The nature and use of Icelandic prenuclear and nuclear pitch accents : evidence from F0 alignment and syllable/segment duration

Dehé, Nicole

The nature and use of Icelandic prenuclear and nuclear pitch accents : evidence from F0 alignment and syllable/segment duration

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2010

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Journal article

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Nordic Journal of Linguistics ; 33 (2010), 1. - pp. 31-65. - ISSN 0332-5865

Abstract

Two production studies and one perception study were designed to systematically test F0 alignment and segment duration in Icelandic pitch accents with a view to investigating previous claims about the inventory of distinct intonational categories. Four different conditions were tested: (i) prenuclear pitch accents, (ii) nuclear accents in sentence-final position in sentences with either broad focus or (iii) with final narrow focus, and (iv) nuclear narrow focus accents in non-final position. The alignment results are such that (i) prenuclear accents are signalled by a late rise (L*H), while final nuclear accents are signalled by an early rise; (ii) F0 peaks in prefinal nuclear accents are aligned earlier than in prenuclear accents, but later than in final nuclear accents, suggesting a prosodic boundary effect. The duration measurements suggest a positional, but no focus, effect on the duration of the accented syllable and its vowel, such that syllables/vowels earlier in the sentence are longer than later ones.

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400 Philology, Linguistics

Keywords

F0 alignment,focus,Icelandic,intonation,nuclear accent,prenuclear accent

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DEHÉ, Nicole, 2010. The nature and use of Icelandic prenuclear and nuclear pitch accents : evidence from F0 alignment and syllable/segment duration. In: Nordic Journal of Linguistics. 33(1), pp. 31-65. ISSN 0332-5865. Available under: doi: 10.1017/S0332586510000016

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  year={2010},
  doi={10.1017/S0332586510000016},
  title={The nature and use of Icelandic prenuclear and nuclear pitch accents : evidence from F0 alignment and syllable/segment duration},
  number={1},
  volume={33},
  issn={0332-5865},
  journal={Nordic Journal of Linguistics},
  pages={31--65},
  author={Dehé, Nicole}
}

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