The phonetics and phonology of high and low tones in two falling f0-contours in standard German

Tamara Rathcke; Jonathan Harrington

The phonetics and phonology of high and low tones in two falling f0-contours in standard German

Tamara Rathcke^*, Jonathan Harrington

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The present paper reports the results of an imitation experiment developed to evaluate empirically the validity of the AM-analyses given for two falling f0-patterns in German by different researchers. We look at the phonetic realisations of temporal alignment and frequency scaling of high and low tonal targets in varying syllabic environments. The effects of two phonetic factors were tested: (1) syllable structure of the postnuclear part of a phrase and (2) syllabic structure of the nuclear syllable. The results show that scaling and alignment are affected by the investigated factors in an unexpected way, so that predictions from different AM-analyses could not be confirmed by the data. We discussed the implications of the results in the light of the proposed analyses.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007
Pages	1257-1260
Number of pages	4
Volume	2
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	Interspeech Conference 2007 - Antwerp, Belgium Duration: 27 Aug 2007 → 31 Aug 2007

Conference

Conference	Interspeech Conference 2007
Country/Territory	Belgium
City	Antwerp
Period	27/08/07 → 31/08/07

Keywords

Autosegmental-metrical phonology
Frequency scaling
Pitch accent
Temporal alignment

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The phonetics and phonology of high and low tones in two falling f0-contours in standard German. / Rathcke, Tamara; Harrington, Jonathan.
International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007. Vol. 2 2007. p. 1257-1260.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

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