Type of Publication: | Journal article |
Publication status: | Published |
URI (citable link): | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-r7raz836y5v12 |
Author: | Zahner, Katharina; Kutscheid, Sophie; Braun, Bettina |
Year of publication: | 2019 |
Published in: | Journal of Phonetics ; 74 (2019). - pp. 75-95. - ISSN 0095-4470. - eISSN 1095-8576 |
DOI (citable link): | https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2019.02.004 |
Summary: |
In intonation languages, pitch accents are associated with stressed syllables, therefore accentuation is a sufficient cue to the position of metrical stress in perception. This paper investigates how stress perception in German is affected by different pitch accent types (with different f0 alignments). Experiment 1 showed more errors in stress identification when f0 peaks and stressed syllables were not aligned – despite phonological association of pitch accent and stressed syllable. Erroneous responses revealed a response bias towards the syllable with the f0 peak. In a visual-world eye-tracking study (Experiment 2), listeners fixated a stress competitor with initial stress more when the spoken target, which had penultimate stress, was realized with an early-peak accent (f0 peak preceding stressed syllable), compared to a condition with the f0 peak on the stressed syllable. Hence, high-pitched unstressed syllables are temporarily interpreted as stressed – a process directly affecting lexical activation. To investigate whether this stress competitor activation is guided by the frequent co-occurrence of high f0 and lexical stress, Experiment 3 increased the frequency of low-pitched stressed syllables in the immediate input. The effect of intonation on competitor fixations disappeared. Our findings are discussed with respect to a frequency-based mechanism and their implications for the nature of f0 processing.
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Subject (DDC): | 400 Philology, Linguistics |
Keywords: | Stress judgements, Lexical activation, Eye-tracking, Lexical stress, Pitch accent type, German |
Link to License: | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
Bibliography of Konstanz: | Yes |
Refereed: | Yes |
ZAHNER, Katharina, Sophie KUTSCHEID, Bettina BRAUN, 2019. Alignment of f0 peak in different pitch accent types affects perception of metrical stress. In: Journal of Phonetics. 74, pp. 75-95. ISSN 0095-4470. eISSN 1095-8576. Available under: doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2019.02.004
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