Type of Publication: | Journal article |
Publication status: | Published |
Author: | Rathcke, Tamara |
Year of publication: | 2013 |
Published in: | Journal of Phonetics ; 41 (2013), 3-4. - pp. 172-185. - Elsevier. - ISSN 0095-4470. - eISSN 0095-4470 |
DOI (citable link): | https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2013.01.003 |
Summary: |
The study examined the effect of f0-truncation on the perception of phrase-final boundary tones in two truncating languages with similarities in their phonological inventories, German and Russian. In particular, the identification of truncated rise–falls (L*+H L%) and rise–plateaus (L*+H H%) under maximized time pressure was addressed, i.e. the nuclear syllable was phrase-final and consisted of a short vowel with voiceless onset and coda consonants. The results revealed that in both languages, truncation did not lead to a complete perceptual merger of the two forms but the situation was found closer to a complete neutralization in Russian as compared to German. More specifically, the temporal domain was exploited to preserve the contrast between L% and H% in German. The listeners showed a slight phrase-final f0-drop to be essential for the identification of L% as opposed to a simple f0-rise which was sufficient to identify H%. In Russian, the frequency domain was predominantly utilized to distinguish between the underlying L% and H% with the unexpected result that a strong upscaling of all f0-targets was necessary for L% to be perceived. The results are discussed in terms of the autosegmental-metrical theory of intonation; and some parallels are drawn between phrase-final positions at segmental and prosodic levels.
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Subject (DDC): | 400 Philology, Linguistics |
Refereed: | Yes |
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RATHCKE, Tamara, 2013. On the neutralizing status of truncation in intonation : A perception study of boundary tones in German and Russian. In: Journal of Phonetics. Elsevier. 41(3-4), pp. 172-185. ISSN 0095-4470. eISSN 0095-4470. Available under: doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2013.01.003
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