Production and Perception of Thematic Contrast in German (Paperback, Annotated edition)

Variations in speech melody (intonation) can be used to express different meanings (e.g. question vs. statement, friendliness). Yet, intonational information is hardly used in presentday linguistic models. When intonational information is used, it is mostly based on introspection rather than on empirical investigation; almost exclusively, a one-to-one relation between accent types and semantic function is assumed. This book focuses on an empirical investigation of thematic contrast in German. Thematic contrast has received considerable attention in semantics because sentences with contrastive themes can be used to imply propositions of various kinds without saying them explicitly. In this book, first an acoustic comparison between sentences produced in contrastive and non-contrastive contexts is described. Intonational realisation is quantified in terms of the height and position of tonal targets. The perceptual reality of different productions and the relevance of different accoustic cues are tested by means of rating experiments. Finally, the data are prosodically annotated by a group of linguists to explore the validity and explanatory power of different accent categories for contrastive and non-contrastive themes in German.

General

Imprint:	Verlag Peter Lang
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, 9
Release date:	October 2005
Authors:	Bettina Braun
Dimensions:	150 x 220 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	277
Edition:	Annotated edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-910566-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech) Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > Perception
LSN:	3-03-910566-3
Barcode:	9783039105663

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