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Dip and hat pattern: a phonological contrast of German?

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Author

  • Gilbert Ambrazaitis
  • Oliver Niebuhr

Summary, in English

Is the high plateau in a ‘hat pattern’ a phonetic artefact, or does it reflect a phonological feature? Can it contrast with a low plateau, i.e., a ‘dip pattern’? The presented perception experiment supports the phonological point of view, since it shows that the dip/hat contrast can disambiguate German oder-constructions, which are interpretable as ‘alternative’ or ‘yes/no-questions’. This specific function may be derived from a more general substance–function relation: While a hat pattern has a ‘bracketing function’, a dip signals detachment.

Department/s

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • bracketing function
  • perception
  • alternative question
  • phonetics
  • phonology
  • AM
  • KIM
  • intonation model
  • hat pattern
  • concatenation

Conference name

4th Conference on Speech Prosody

Conference date

2008-05-07

Conference place

Campinas, Brazil

Status

Published