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Production and Perception of Thematic Contrast in German

Bettina Braun (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2005
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-03910-566-3 (ISBN)

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Variations in speech melody (intonation) can be used to express different meanings (e.g. question vs. statement, friendliness). Yet, intonational information is hardly used in present-day linguistic models. When intonational information is used, it is mostly based on introspection rather than on empirical investigation; almost exclusively, a one-to-one relation between accent types and semantic function is assumed. This book focuses on an empirical investigation of thematic contrast in German. Thematic contrast has received considerable attention in semantics because sentences with contrastive themes can be used to imply propositions of various kinds without saying them explicitly.
In this book, first an acoustic comparison between sentences produced in contrastive and non-contrastive contexts is described. Intonational realisation is quantified in terms of the height and position of tonal targets. The perceptual reality of different productions and the relevance of different acoustic cues are tested by means of rating experiments. Finally, the data are prosodically annotated by a group of linguists to explore the validity and explanatory power of different accent categories for contrastive and non-contrastive themes in German.

The Author: Bettina Braun studied Phonetics/Phonology and Computational Linguistics at Saarland University (Germany), the University of Edinburgh (UK), and Tohoku University (Japan). She pursued her Ph.D. in the International Research Training Group ‘Language Technology and Cognitive Systems’ supported by the German Research Council (DFG). After a post-doctoral period at the University of Oxford, she currently holds a position at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (The Netherlands).

Contents: Discussion of the concept of contrast - Production experiment eliciting identical sentences in contrastive and non-contrastive contexts - Acoustic analysis - Perception experiments using preference ratings - Labelling experiment using current autosegmental-metrical annotation.

«Die Arbeit von Bettina Braun stellt einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Phonetik und Phonologie des Akzents im Deutschen dar.» (Alexander Werth, Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.10.2005
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics ; 9
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Acoustic analysis • Bernhardt • Bettina • Braun • Concept of contrast • Contrast • Davis • Deutsch • German • Graeme • Hardcover, Softcover / Romanische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • HC/Romanische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • Intonation (Linguistik) • Karl • perception • Perception experiment • Production • Production experiment • thematic
ISBN-10	3-03910-566-3 / 3039105663
ISBN-13	978-3-03910-566-3 / 9783039105663
Zustand	Neuware