TY - GEN
T1 - Prosody vs. Syntax
T2 - 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody: Every Language, Every Style, SP 2010
AU - Hock, Hans Henrich
AU - Dutta, Indranil
N1 - We would like to thank Sandra Chavarría-Klahn for helping us in the early phases of the experiments. This work was partially funded by the University of Illinois Campus Research Board and we are grateful for the board’s generous support of our research. We would also like to thank the audience at the 11th meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society (TLS XI) for useful comments and advice on an earlier draft of this paper.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - We examine the prosodic incorporation of utterance-final vocatives in American English. Our report is based on two separate experiments to test the claim by Beckman and Pierrehumbert (1986) ([1]) and Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg ([9]) that the phonetic manifestation of an L* tone on the final vocative is indicative of its contrastive behavior. Our first experiment, involving the dramatic reading of two scenes from a make-believe play, shows that in contexts approximating natural speech, final vocatives are prosodically integrated into the matrix structure. A second experiment with decontextualized”out-of-the-blue” readings, by contrast, shows patterns similar to Beckman and Pierrehumbert (1986)([1]) and Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg ([9]).
AB - We examine the prosodic incorporation of utterance-final vocatives in American English. Our report is based on two separate experiments to test the claim by Beckman and Pierrehumbert (1986) ([1]) and Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg ([9]) that the phonetic manifestation of an L* tone on the final vocative is indicative of its contrastive behavior. Our first experiment, involving the dramatic reading of two scenes from a make-believe play, shows that in contexts approximating natural speech, final vocatives are prosodically integrated into the matrix structure. A second experiment with decontextualized”out-of-the-blue” readings, by contrast, shows patterns similar to Beckman and Pierrehumbert (1986)([1]) and Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg ([9]).
KW - Final vocatives
KW - Prosodic incorporation
KW - Syntax-phonology interface
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody
BT - 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2010
PB - International Speech Communication Association
Y2 - 10 May 2010 through 14 May 2010
ER -