The interaction of pitch accent and gesture production
The interaction of pitch accent and gesture production
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音调重音和手势产生的相互作用
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2013
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A. Ott
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D. Brentari;G. Marotta;Ilaria Margherita;A. Ott
本文探讨了手势和言语突显在两个不同的语言社区-意大利语和美国英语中的表现方式。控制和自由的叙述，引起了三个成年美国女性（中西部品种）和三个成年意大利女性（佛罗伦萨品种），并使用一种方法进行分析，旨在测量与音高口音，那些手势，并在自然发生的语音对齐的两个在一起的属性。结果表明，美国人和意大利人之间有一些重要的相似之处，也有一些差异。在音高重音不完全包含在手势范围内的情况下，两组人都倾向于在音高重音出现之前做出手势，这证实了以前的工作。这两组人绝大多数都使用手的手动手势作为标志性手势。有一个不同的韵律手势的表达：虽然美国和意大利的群体产生了更多的韵律手势的手比身体，意大利人表现出更强的偏好这样做。说英语的人的元音也比说意大利语的人更容易受到手势的影响。本研究结果中发现的趋势表明，手势的属性和对齐可能存在跨语言差异，但需要更大的参与者群体才能确定地得出这一结论，因为受试者之间存在高度的差异。在意大利语和美国英语中，这些数据提供了证据，证明存在一个多模态系统，包括语音和协同语音手势，构成一个完整的韵律系统的语言。
This article addresses the way that gesture and speech prominence are manifest in two different linguistic communities – Italian and American English. Controlled and free narratives were elicited from three adult American females (Midwestern variety) and three adult Italian females (Florentine variety) and analyzed using a method designed to measure the properties associated with pitch accents, those of gestures, and the alignment of the two together in naturally occurring speech. The results suggest some important similarities as well as some differences between American and Italian speak ers. In cases where the pitch accent is not totally contained within the domain of the gesture, both groups tended to produce gestures that preceded the onset of the pitch accent, confirming previous work. Both groups overwhelmingly also used manual gestures of the hands for iconic gestures. There was a difference in the expression of prosodic gestures: while both American and Italian groups produced a greater number of prosodic gestures with the hands than the body, the Italians exhibited a stronger preference to do so. The vowels of the English speakers were also more affected by the presence of a gesture than those of the Italian speakers. The trends found in the results of this study suggest that there may be cross-linguistic differences in the properties and alignment of gestures, but larger groups of participants will be needed to conclude this with certainty, since there was a high degree of between-subject variation. In both Ital ian and US English, these data provide evidence for the existence of one, multi-modal system involving speech and co-speech gestures that constitutes an integrated prosodic system of a language.