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Klaus J. Kohler.
Form and Function of Non-Pitch Accents.
Contents :
1. Corpus Examples of Non-Pitch Accents- Example 1: Lengthening and strengthening of voiceless periphery of accented syllable
- Example 2: Lengthening of breathy nucleus of accented syllable
- Example 3: Disfluent Original dO
- Example 4:Fluent Original fO
- Example 5: Disfluent with Spliced Silence dp
- Example 6: Force Accent Original FO
- Example 7: Pitch Accent Original PO
- Example 8: Pitch Accent with Lengthened Intial Fricative (Degree 1) P1
- Example 9: Pitch Accent with Lengthened Intial Fricative (Degree1) P2
- Example 10: Disfluent Original (Control Stimulus) dO
- Example 11: Fluent Original (Control Stimulus) fO
- Example 12: Fluent with Spliced Silence fp
- Example 13: Disfluent with Spliced Silence dp
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1. Corpus Examples of Non-Pitch Accents
Example 1: Lengthening and strengthening of voiceless periphery of accented syllable
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Valerie die Treppe runterkickt `kicks Valerie down the stairs' (l061a, speaker MPI) |
Example 2: Lengthening of breathy-voice nucleus of accented syllable
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doch. 'of course it is.' (l021a, speaker AHA) |
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heißt er nicht Sperling?
'isn't his name Sperling?' (l021a, speaker AHA) |
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Sperling? nein. 'Sperling? no.' (l021a, speaker TLU) |
2. Examples of Non-Pitch and Pitch Accents in the Perception Test
Example 3: Disfluent Original dO
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und denn[:] b[:]allert er
ihr zwei ‘and then he slaps her twice in the face’ (l011a, speaker CJE) |
Example 4: Fluent Original fO
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so ’n Skelett angekuckt ‘looked at some skeleton’ (l011a, speaker CJE) |
Example 5: Disfluent with Spliced Silence dp
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das[:] [200 ms silence] war’s
denn schon ‘that was it then’ (l011a, speaker CJE) |
Example 6: Force Accent Original FO
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so ’ne total bescheuerte
Stimme ‘such a completely stupid voice’ (l011a, speaker CJE) |
Example 7: Pitch Accent Original PO
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total bescheuert
ausgesprochen ‘pronounced in a completely stupid way’ (l011a, speaker CJE) |
Example 8: Pitch Accent with Lengthened Initial Fricative (Degree 1) P1
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total besch[:]euert
ausgesprochen ‘pronounced in a completely stupid way’ (l011a, speaker CJE) |
Example 9: Pitch Accent with Lengthened Initial Fricative (Degree 2) P2
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total besch[::]euert
ausgesprochen ‘pronounced in a completely stupid way’ (l011a, speaker CJE) |
Example 10: Disfluent Original (Control Stimulus) dO
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keine[:] w[:]eiterfolgende
Szene davon ‘no subsequent episode of that’ (l011a, speaker CJE) |
Example 11: Fluent Original (Control Stimulus) fO
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eure besoffene
Fröhlichkeit ‘your drunken merriment’ (l011a, speaker CJE) |
Example 12: Fluent with Spliced Silence fp
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dass es [200 ms silence] nicht
von mir ist ‘that the baby is not mine’ (l011a, speaker CJE) |
Example 13: Disfluent with Spliced Silence dp
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ihre tolln[:] [200 ms
silence] Griespfannkuchen ‘her great semolina pancakes’ (l011a, speaker CJE) |
