Phonetics and phonology of thematic contrast in German
Phonetics and phonology of thematic contrast in German
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DOI：
10.1177/00238309060490040201
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发表时间：
2006-01-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Braun, Bettina
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作者：
Braun, Bettina
对比在理解语篇和信息结构方面起着重要作用。一般认为，对比只能通过语调来体现，但我们对对比的语调实现的理解是有限的。对于德语来说，主要有内省的证据表明，上升的主题重音（或主题重音）在表示对比时与不表示对比时的实现方式不同。在这篇文章中，报告的印象差异的声学基础上的缩放（高度）和对齐（定位）的音调目标。被试阅读目标句子在对比和非对比的情况下（实验1）。韵律注释表明，主题重音在两种语境中的重音类型不同，但声学比较表明，对比语境中的主题呈现出更高和更晚的峰值。因此，口音的排列和缩放可以以一种语言学上有意义的方式进行控制，这对语调音系学有影响。在实验2中，非语言学家的感知的一个子集的生产数据进行了评估。他们必须选择在对比语境中，假设的对比或非对比实现句子是否更合适。仅对某些句子对，受试者有明显的偏好。实验3中，一组语言学家对实验2中使用的相同数据的对比和非对比版本的主题重音进行了注释。在标签上存在相当大的分歧，但当两个版本在F0偏移方面存在很大差异时，始终使用不同的重音类型。尽管对比语境中的主位产生方式明显不同于非对比语境中的主位，但这种差异并不容易被感知或注释。
It is acknowledged that contrast plays an important role in understanding discourse and information structure. While it is commonly assumed that contrast can be marked by intonation only, our understanding of the intonational realization of contrast is limited. For German there is mainly introspective evidence that the rising theme accent (or topic accent) is realized differently when signaling contrast than when not. In this article, the acoustic basis for the reported impressionistic differences is investigated in terms of the scaling (height) and alignment (positioning) of tonal targets.Subjects read target sentences in a contrastive and a noncontrastive context (Experiment 1). Prosodic annotation revealed that thematic accents were not realized with different accent types in the two contexts but acoustic comparison showed that themes in contrastive context exhibited a higher and later peak. The alignment and scaling of accents can hence be controlled in a linguistically meaningful way, which has implications for intonational phonology. In Experiment 2, nonlinguists' perception of a subset of the production data was assessed. They had to choose whether, in a contrastive context, the presumed contrastive or noncontrastive realization of a sentence was more appropriate. For some sentence pairs only, subjects had a clear preference. For Experiment 3, a group of linguists annotated the thematic accents of the contrastive and noncontrastive versions of the same data as used in Experiment 2. There was considerable disagreement in labels, but different accent types were consistently used when the two versions differed strongly in F0 excursion. Although themes in contrastive contexts were clearly produced differently than themes in noncontrastive contexts, this difference is not easily perceived or annotated.