Title
Are There "Shapers" and "Aligners"? Individual Differences in Signalling Pitch Accent Category.
Abstract
One of the most studied phonetic dimensions diffe-rentiating pitch accent categories is tonal align-ment. However, when acoustic alignment data are broken down by individual patterns, one can notice great differences both in the size of the contrast as well as in the dispersion of the temporal values. Moreover, speakers appear to compensate for weaker alignment differences by enhancing shape differences in the contour, such as rise/fall slope. Here we present production data in two languages, German and Italian, for well-established pitch ac-cent contrasts. Our data suggest that the speakers. behavior can be represented on a continuum from most extreme "aligners" to "shapers".
Year
Venue
Field
2011
ICPhS
Signalling,Pitch accent,Speech recognition,Contrast (statistics),Notice,Engineering,German
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Oliver Niebuhr1388.07
Mariapaola D'Imperio24021.23
Barbara Gili Fivela3113.56
Francesco Cangemi401.35