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Audio files referred to in Roettger, Timo B. (2017). Tonal Placement in Tashlhiyt - How an intonation system accommodates to adverse phonological environments.
No full text<p>Audio files referred to in Roettger, Timo B. (2017). Tonal Placement in Tashlhiyt - How an intonation system accommodates to adverse phonological environments. Berlin: Language Science Press (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.814472)</p>
Word final schwa is driven by intonation - The case of Bari Italian
No full textIn order to convey pragmatic functions, a speaker has to select an intonation contour (the tune) in
addition to the words that are to be spoken (the text). The tune and text are assumed to be independent
of each other, such that any one intonation contour can be produced on different phrases,
regardless of the number and nature of the segments they are made up of. However, if the segmental
string is too short, certain tunes—especially those with a rising component—call for adjustments
to the text. In Italian, for instance, loan words such as “chat” can be produced with a word final
schwa when this word occurs at the end of a question. This paper investigates this word final schwa
in the Bari variety in a number of different intonation contours. Although its presence and duration
is to some extent dependent on idiosyncratic properties of speakers and words, schwa is largely
conditioned by intonation. Schwa cannot thus be considered a mere phonetic artefact, since it is relevant
for phonology, in that it facilitates the production of communicatively relevant intonation
contours
Tune-text negotiation: the effect of intonation on vowel duration
No full textIn the variety of Italian spoken in Bari, polar questions
typically have a complex rising-falling(-rising)
tune, extending from the last lexical stress to the end
of the phrase, whereas statements have a low-falling
tune. When polar questions end in a word with final
stress, the realization of the complex tune has little
time to unfold and thus risks being impoverished.
We conducted a production study to investigate
how speakers realize these two tunes on words with
final open syllables that are stressed (sofà [so'fa]
‘sofa’) or unstressed (palo ['palo] ‘pole’). Results
show that when the final vowel is stressed, its duration
is considerably longer in questions than in
statements (β = 111ms). We interpret this to mean
that the realization of the intonation contour is facilitated
by extra duration on the vowel, thus providing
evidence for tonally conditioned adjustments
to segment durations
Manual Response Dynamics Reflect Rapid Integration of Intonational Information during Reference Resolution
No full textPilot study to explore mousetracking for prosody-based reference resolution:
Roettger, Timo B. & Stoeber, Mathias (accepted). Manual Response dynamics reflect rapid integration of intonational information during reference resolution. Proceedings of 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. London: Cognitive Science Society
Manual Response Dynamics Reflect Rapid Integration of Intonational Information during Reference Resolution
No full textPilot study to explore mousetracking for prosody-based reference resolution:
Roettger, Timo B. & Stoeber, Mathias (accepted). Manual Response dynamics reflect rapid integration of intonational information during reference resolution. Proceedings of 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. London: Cognitive Science Society
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Tonal placement in Tashlhiyt: How an intonation system accommodates to adverse phonological environments
Full text linkIn most languages, words contain vowels, elements of high intensity with rich harmonic structure, enabling the perceptual retrieval of pitch. By contrast, in Tashlhiyt, a Berber language, words can be composed entirely of voiceless segments. When an utterance consists of such words, the phonetic opportunity for the execution of intonational pitch movements is exceptionally limited. This book explores in a series of production and perception experiments how these typologically rare phonotactic patterns interact with intonational aspects of linguistic structure. It turns out that Tashlhiyt allows for a tremendously flexible placement of tonal events. Observed intonational structures can be conceived of as different solutions to a functional dilemma: The requirement to realise meaningful pitch movements in certain positions and the extent to which segments lend themselves to a clear manifestation of these pitch movements
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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