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On final rises and fall-rises in German and Swedish

På svenska

Author

  • Gilbert Ambrazaitis

Editor

  • Anders Eriksson
  • Jonas Lindh

Summary, in English

This study explores the intonational signalling of a ‘request address’ in German and Swedish. Data from 16 speakers (9 Germans, 7 Swedes) were elicited under controlled conditions, and intonation contours produced on the test phrase “Wallander?” were classified according to

their phrase-final pattern. Both ‘rises’ and ‘fall-rises’ were produced frequently by both Germans and Swedes, which is in line with Ohala’s frequency code, but challenging for the Lund model of Swedish intonation.

Department/s

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

81-84

Publication/Series

Proceedings FONETIK 2008

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Department of Linguistics, Gothenburg University

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • intonation
  • prosody
  • frequency code
  • Lund model
  • nuclear tone

Conference name

FONETIK 2008

Conference date

2008-06-11 - 2008-06-13

Conference place

Gothenburg, Sweden

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-91-977196-0-5