Methods in prosody: A Romance language perspective

Contents......Page 5
  Introduction Ingo Feldhausen, Jan Fliessbach & Maria del Mar Vanrell......Page 7
  Foreword Pilar Prieto......Page 11
I Large corpora and spontaneous speech......Page 19
1 Introduction......Page 21
2.1 Joint collection......Page 23
2.3 Internet as a corpus......Page 25
3.1 Automatic orthographic transcription and segmentation......Page 26
3.2 Phonetic transcription and segmentation......Page 27
3.3 Automatic segmentation of prosodic units......Page 29
3.4 Prosodic annotation......Page 31
3.5 Annotation of other linguistic information......Page 38
3.6 An example of automatic annotation: The Glissando corpus......Page 39
4 Measurement and analysis......Page 40
5.1 Analysis of pitch patterns in Spanish neutral speech......Page 45
5.2 Analysis of pitch patterns in Mandarin Chinese......Page 49
5.3 Analysis of pitch patterns in Spanish emotional speech......Page 51
6 Conclusions......Page 55
1 Introduction......Page 63
2.1 ``Strongly stressed'' PS......Page 67
2.2 ``Emphatic'' and other PS......Page 69
3.1 Corpus......Page 72
3.2 ToBI labeling......Page 73
4 Results......Page 78
4.1 Pronominal subjects as focus......Page 79
4.2 Pronominal subjects as Topics......Page 81
5 Conclusion......Page 91
II Approaches to prosodic analysis......Page 99
1 Introduction......Page 101
2.1 Introduction......Page 106
2.2 Methods for data collection and analysis: some examples......Page 107
2.3 Advantages and disadvantages of the methods presented......Page 118
3.1 Introduction......Page 120
3.2 Methods for data collection and analysis: some examples......Page 123
3.3 Advantages and disadvantages of the methods presented......Page 127
4 Conclusions......Page 130
1 The phonological perspective: Competing motivations of prosodic devices......Page 141
2 The project and a short overview over the method of data elicitation......Page 146
3.1 The challenge: determining prosodic constellations on empirical grounds......Page 148
3.2 Goals of the present contribution......Page 150
3.3 Methodology – annotation......Page 151
3.3.1 Syllables......Page 152
3.3.2 Information structural annotation......Page 154
3.3.3 Positional annotation......Page 156
3.4.1 Absolute measurements......Page 158
3.4.2 Relative measurements......Page 159
3.5 Putting things into interaction......Page 161
3.6 The realizational coefficient......Page 162
4.1 Prominent syllables: Penultima......Page 163
4.2 Word length......Page 165
4.3.1 F0......Page 169
4.3.2 Duration......Page 171
4.4 Information structural categories......Page 173
5 Discussion – what we’ve got, what needs to be done and what’s feasible......Page 174
5 On the role of prosody in disambiguating wh-exclamatives and wh-interrogatives in Cosenza Italian Olga Kellert, Daniele Panizza & Caterina Petrone......Page 183
1 Introduction......Page 184
2 Previous investigations of the prosody of wh-exclamatives and wh-interrogatives......Page 186
4.1 Experimental stimuli......Page 189
4.2 Tasks and procedure......Page 191
5.1 Identification task......Page 193
5.2 Reaction Times (RTs)......Page 194
6 Discussion and conclusions......Page 196
7 Benefits and challenges of the chosen method......Page 198
III Elicitation methods......Page 207
1 Introduction......Page 209
1.1 Research paradigms in empirical research in prosody......Page 210
1.2 The Discourse Completion Task in research on pragmatics......Page 213
2 Use of the DCT in Romance prosody research......Page 216
3.1 Proposals for improving the DCT in pragmatic research......Page 224
3.2 Proposals for improving the DCT in Romance prosody research......Page 226
3.3 Proposals for complementing the DCT with further methods (triangulation)......Page 231
4 Conclusions......Page 232
1 Introduction......Page 247
2.1 Phonetic description......Page 251
2.1.2 Interrogação (`Yes/No question')......Page 255
2.1.4 Desafio (`threat, challenge')......Page 257
2.1.5 Alerta (`warning')......Page 258
2.1.6 Sugestão (`suggestion')......Page 259
2.1.7 Pedido (`request')......Page 260
2.2 Close-copies of intonation contours......Page 261
2.3 Importance of other acoustic parameters of prosody......Page 263
3 Perception tests......Page 264
3.1 Categorical recognition......Page 265
3.2 Quality of the performance......Page 266
4 Discussion......Page 269
5 Conclusions......Page 274
Name index......Page 281
Language index......Page 287
Subject index......Page 289