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Prosodic signalling of (un)expected information in South Swedish : an interactive manipulation experiment

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Author

  • Gilbert Ambrazaitis

Editor

  • Rüdiger Hoffmann
  • Hansjörg Mixdorff

Summary, in English

Starting from the German pitch peak timing categories and their communicative functions, it is asked how these functions would be expressed in South Swedish. The aim is to get a first impression as regards potentially relevant prosodic parameters associated with the expression of expected vs. unexpected information in South Swedish. For that, an interactive manipulation experiment is conducted, where subjects manipulate the pitch contour and duration of monosyllabic test utterances until the sound output adequately represents a given communicative function. Swedish has a tonal word accent distinction, and all test words have accent 1, normally produced with an early pitch fall. It is thus hypothesized that in South Swedish, expected vs. unexpected information will not be expressed through a different pitch peak timing, as in German. The results indeed clearly hint at unexpected information being signalled by means of a higher, rather than a later pitch peak.

Department/s

Publishing year

2006

Language

English

Pages

911-914

Publication/Series

Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation

Volume

40

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

TUDPress

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • word accent
  • unexpected
  • expected
  • pitch
  • timing
  • swedish
  • prosody
  • attitude

Conference name

Speech Prosody 2006

Conference date

2006-05-02 - 2006-05-05

Conference place

Dresden, Germany

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0940-6832