Kategorie: Phonologie

We are happy to announce the next talk in the phonology colloquium by Nele Ots (Goethe Universität): Title: Conceptual and linguistic influences on sentence intonation: evidence from English and Estonian languages Room: IG 4.301 Date: Wed 11.12.19 Time: 16-18 Abstract: Phonetic corpus studies have found that phrase-initial F0 peaks correlate with duration of intonation phrases, indicating that speakers are able to anticipate the length of their utterances already before the speech onset. The current view on sentence planning is that while conceptual and syntactic planning processes can be broad, comprising larger parts of upcoming sentences, phonological encoding needs to evolve word by word - incrementally. In relation to sentence production, the phonetic observation of F0 raises a question: at which stage are the global parameters of sentence intonation decided in speakers' minds? The aim of the study was to empirically verify the causal relationship between the F0 peaks and the duration of intonation phrases, and to explore the online sentence formulation in two typologically different languages...