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Alignment of Medial and Late Peaks in German Spontaneous Speech

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Author

  • Oliver Niebuhr
  • Gilbert Ambrazaitis

Editor

  • Rüdiger Hoffmann
  • Hansjörg Mixdorff

Summary, in English

Starting from a corpus of German spontaneous speech, the phonetic realisations of the two KIM categories medial and late peak were investigated in prenuclear position. The results show that, for both categories, the onset of the rising F0 movement (L) is comparably aligned around the accented-syllable onset, whereas the F0 maximum (H) is independently aligned and predominantly located before the accented-syllable offset or after the onset of the following unaccented syllable, respectively. The data further suggest that also from the AM point of view the two prenuclear rises are different at the phonological level. Finally, the possibility is pointed out that the alignment patterns found for prenuclear rises in other studies are to some extent due to a combination of categories like the medial and late peak.

Department/s

Publishing year

2006

Language

English

Pages

161-164

Publication/Series

Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation Band 40: Speech Prosody - 3rd International Conference. Abstract Book and CD-ROM Proceedings

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

TUDPress

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • accent
  • prenuclear
  • late peak
  • medial peak
  • spontaneous speech
  • German
  • alignment
  • F0
  • prosody
  • intonation

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0940-6832