Kunter Compound Stress in English

The Phonetics and Phonology of Prosodic Prominence
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-025470-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 539, 237 Seiten

Reihe: Linguistische Arbeiten

This volume addresses several claims about the two prominence patterns found in English nominal compounds in a rigorously empirical way. Listener proficiency to identify these patterns is investigated, and the acoustic properties that distinguish the patterns are identified. These properties are used to predict statistically the prominence pattern of any given compound. The book further analyzes the semantic and structural factors influencing the distribution of the prominence patterns, and addresses the extent of within- and across-speaker variability in English compound stress assignment.

Zielgruppe

Germanisten, Sprachwissenschaftler, Bibliotheken, Institute / Academics (German Studies, Linguistics), Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kunter, Gero

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;Acknowledgements;12
3;1 Introduction;14
4;2 Compounds, stress and prominence: concepts and issues;18
4.1;2.1 What is a compound?;18
4.2;2.2 Prominence patterns in compounds;21
4.3;2.3 Prominence in the autosegmental-metrical framework;24
5;3 The corpus;29
6;4 Perception of compound prominence patterns;33
6.1;4.1 Introduction;33
6.2;4.2 Pretest;36
6.3;4.3 Method;38
6.3.1;4.3.1 Participants;38
6.3.2;4.3.2 Stimuli;39
6.3.3;4.3.3 Procedure;39
6.4;4.4 Results;41
6.4.1;4.4.1 Overall results;42
6.4.2;4.4.2 Intrarater reliability;44
6.4.3;4.4.3 Perception ratings by items;53
6.4.4;4.4.4 Summary of results;61
6.5;4.5 Discussion;61
7;5 Acoustic correlates of compound prominence;70
7.1;5.1 Previous research;72
7.1.1;5.1.1 Pitch and fundamental frequency;73
7.1.2;5.1.2 Loudness, intensity and spectral balance;77
7.1.3;5.1.3 Duration;80
7.1.4;5.1.4 Non-modal phonation;82
7.1.5;5.1.5 Summary and research questions;83
7.2;5.2 Material and measurements;85
7.2.1;5.2.1 Pitch measurements;87
7.2.2;5.2.2 Duration;91
7.2.3;5.2.3 Intensity;91
7.2.4;5.2.4 Spectral balance;92
7.2.5;5.2.5 Non-modal phonation;92
7.3;5.3 Procedure;95
7.4;5.4 Results;98
7.5;5.5 Discussion;106
8;6 Classification and prediction of compound prominence patterns;113
8.1;6.1 Data;114
8.1.1;6.1.1 Automatic measurement procedure and evaluation;115
8.1.2;6.1.2 Vowel-intrinsic properties;118
8.1.3;6.1.3 Summary of acoustic measurements;120
8.2;6.2 Prediction of median prominence ratings;121
8.2.1;6.2.1 Predictors in the regression analysis;121
8.2.2;6.2.2 Regression analysis;125
8.2.3;6.2.3 Predictions for the Boston corpus;134
8.3;6.3 Classification of the Boston corpus;138
8.3.1;6.3.1 Training set;140
8.3.2;6.3.2 Model application and evaluation;143
9;7 What determines compound prominence patterns?;146
9.1;7.1 Methodology;147
9.2;7.2 Hypothesis testing with unbalanced data;150
9.3;7.3 The structural hypothesis;152
9.4;7.4 The semantic hypothesis;164
9.5;7.5 Structural and semantic hypotheses combined;171
9.6;7.6 Analogical effects;174
9.7;7.7 General discussion;182
10;8 Within- and across-speaker variation;187
10.1;8.1 Methodology;189
10.2;8.2 Within-speaker variability;193
10.2.1;8.2.1 Data;193
10.2.2;8.2.2 Results;194
10.2.3;8.2.3 Discussion;198
10.3;8.3 Across-speaker variability;201
10.3.1;8.3.1 Data;204
10.3.2;8.3.2 Results;205
10.3.3;8.3.3 Discussion;210
10.4;8.4 General discussion;213
11;9 Conclusion;215
12;A Introduction to linear regression and mixed-effects models;220
13;B NOUN + NOUN compounds used in the variability study;223
14;References;226

Über Autor(innen)

Gero Kunter, University of Siegen, Germany.