F₀-Based Rhythm Effects on the Perception of Local Syllable Prominence
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Oliver Niebuhr
Abstract
A perception experiment shows for German that different global, F₀-based speech rhythms in the context section of stimuli influence the local prominence position in the target section. This effect may be conceptualized as a perceptual adjustment of the syllables in the target section to the ones of the global rhythmic context with regard to both the prominence and the F₀ patterns. Two conclusions were drawn on this basis. First, listeners use speech rhythm to predict the perceptual properties of syllables, which is in line with the guide function that speech rhythm is assumed to have in German and other Western Germanic languages. Secondly, speech rhythm is a perceptual phenomenon, generated by a cyclic construction process that involves repetitive patterns in multiple dimensions. Thus, although speech rhythm is initiated by changes in acoustic parameters, it cannot be soaked up by acoustic measurements, especially, if these measurements refer to duration alone.
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- Special Section
- Title Page / Table of Contents
- Editorial
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- Original Paper
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- Rhythm in Speech and Language
- Rhythm, Timing and the Timing of Rhythm
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- Further Section
- Index autorum
Articles in the same Issue
- Special Section
- Title Page / Table of Contents
- Editorial
- Whither Speech Rhythm Research?
- Original Paper
- Rhythm as an Affordance for the Entrainment of Movement
- Rhythm in Speech and Language
- Rhythm, Timing and the Timing of Rhythm
- The Pairwise Variability Index and Coexisting Rhythms in Language
- Do Rhythm Measures Reflect Perceived Rhythm?
- F₀-Based Rhythm Effects on the Perception of Local Syllable Prominence
- On the Possible Role of Brain Rhythms in Speech Perception: Intelligibility of Time-Compressed Speech with Periodic and Aperiodic Insertions of Silence
- Further Section
- Index autorum
