Timing and Communicative Functions of Pitch Contours
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K. Kohler
Abstract
A new research paradigm is applied to F0 synchronization with articulation, inpeak and valley contours, under four principles: (a) Timing of F0 contours enters thedefinitions of the pitch categories. (b) These phonetic exponents are linked to com-municativefunctions. (c) The listener plays a pivotal role. (d) Contextualization oftest stimuli is essential for pitch data collection. Data are presented and interpretedfrom an experimental investigation of the substance-function relationship in theperception of peak and valley shift series by German listeners, using the semanticdifferential technique. The findings of the substance-function relationship areexplained with reference to the frequency codeand to auditory enhancement,i.e.syntagmatic contrast of high-low or low-high pitch trajectories in synchronizationwith articulatory landmarks of accented syllables.
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- Special Section
- Contents
- Further Section
- Contents Vol. 62, 2005
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Original Paper
- Parallel Encoding of Focus and Interrogative Meaning in Mandarin Intonation
- Timing and Communicative Functions of Pitch Contours
- Exploring the Influence of Vocal Emotion Expression on Communicative Effectiveness
- Methodological Imperatives for Investigating the Phonetic Organization and Phonological Structures of Spontaneous Speech
- From Words to Actions: The Phonetics of Eigenlijk in Two Communicative Contexts
- Articulatory Planning Is Continuous and Sensitive to Informational Redundancy
- The Communicative Functions of Final Rises in Finnish Intonation
- Acoustic Patterns and Communicative Functions of Phrase-Final F0 Rises in German: Activating and Restricting Contours
- Between Fall and Fall-Rise: Substance-Function Relations in German Phrase-Final Intonation Contours
- Exploring Prosody in Interaction Control
- A Re-Evaluation of the Nature of Speech Errors in Normal and Disordered Speakers
- Further Section
- Libri
- Index autorum Vol. 62, 2005
