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The prosody of contrastive topics in Southern Swedish

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Author

Editor

  • Anders Eriksson
  • Åsa Abelin

Summary, in English

This paper presents a pilot study on the prosodic marking of a contrastive topic in Southern Swedish. A test sentence was elicited in three experimental conditions: initial focus; final focus; contrastive topic (initial word) plus focus (final word). F0 patterns were analysed in recordings of 10 speakers. A majority of the speakers distinguished clearly between the conditions, but speakers employed different strategies. The most common one involved modifying the range and/or level of the F0 patterns given by the lexical pitch accents. Another frequent strategy involved a rising pitch accent on the initial word, where the lexical pitch accent would normally stipulate a fall. This result was unexpected and indicates that Southern Swedish sentence intonation might be more complex than typically assumed.

Department/s

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

1-4

Publication/Series

Proceedings FONETIK 2012 : The XXVth Swedish Phonetics Conference, May 30–June 1, 2012

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

University of Gothenburg

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • intonation
  • pragmatics
  • information structure
  • pitch accent

Conference name

FONETIK 2012

Conference date

2012-05-30 - 2012-06-01

Conference place

Gothenburg, Sweden

Status

Published

Project

  • Function- and production-based modeling of Swedish prosody

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-91-637-0985-2