Prominence perception is dependent on phonology, semantics, and awareness of discourse
| Autor: | Shari R. Speer, Kiwako Ito, Adam J. Royer, Rory Turnbull |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
Salience (language) Pitch accent Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Intonation (linguistics) Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Context (language use) Phonology 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Linguistics 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Perception 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0305 other medical science Psychology Prosody Adjective media_common |
| DOI: | 10.6084/m9.figshare.4585093.v1 |
| Popis: | The perception of prosodic prominence is thought to be influenced by multiple competing factors. Three experiments tested the effects of phonological salience, discourse context and listener’s knowledge about the discourse on prosodic prominence judgements, using short adjective–noun phrases extracted from a corpus of spontaneous speech. These phrases had either a prominent L + H* 0 or a less prominent H* !H* pitch accent contour. The phrases were presented in a discourse context which either supported or did not support a contrastive interpretation of the adjective. Effects of the contrastive context to increase the perception of prominence only emerged for the phrases with the phonologically prominent L + H* 0 pitch accent sequence. Additionally, the magnitude of the contrast effect was correlated with the listener’s awareness of the discourse context, suggesting an ample interplay between linguistic context, pragmatic context, and phonology in prominence perception. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|