Type of Publication: | Contribution to a conference collection |
Publication status: | Published |
URI (citable link): | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-1fiatxkgt9gzb4 |
Author: | Braun, Bettina; Wochner, Daniela; Zahner, Katharina; Dehé, Nicole |
Year of publication: | 2018 |
Conference: | Seventeenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST 2018), Dec 4, 2018 - Dec 7, 2018, Sydney, Australia |
Published in: | Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology / Epps, Julien et al. (ed.). - Canberra : ASSTA, 2018. - pp. 125-128. - eISSN 2207-1296 |
URL of original publication: | https://assta.org/proceedings/sst/SST-2018/SST_2018_Proceedings_Rev_A_IDX.pdf, Last access on Dec 2, 2022 |
Summary: |
Rhetorical questions (RQs) differ from information-seeking questions (ISQs) in that they do not require an answer and instead seek commitment of the addressee regarding the underlying proposition. We tested the prosodic differences between ISQs and RQs in German and showed that polar RQs were mainly realized with a high plateau (H-% in the GToBI system) and polar ISQs with a high-rise (H-^H%). Wh-RQs almost exclusively ended in a low edge tone whereas wh-ISQs showed more tonal variation (L-%, L-H%, H-^H%). Irrespective of question type, RQs were mainly produced with L*+H accents. Phonetically, RQs were – compared to ISQs – more often realized with breathy voice quality in the beginning of the utterance and with longer constituent durations. The object noun was particularly lengthened. Classification and regression trees showed that polar questions can be classified on the basis of the boundary tone alone, and wh-questions by an interaction between phonological events and duration. We discuss the findings with respect to the phonology-semantics interface.
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Subject (DDC): | 400 Philology, Linguistics |
Link to License: | In Copyright |
Bibliography of Konstanz: | Yes |
BRAUN, Bettina, Daniela WOCHNER, Katharina ZAHNER, Nicole DEHÉ, 2018. Classification of Interrogatives as Information-Seeking or Rhetorical Questions. Seventeenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST 2018). Sydney, Australia, Dec 4, 2018 - Dec 7, 2018. In: EPPS, Julien, ed. and others. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Canberra:ASSTA, pp. 125-128. eISSN 2207-1296
@inproceedings{Braun2018Class-59387, title={Classification of Interrogatives as Information-Seeking or Rhetorical Questions}, url={https://assta.org/proceedings/sst/SST-2018/SST_2018_Proceedings_Rev_A_IDX.pdf}, year={2018}, address={Canberra}, publisher={ASSTA}, booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology}, pages={125--128}, editor={Epps, Julien}, author={Braun, Bettina and Wochner, Daniela and Zahner, Katharina and Dehé, Nicole} }
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