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09 Grige & Bauman (Eng) | 2.1-2 Functions of intonation; Lexical and morphological marking; Syntactic functions 2. Functions of intonation In spoken language, intonation serves diverse linguistic and paralinguistic functions, ranging from the marking of sentence modality to the expression of emotional and attitudinal nuances. It is important to identify how they are expressed in the learner's native language, so that differences between the native and target languages are identified. It is particularly important to point out that many aspects of information structure and indirect speech acts are expressed differently across languages. Making learners aware of the existence of these functions will not only help them learn to express them, but will also help them to interpret what they hear in a more analytic way, thus reducing the danger of attributing unexpected intonation patterns as (solely) a function of the attitude or emotional state of the speaker. We have seen that intonation analysis involves categorical decisions about whether there is stress or accent, and, if there is an accent, which type of pitch accent it is. It also involves decisions about whether a boundary is present, and if so which pitch movement or level is used to mark it. There are also many gradient aspects to intonation, such as variation in pitch height or in the exact shape of the contour (equivalent to allophonic variation in the segmental domain). 2.1. Lexical and morphological marking Lexical and morphological marking does not belong to intonation proper but uses pitch, and to some extent also the other channels used by intonation. Categorical tonal contrasts at word level are characteristic of tone languages. Two quite different examples of tone languages are Standard Chinese, which has lexical contrasts such as the well-known example of the syllable ma with four different tonal contours, each which constitutes a distinct lexical item (mother, hemp, horse and scold), and the West African (Niger Congo) language Bini, which has grammatical tone: a change of tone marks the difference between tenses, e.g. low tone marking present tense and high or high-low tones marking past tense (see Crystal 1987: 172). Categorical tonal contrasts are also characteristic of so-called pitch accent languages which may also have lexical or grammatical tone. Both Swedish and Japanese are pitch accent languages. The difference between tone languages and pitch accent languages is that the former have contrastive tone on almost all syllables, whilst the latter restrict their tonal contrasts to specific syllables, which bear a pitch accent. However, it is difficult to draw a dividing line between these two language categories (see Gussenhoven 2004: 47). In intonation languages (the most thoroughly studied of which are generally also stress accent languages) like English and German, pitch is solely a postlexical feature, i.e. it is only relevant at utterance level. All tone and pitch accent languages have intonation in addition to their lexical and/or grammatical tone, although the complexity of their intonation systems varies considerably. 2.2. Syntactic functions As we have already pointed out, syntactic structure and intonational phrasing are strongly related, but do not have to correspond exactly. Intonation can be used to disambiguate in certain cases between two different syntactic structures. The attachment of prepositional phrases is often said to be signalled by intonation. For example, in (6), a phrase break after verfolgt tends to lead to the interpretation that it is the man with the motorbike which Rainer is following. A phrase break after Mann would tend to lead to the interpretation that Rainer is on his motorbike and is following a man whilst riding it. In the first case the prepositional phrase modifies the noun phrase (den Mann) and in the second it modifies the verb (verfolgt). This phrasing has the same effect in the English translation. (6)     Rainer verfolgt den Mann mit dem Motorrad.  ‘Rainer is following the man with the motorbike.’ However, it is often unnecessary to disambiguate between two readings, particularly if the context is clear. It should therefore not be expected that speakers will make such distinctions all of the time. A study on Italian and English syntactic disambiguation (Hirschberg and Avesani 2000) showed this particularly clearly, not only for prepositional phrase attachments, as in (7a), but also for ambiguously attached adverbials, as in (7b) (adapted from Hirschberg and Avesani 2000: 93). (7a) Ha disegnato un bambino con una penna.     ‘lit. He drew a child with a pen’ (7b) Lui le aveva parlato chiaramente.         ‘lit. He to her has spoken clearly.’ The two readings of (7b) are either that it was clear that he spoke to her (the adverbial modifies the sentence) or that he spoke to her in a clear manner (the adverbial modifies the verb).

