Based on enacted dialogues of 60 native speakers, the present study shows that males and females differ in their prosodic realization of lexically and syntactically marked questions in German. Frequency counts of final rises and falls, as well as measurements of mean F0, speaking rate, and intensity levels suggest that males rather than females are more polite, open, and amenable – i.e. overall...

Perception of emotion in voice is impaired following traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study examined whether an inability to concurrently process semantic information (the "what") and emotional prosody (the "how") of spoken speech contributes to impaired recognition of emotional prosody and whether impairment is ameliorated when little or no semantic information is provided. Eighteen individu...

In this study we investigate the prosody of Italian Particle Verbs (henceforth, PrtV's). After comparing two alternative hypotheses about the prosodic constituent PrtV's correspond to, we concentrate on three rules of Italian phonology that differ in their domain of application: the phonological word (ω) vs. the phonological phrase (φ). We then report on a production experiment carried out with...

This paper reports the results of a phonetic experiment carried out to explore the potential importance of visual information for the perception of Japanese prosody and its relationship with phonological structure. It specifically examines whether and to what extent native speakers of Japanese are able to accurately perceive the temporal structure of their native language on the sole basis of v...

Prosody and Speaker State: Paralinguistics, Pragmatics, and Proficiency

The aim of this paper is threefold: (i) to examine the prosodic means that German speakers use when they intend high and low attachment interpretations in NP1-NP2GEN R(elative)C(lause) constructions, (ii) to investigate the prosodic means employed by speakers when confronted with ambiguous NP1NP2GENR(elative)-C(lause) constructions and (iii) to test the predictions made by the Implicit Prosody ...

This production study investigates the interaction of prosody, word order and information structure with respect to whconstituents in Urdu. We contrasted immediately preverbal wh-constituents with immediately postverbal ones. The preverbal position is the default focus position in Urdu; the appearance of wh-constituents in the immediately postverbal position within the verbal complex is not wel...

OF THE DISSERTATION Context, Word-class, and Prosody in the Recognition of Openand Closed-class Words