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Syllable structure and tonal representation : revisiting focal Accent II in Swedish
No full textThis is a study of tonal representation as a function of syllable structure constituency in Swedish. The results of a production experiment indicate that the onset of the focal accent rise – which we suggest to be best represented by a bitonal LH command – is associated with the consonant onset of the post- accented syllable. Furthermore, a vowel insertion is favored in certain intervocalic consonant clusters. In light of these findings, as well a parallel study on Greek, we claim: (1) syllabification is a basic prerequisite condition in tonal analysis and intonation studies, (2) tonal targets may define syllable boundaries and hence syllabification and (3) different tonal targets may be associated with different syllable structure constituents in different languages.Funktions- och produktionsbaserad modellering av svensk prosodi/ Function- and production-based modeling of Swedish prosod
A data-driven approach to detection of interruptions in human-human conversations
No full textWe report the results of our initial ef- forts towards automatic detection of user’s interruptions in a spoken human– machine dialogue. In a first step, we explored the use of automatically ex- tractable acoustic features, frequency and intensity, in discriminating listen- er’s interruptions in human–human conversations. A preliminary analysis of interaction snippets from the HCRC Map Task corpus suggests that for the task at hand, intensity is a stronger fea- ture than frequency, and using intensity in combination with feature loudness offers the best results for a k-means clustering algorith
Word accent gestures in West Swedish
Get PDFThe generally accepted knowledge of the word accent manifestations in West Swedish (prototype Gothenburg) predicts a specific pattern of the word accent gestures common to a great variety of dialects within Götaland. The generally accepted picture of the word accent distinction is that it is clearly manifested in the different pitch contours. The main purpose of the present study was to verify this and gain further insight into how the distinction is manifested in West Swedish. Contrary to our predictions, the nine different dialects examined showed no clear word accent distinction concerning the timing and shape of the pitch contours
Prosodic boundaries and discourse structure in Kammu
No full textThe main function of sentence intonation in Kammu is to mark prosodic boundaries. There is no additional tonal marking of focus. It is of particular in- terest that the underlying intonation system is the same for both tonal (Northern Kammu) and non-tonal (Eastern Kammu) dialects. Prosodic boundaries in Kammu have three func- tions: they mark prosodic phrases, focus and speaker engagement. In this study we show that relationships between boundaries in terms of upstepping or its absence interact with information and discourse structure. This relationship has the same pattern in both tonal and non-tonal Kammu
Phonetic methods in cat vocalisation studies: A report from the Meowsic project
No full textPaper presented at FONETIK 2019, 10-12 June 2019, Stockhol
Preaspiration in Old Mongolian?
No full textIn this article, I present evidence that Old Mongolian had preaspirated stops and affricates, like modern Halh Mongolian. The evidence consists of a number of historical phonological processes where two consonants on either side of a vowel interact with each other, and which are best explained by the assumption that the preceding consonant is postaspirated and the following one is preaspirated
Orthographic cues for quantity distinctions in L2
No full textPaper presented at FONETIK 2019, 10-12 June 2019, Stockhol
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