Intonation of Clause-Internal Filled Pauses
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Elizabeth E. Shriberg
Abstract
Clause-internal filled pauses and preceding peak fundamental frequency (F₀) values were analyzed to determine whether the intonation of filled pauses is relative to, or independent of, prior prosodic context. Higher peaks were found to be systematically associated with higher filled-pause values, supporting the ‘relative’ hypothesis. A linear model, in which filled-pause F₀ was expressed as an invariant (over speakers) proportion of the distance between preceding peak F₀ and a speaker-dependent baseline F₀, produced results nearly identical to those of a two-parameter model in which the coefficients of peak and baseline were allowed to vary freely. The model was less appropriate for filled pauses after sentence-initial peaks, but unaffected by temporal variables.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Special Section
- Contents, Vol. 50, No. 3, 1993
- Editorial Note
- Paper
- The Phonetic Interpretation of Tone in Igbo
- Effects of Time Pressure on the Phonetic Realization of the Dutch Accent-Lending Pitch Rise and Fall
- Intonation of Clause-Internal Filled Pauses
- Beyond Sentence Prosody: Paragraph Intonation in Dutch
- The Prosody of Information Units in Spontaneous Monologue
- A Study on Prosody and Discourse Structure in Cooperative Dialogues
- Further Section
- Publications Received for Review
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Special Section
- Contents, Vol. 50, No. 3, 1993
- Editorial Note
- Paper
- The Phonetic Interpretation of Tone in Igbo
- Effects of Time Pressure on the Phonetic Realization of the Dutch Accent-Lending Pitch Rise and Fall
- Intonation of Clause-Internal Filled Pauses
- Beyond Sentence Prosody: Paragraph Intonation in Dutch
- The Prosody of Information Units in Spontaneous Monologue
- A Study on Prosody and Discourse Structure in Cooperative Dialogues
- Further Section
- Publications Received for Review
