The dynamics of intonation: Categorical and continuous variation in an attractor-based model.
PLoS One
; 14(5): e0216859, 2019.
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ABSTRACT
The framework of dynamical systems offers powerful tools to understand the relation between stability and variability in human cognition in general and in speech in particular. In the current paper, we propose a dynamical systems approach to the description of German nuclear pitch accents in focus marking to account for both the categorical as well as the continuous variation found in intonational data. We report on results from 27 native speakers and employ an attractor landscape to represent pitch accent types in terms of f0 measures in a continuous dimension. We demonstrate how the same system can account for both the categorical variation (relative stability of one prosodic category) as well as the continuous variation (detailed modifications within one prosodic category). The model is able to capture the qualitative aspects of focus marking such as falling vs. rising pitch accent types as well as the quantitative aspects such as less rising vs. more rising accents in one system by means of scaling a single parameter. Furthermore, speaker group specific strategies are analysed and modelled as differences in the scaling of this parameter. Thus, the model contributes to the ongoing debate about the relation between phonetics and phonology and the importance of variation in language and speech.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Acústica del Lenguaje
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Percepción del Habla
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Calidad de la Voz
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Lenguaje
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Modelos Biológicos
Tipo de estudio:
Qualitative_research
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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En
Revista:
PLoS One
Asunto de la revista:
CIENCIA
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MEDICINA
Año:
2019
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Article
País de afiliación:
Alemania