An Auditory Analysis of the Prosody of Fast and Slow Speech Styles in English, Dutch and German

2003 ◽  
pp. 204-217
Author(s):  
Alex Monaghan
Keyword(s):  
Speech Styles ◽  
Auditory Analysis ◽  
Slow Speech

scholarly journals “It makes It the Market”

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
Canaan Zengyu Lan
Keyword(s):  
Third Wave ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Speech Styles ◽  
Food Market ◽  
Auditory Analysis

Food-market speech is an under-researched area of third-wave variationist sociolinguistic studies. This study addresses the gap by exploring food-market speech styles and hawker personae. Combining descriptive auditory analysis and online questionnaire data, I demonstrate that situated discursive practices of prosodic variables construct both persuasive and aggressive speech styles, and they are stereotypically associated with female and male hawker personae. Furthermore, this paper also explores the ideological construal of hawking as authentic market-ness, further revealing the semiotic saliency and social significance of food-market hawking as not only the language of a speech community but the language of market.

scholarly journals Ejectives in Scottish English: A social perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Owen McCarthy ◽  
Jane Stuart-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Socioeconomic Background ◽  
Speech Styles ◽  
Single Sex ◽  
High School Girls ◽  
The Social ◽  
School Girls ◽  
Relevant Word ◽  
Auditory Analysis ◽  
Casual Speech

This paper presents the results of an analysis of the realization of word-final /k/ in a sample of read and casual speech by 28 female pupils from a single-sex Glaswegian high school. Girls differed in age, socioeconomic background, and ethnicity. Ejectives were the most usual variant for /k/ in both speech styles, occurring in the speech of every pupil in our sample. Our narrow auditory analysis revealed a continuum of ejective production, from weak to intense stops. Results from multinomial logistic regression show that ejective production is promoted by phonetic, linguistic and interactional factors: ejectives were used more in read speech, when /k/ occurred in the /-ŋk/ cluster (e.g.tank), and when the relevant word was either at the end of a clause or sentence, or in turn-final position. At the same time, significant interactions between style, and position in turn, and the social factors of age and ethnicity, show that the use of ejectives by these girls is subject to a fine degree of sociolinguistic control, alongside interactional factors. Finally, cautious comparison of these data with recordings made in 1997 suggests that these results may also reflect a sound change in progress, given the very substantial real-time increase in ejective realizations of /k/ in Glasgow over the past fourteen years.

Schwa Deletion in Word-Initial Syllables of Polysyllabic Words

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaru Wu ◽  
Martine Adda-Decker ◽  
Lori Lamel
Keyword(s):  
Speech Styles ◽  
Casual Speech

This study aims to analyse factors that could influence schwa deletion in word-initial syllables of polysyllabic words in continuous French speech. Both phonological and extralinguistic factors were considered: number of consonants, post-lexical context, speech style, sex and profession. Three large corpora covering different speech styles were explored using forced alignment with optional schwa variants. Formal journalistic ESTER corpus, conversational journalistic ETAPE corpus and casual speech NCCFr corpus were used in this study. We observe that schwa tends to be deleted more for 2C-words than for 3C-words. Words preceded by a consonant or a pause tend to prevent schwa deletion whereas words preceded by a vowel tend to facilitate schwa deletion. The less formal the speech style is, the more schwas are deleted. Males tend to delete schwas more frequently than females. Interestingly, journalists tend to delete more schwas than politicians in our data.

scholarly journals The acquisition of lexical tones by Cantonese–English bilingual children

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1357-1376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggy Pik Ki MOK ◽  
Albert LEE
Keyword(s):  
Stress Pattern ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Phonological Development ◽  
Lexical Tones ◽  
English Bilingual ◽  
Pitch Pattern ◽  
Linguistic Transfer ◽  
Auditory Analysis ◽  
Early Interaction ◽  
Time Point

