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Acoustic Patterns and Communicative Functions of Phrase-Final F0 Rises in German: Activating and Restricting Contours

  • E. Dombrowski and O. Niebuhr
Published/Copyright: January 4, 2006
Phonetica
From the journal Phonetica Volume 62 Issue 2-4

Abstract

Acoustic features and communicative functions of phrase-final F0 rises startingbefore an accented-vowel onset are analysed in a corpus of German unscriptedspeech. Two conversational conditions are examined: turn-yielding and turn-holding.The most important feature distinguishing rises in these two conditions is therange proportion, which differentiates between two patterns as follows: (1) raisedpitch on the accented syllable and restrained pitch movement in the tail of thecontour, (2) lowered pitch on the accented syllable and extended pitch movementin the tail. The first pattern is seen as a restrictivegesture, e.g. preventing the dia-loguepartner from turn taking. The second one is viewed as an activatinggesture,inviting the coparticipant to contribute.

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Published Online: 2006-01-04
Published in Print: 2005-12-01

© 2006 S. Karger AG, Basel

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https://doi.org/10.1159/000090097

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Special Section
  2. Contents
  3. Further Section
  4. Contents Vol. 62, 2005
  5. Editorial
  6. Editorial
  7. Original Paper
  8. Parallel Encoding of Focus and Interrogative Meaning in Mandarin Intonation
  9. Timing and Communicative Functions of Pitch Contours
  10. Exploring the Influence of Vocal Emotion Expression on Communicative Effectiveness
  11. Methodological Imperatives for Investigating the Phonetic Organization and Phonological Structures of Spontaneous Speech
  12. From Words to Actions: The Phonetics of Eigenlijk in Two Communicative Contexts
  13. Articulatory Planning Is Continuous and Sensitive to Informational Redundancy
  14. The Communicative Functions of Final Rises in Finnish Intonation
  15. Acoustic Patterns and Communicative Functions of Phrase-Final F0 Rises in German: Activating and Restricting Contours
  16. Between Fall and Fall-Rise: Substance-Function Relations in German Phrase-Final Intonation Contours
  17. Exploring Prosody in Interaction Control
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  19. Further Section
  20. Libri
  21. Index autorum Vol. 62, 2005
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