PRODUCING PHRASAL PROMINENCE IN GERMAN

Bistra Andreeva, William J. Barry & Ingmar Steiner
Institute of Phonetics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken

ID 1699
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This study examines the relative change in a number of acoustic parameters usually associated with the production of prominences. The production of six German sentences under different question answer conditions provide de-accented and accented versions of the same words in broad and narrow focus. Normalised energy, F0, duration and spectral measures were found to form a stable hierarchy in their exponency of the three degrees of accentuation.

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