AbstractPrevious studies on bilingual children found intact tonal development at the initial stages of interaction between Cantonese and English in successive bilingual children, whereas children exposed to both languages from birth have not been studied in this regard. We examined the production of Cantonese tones by five simultaneous bilingual children longitudinally at 2;0 and 2;6, and compared them with age-matched monolingual children using auditory analysis. Our results showed that some bilingual children had a delay at 2;0, compared to their monolingual peers. Some bilingual children also exhibited a ‘high–low’ template in their production, resembling the pitch pattern of English trochaic words. These findings suggest a possible early interaction of the Cantonese and English prosodic systems in which bilingual children adopted the English stress pattern in Cantonese production. The time-point along the trajectory of phonological development is important in modulating whether cross-linguistic transfer can be observed.

scholarly journals Exploring the role of auditory analysis in atypical compared to typical language development

2014 ◽  
Vol 308 ◽  
pp. 129-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manon Grube ◽  
Freya E. Cooper ◽  
Sukhbinder Kumar ◽  
Tom Kelly ◽  
Timothy D. Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Auditory Analysis

An interdisciplinary sound classification framework for environmental sound design

2021 ◽  
Vol 263 (5) ◽  
pp. 1130-1141
Author(s):  
Kivanc Kitapci ◽  
Dogukan Ozdemir
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Design Framework ◽  
Sound Design ◽  
Environmental Sound ◽  
Sound Classification ◽  
Sensory Interactions ◽  
Auditory Analysis

One of the objectives of architectural design is to create multi-sensory environments. The users are under the influence of a wide variety and intense perceptual data flow when users experience a designed space. Architects and environmental designers should not ignore the sense of hearing, one of the most important of the five primitive senses that allow us to experience the physical environment within the framework of creative thinking from the first stage of the design process. Today, auditory analysis of spaces has been studied under architectural acoustics, soundscapes, multi-sensory interactions, and sense of place. However, the current sound design methods implemented in the film and video game industries and industrial design have not been used in architectural design practices. Sound design is the art and application of making soundtracks in various disciplines and it involves recognizing, acquiring, or developing of auditory components. This research aims to establish a holistic architectural sound design framework based on the previous sound classification and taxonomic models found in the literature. The proposed sound design framework will help the architects and environmental designers classify the sound elements in the built environment and provide holistic environmental sound design guidelines depending on the spaces' functions and context.

scholarly journals Prosodic organization of English folk riddles and the mechanism of their decoding

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 153-166
Author(s):  
Larysa Taranenko
Keyword(s):  
Characteristic Feature ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Specific Interaction ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Compositional Structure ◽  
Auditory Analysis ◽  
Model Formation ◽  
Phonetic Study ◽  
Methodological Ground

The paper advances a cognitive model representing a creative mechanism of riddle decoding by its recipient, which serves as a theoretical and methodological ground for the experimental phonetic study of prosodic means that organize the text of a riddle. Within the process of cognitive model formation the author performs a conceptual analysis of the riddle compositional structure, presented as a systemic algorithmic scheme. It is confirmed that a characteristic feature of a folk riddle is its division into two elements: the first one is the description of an object, further differentiated into “topic” and “commentary”, while the second one is the riddle answer, or solution, generated directly in the recipient’s mind as a result of his/her mental activities. The carried out auditory analysis proves that such a limitation of the riddle’s structure is compensated by a set of prosodic means and their specific interaction, which trigger creative and cognitive processes in the recipient’s mind aimed at searching for the riddle solution.

scholarly journals Speech Styles Used By Bagas as the Main Character in Pakai Hati the Series

K ta Kita ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-194
Author(s):  
Nathania Edlyn Sosrohartono
Keyword(s):  
Personality Type ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Speech Styles ◽  
Web Series ◽  
Formal Style

This study aims to find the speech styles used by Bagas as the main character in Pakai Hati The Series when he talked to his colleagues, clients, and supervisors.  In conducting this study, I used the theory of speech styles by Chaer and Agustina (2010), standard Indonesian characteristics by Prihantini (2015) and Kridalaksana (2007), social dimension by Holmes (2017), and status by Brown and Attardo (2005) as the theoretical framework. This study employed a qualitative approach. From the analysis, I found that Bagas used the consultative style, casual style, and intimate style when talking to his colleagues, clients, and bosses. He also used the formal style towards his clients, but he did not use the frozen style when talking to his interlocutors. This study showed that Bagas did not differentiate his speech style merely based on status since there were some other factors that might affect his choice of speech style, namely: habit or personality, type or context of the conversation, and social distance.Keywords: speech styles, status, web series

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