On the acoustic correlates of high and low nuclear pitch accents in American English

2010 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yen-Liang Shue ◽  
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel ◽  
Markus Iseli ◽  
Sun-Ah Jun ◽  
Nanette Veilleux ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
American English ◽  
Acoustic Correlates ◽  
Pitch Accents

Acoustic correlates of primary and secondary stress in North American English

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingo Plag ◽  
Gero Kunter ◽  
Mareile Schramm
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
American English ◽  
Secondary Stress ◽  
Acoustic Correlates

scholarly journals Intonational processing is incremental and holistic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timo Benjamin Roettger ◽  
Daniel Turner ◽  
Jennifer Cole
Keyword(s):  
American English ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Perceptual Information ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Incremental Processing ◽  
Communicative Intention ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Tonal Sequence ◽  
Pitch Contours ◽  
Pitch Accents

Speakers modulate the intonation of an utterance to express essential communicative functions, and while intonational pitch contours span entire utterances, intonational melodies can be characterized as a sequence of discrete tonal events. A tonal event may constrain the interpretation of a temporally distant tonal event, and the entire tonal sequence is potentially relevant for recognizing a speaker’s communicative intention. The question arises whether listeners process intonational information as soon as they become available (incremental processing) or whether they wait until they have access to the entire intonation contour with all its tonal events (holistic processing). In a visual world eyetracking experiment, we explored how and when American English listeners integrate a sequence of two pitch accents relative to the discourse status of different referents. Analyses of listeners’ fixation patterns suggest that listeners incrementally process pitch accents as soon as they appear in the signal, and use this information to reduce uncertainty about the referents of both local and downstream expressions. Listeners also process early and late pitch accents in relation to one another, such that early cues in the utterance can restrict later inferences and late cues can be used to resolve uncertainty associated with earlier cues. These findings have implications for models of intonational processing, for which neither a local processing strategy nor a holistic view alone are sufficient. Effective comprehension of intonational events requires maintaining perceptual information long enough to integrate it with downstream intonational events. Open data, scripts, and materials can be retrieved here: https://osf.io/2wecs/.

Acoustic correlates of flaps in North American English

2013 ◽  
Vol 133 (5) ◽  
pp. 3606-3606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Derrick ◽  
Ben Schultz
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
American English ◽  
Acoustic Correlates

Acoustic correlates of word stress: A cross-linguistic survey

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Gordon ◽  
Timo Roettger
Keyword(s):  
American English ◽  
Relative Efficacy ◽  
Acoustic Parameters ◽  
Word Stress ◽  
Acoustic Correlates ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
Relative Robustness

AbstractThe study of the acoustic correlates of word stress has been a fruitful area of phonetic research since the seminal research on American English by Dennis Fry over 50 years ago. This paper presents results of a cross-linguistic survey designed to distill a clearer picture of the relative robustness of different acoustic exponents of what has been referred to as word stress. Drawing on a survey of 110 (sub-) studies on 75 languages, we discuss the relative efficacy of various acoustic parameters in distinguishing stress levels.

scholarly journals Acoustic correlates of American English diphthongs.

1992 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 2421-2421
Author(s):  
Michael Gottfried ◽  
James D. Miller ◽  
D. J. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
American English ◽  
Acoustic Correlates

scholarly journals The prosody of other-repetition in British and North American English

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
American English ◽  
Pitch Contour ◽  
Prosodic Features ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
British English ◽  
Varietal Differences ◽  
Epistemic Access ◽  
Pitch Contours ◽  
Pitch Accents

AbstractThis study explores the link between prosody and other-repetition in a moderately large collection from everyday English talk-in-interaction (n = 200). British English and North American English cases were analysed separately in order to track possible varietal differences. Of initial interest was the question whether focal pitch accents might disambiguate among other-repetition actions, both those related to repair and those that go beyond repair. The results indicate that only two out of six possible other-repetition actions are associated with distinct focal pitch contours in the two varieties. For all other repair and beyond-repair actions speakers use many of the same pitch contours nondistinctively. Overall, falling contours appear more frequently in British other-repetitions, while rising contours are more frequent in North American other-repetitions. In conclusion, it is argued that in addition to pitch contour, prosodic features such as pitch span, loudness, and timing are crucial in distinguishing other-repetition actions, as are nonprosodic factors such as epistemic access (often reflected in oh-prefacing) and visible behavior. (Repair initiation, surprise, challenge, registering, pitch accents, oh-preface, epistemics)*

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document