Textual Aspects of Prosody in Swedish
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Gösta Bruce
Abstract
The present paper explores the textual function of intonation in indicating coherence and boundaries between successive utterances of speech. An informal listening test showed how such prosodic coupling can be used to mark coherence between sentences of a text unit. The coherence is expressed as a downdrift of F₀ peaks and valleys characterizing the whole text unit. The boundary between two text units is signalled by terminating one and beginning another downdrift ramp. The characteristic features of the downdrift pattern seem to be (1) an adjustment of F₀ values to the length of the text unit, and (2) an adaptation of the F₀ of the beginning of a succeeding sentence to that of the later part of a preceding one in the same unit. Some preliminary implications of these results for speech planning are discussed.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Special Section
- Contents, Vol. 39, No.4-5, 1982
- Preface
- Paper
- Interaction between Articulatory Movements and Vocal Pitch Control in Japanese Word Accent
- F₀ in the Production of Lenis and Fortis Plosives
- Algorithms and Devices for Pitch Determination of Speech Signals
- Significant Points: Pitch Period Detection as a Problem of Segmentation
- Declination: Construct or Intrinsic Feature of Speech Pitch ?
- Textual Aspects of Prosody in Swedish
- Swedish Prosody
- On the Variabilty in F₀ Patterning and the Function of F₀ Timing in Languages where Pitch Cues Stress
- What Makes Speakers Omit Pitch Accents ? An Experiment
