On the Prosodic Expression of Pragmatic Prominence: The Case of Pitch Register Lowering in Akan
On the Prosodic Expression of Pragmatic Prominence: The Case of Pitch Register Lowering in Akan
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DOI：
10.1177/0023830911422182
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发表时间：
2012-09
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
F. Kügler;S. Genzel
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作者：
F. Kügler;S. Genzel
本文介绍了三个生产实验的数据，调查的韵律手段编码信息结构的阿坎语，声调的语言，属于夸分支的刚果家庭，讲在加纳。信息结构是通过上下文问题引出的，这些问题将目标词置于广泛的、信息性的或纠正性的焦点中，或者在其中一个实验中也将目标词置于焦点前或焦点后的位置，使其呈现为给定的。在目标词上测量韵律参数F0和时长。持续时间并不总是受到信息结构的影响，但与预测相反，高（H）和低（L）音提高在异位（前置）焦点结构，我们发现一个显着较低的实现下，在异位和原位焦点结构的校正焦点的H和L音。给予性似乎没有韵律标记。研究结果表明，语用突显是通过偏离无标记韵律结构来表达的。因此，结果与预测更多努力导致更高F0目标的正相关性的努力代码的观点相矛盾。
This article presents data from three production experiments investigating the prosodic means of encoding information structure in Akan, a tone language that belongs to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family, spoken in Ghana. Information structure was elicited via context questions that put target words either in wide, informational, or corrective focus, or in one of the experiments also in pre-focal or post-focal position rendering it as given. The prosodic parameters F0 and duration were measured on the target words. Duration is not consistently affected by information structure, but contrary to the prediction that High (H) and Low (L) tones are raised in ex situ (fronted) focus constructions we found a significantly lower realization of both H and L tones under corrective focus in ex situ and in situ focus constructions. Givenness does not seem to be marked prosodically. The data suggest that pragmatic prominence is expressed prosodically by means of a deviation from an unmarked prosodic structure. Results are thus contradicting the view of the effort code that predicts a positive correlation of more effort resulting in higher F0 targets.