Compound stress in English : the phonetics and phonology of prosodic prominence / Gero Kunter

Author:: Kunter, Gero
Published:: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2011.
Copyright Date:: ©2011
Physical Description:: viii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; 539

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.Compounds, stress and prominence: concepts and issues -- 2.1.What is a compound? -- 2.2.Prominence patterns in compounds -- 2.3.Prominence in the autosegmental-metrical framework -- 3.The corpus -- 4.Perception of compound prominence patterns -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.Pretest -- 4.3.Method -- 4.3.1.Participants -- 4.3.2.Stimuli -- 4.3.3.Procedure -- 4.4.Results -- 4.4.1.Overall results -- 4.4.2.Intrarater reliability -- 4.4.3.Perception ratings by items -- 4.4.4.Summary of results -- 4.5.Discussion -- 5.Acoustic correlates of compound prominence -- 5.1.Previous research -- 5.1.1.Pitch and fundamental frequency -- 5.1.2.Loudness, intensity and spectral balance -- 5.1.3.Duration -- 5.1.4.Non-modal phonation -- 5.1.5.Summary and research questions -- 5.2.Material and measurements -- 5.2.1.Pitch measurements -- 5.2.2.Duration -- 5.2.3.Intensity -- 5.2.4.Spectral balance -- 5.2.5.Non-modal phonation -- 5.3.Procedure -- 5.4.Results -- 5.5.Discussion -- 6.Classification and prediction of compound prominence patterns -- 6.1.Data -- 6.1.1.Automatic measurement procedure and evaluation -- 6.1.2.Vowel-intrinsic properties -- 6.1.3.Summary of acoustic measurements -- 6.2.Prediction of median prominence ratings -- 6.2.1.Predictors in the regression analysis -- 6.2.2.Regression analysis -- 6.2.3.Predictions for the Boston corpus -- 6.3.Classification of the Boston corpus -- 6.3.1.Training set -- 6.3.2.Model application and evaluation -- 7.What determines compound prominence patterns? -- 7.1.Methodology -- 7.2.Hypothesis testing with unbalanced data -- 7.3.The structural hypothesis -- 7.4.The semantic hypothesis -- 7.5.Structural and semantic hypotheses combined -- 7.6.Analogical effects -- 7.7.General discussion -- 8.Within- and across-speaker variation -- 8.1.Methodology -- 8.2.Within-speaker variability -- 8.2.1.Data -- 8.2.2.Results -- 8.2.3.Discussion -- 8.3.Across-speaker variability -- 8.3.1.Data -- 8.3.2.Results -- 8.3.3.Discussion -- 8.4.General discussion -- 9.Conclusion.

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ISBN:

3110254697
9783110254693

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225).

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