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08 Grige & Bauman (Eng) | 1.3. Consequences of highlighting and phrasing for the segments of speech 1.3. Consequences of highlighting and phrasing for the segments of speech In section 1.1. we claimed that sounds are more strongly articulated when they are stressed or accented. The strength of sounds is also affected by the position of the sound in the syllable and, in turn, of the syllable within the phrase. Below we outline what is meant by strengthening, both with respect to prominence and to phrasing, and describe another phrasal effect on the duration of sounds. An account of intonation cannot ignore these effects, as they are often consciously or unconsciously used as diagnostics for the intonational analysis itself. This is particularly the case for phrasing, where intuitions about levels of phrasing based on the pitch contour are often unclear. If we take the sound /t/, at the beginning of a stressed syllable it is stronger than it would be at the beginning of an unstressed syllable: compare /t/ realisations at the beginning of ‘tomorrow’ and ‘tomcat,’ where /t/ in ‘tomcat’ is stronger (we hear greater aspiration and a longer closure). Moreover, /t/ at the beginning of a syllable bearing a pitch accent is stronger than one at the beginning of a syllable which is stressed but bears no pitch accent: Compare initial /t/ in the word ‘tomcats’ in ‘I like TOMCATS best’ with ‘Why not? I LIKE tomcats,’ where the former /t/ is longer and more aspirated. The strengthening of segments at the beginning of phrases (domains) is referred to as domain initial strengthening (see, e.g., Keating et al. 2003). Let us take the sound /t/ in English again. It is pronounced at the beginning of a larger phrase with greater strength than at the beginning of a smaller one. Furthermore, connected speech processes such as assimilation occur to a lesser extent across large boundaries than across small ones. This resistance to assimilation is also considered to be due to initial strengthening, in the sense that the segment preserves its identity, thus enhancing the contrast with adjacent segments (syntagmatic contrast), and possibly even enhancing a contrast with other segments which might occur in that position (paradigmatic contrast). At the ends of phrases there is a slowing down of the articulators, which is reflected in the signal as final lengthening. The larger the phrase, the greater the degree of final lengthening (inter alia, Wightman et al. 1992). Final lengthening leads to an increase in the duration of segments which is different from the increase obtained by stress and accent; the sounds are often pronounced less loudly and clearly than in stressed and accented syllables. Thus, final lengthening cannot easily be mistaken for accentual lengthening. Final lengthening has been found in a large number of languages, and is assumed to have a physiological basis, although there are language-specific, and even contour-specific differences as to the degree of final lengthening present. If a phrase break occurs across a sequence of unstressed syllables, those which are at the beginning of the second phrase are often pronounced very fast, this is referred to as anacrusis. Like an abrupt change in pitch, an abrupt change in rhythm is a strong cue for a phrase break. Now that the highlighting and phrasing tasks have been discussed, we turn to which functions they are used to express.

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05 Grige & Bauman (Eng) | An introduction to intonation – functions and models Il capitolo di Grice & Baumann offre una sintesi autorevole sull’intonazione come componente centrale della prosodia linguistica, distinguendo nettamente tra segmenti e tratti soprasegmentali secondo la tradizione dell’International Phonetic Association. L’intonazione viene descritta come l’insieme delle variazioni funzionali di F0 (frequenza fondamentale) e degli altri correlati prosodici (intensità, durata, qualità vocalica), che nel loro insieme concorrono alla costruzione del significato linguistico e pragmatico. Due sono i compiti fondamentali: - Prominence – la modulazione gerarchica della rilevanza informativa all’interno dell’enunciato, realizzata tramite pitch accent, differenze di durata e stabilità articolatoria; - Prosodic constituency – la segmentazione del parlato in unità prosodiche maggiori e minori, interpretata nel quadro metrico-autosegmentale come distribuzione di accenti e toni di bordo che strutturano la gerarchia prosodica. Gli autori evidenziano come le lingue differiscano nella gestione dei rapporti tra lexical stress, pitch accent e information status: alcune sfruttano la deaccentuazione sistematica (inglese), altre mantengono un’accentazione finale più robusta (italiano, varietà indiane di English). Il contributo mostra inoltre come l’intonazione operi nel marcaggio del focus, distinguendo tra narrow focus e broad focus, e nella codifica di stati informativi come “nuovo”, “dato”, “accessibile”, secondo parametri riconosciuti dalla pragmatica internazionale. Un’ampia sezione è dedicata alla distinzione tra funzioni linguistiche e paralinguistiche, chiarendo il ruolo dei tre codici biologici (frequency code, production code, effort code) nel modellare contorni come quelli interrogativi, finali, continuativi o espressivi. Infine, gli autori confrontano i modelli descrittivi: la tradizione britannica basata su contorni globali e il sistema autosegmentale-metrico (ToBI), oggi standard internazionale per precisione analitica, interoperabilità tra lingue e corrispondenza con la fonetica sperimentale.

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People seem to lose their #accent when #singing because we treat our accents as the default. #Music and the physical act of singing can cause the suppression of characteristic features leading to anl more ambiguous accent

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Question intonation in conversational speech: Chungcheong and Gyeongsang varieties of Korean This study analyzed unscripted, conversational speech to investigate differences in question intonation in Korean varieties spoken in Chungcheong (CC) and Gyeon

New #jasa paper using semi-automatic #intonation analysis to show distributional differences between language varieties

Question intonation in conversational speech: Chungcheong and Gyeongsang varieties of Korean. doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

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Congrats to @stan-vd-burght.bsky.social (@mpi-nl.bsky.social and Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) on his NWO Veni grant. In his research he will process intonation: not just what we say, but how.
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Beyond words: Hidden musical grammar of natural speech revealed in study The AI revolution, which has begun to transform our lives over the past three years, is built on a fundamental linguistic principle that lies at the base of large language models such as ChatGPT.…

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This has enormous potential to improve speech recognition and synthesis technologies like Siri, which are notoriously bad at understanding and producing intonation patterns.

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New open access. publication ‘The perception of intonational peaks and valleys: The effects of plateaux, declination and experimental task’

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How final is final: The production and perception of utterance-medial and utterance-final boundaries We examine the production and perception of two types of phrase-final prosodic boundaries, specifically, utterance-medial and utterance-final intonation phrase (IP) boundaries in German. These two typ...

New insights into German #prosody! How do speakers & listeners distinguish utterance-medial vs. utterance-final #intonation boundaries in #German? Subtle differences in intonation, particularly in the rhyme's f0, are key cues for listeners. #LabPhon #openaccess #kinematics doi.org/10.16995/lab...

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