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Roessig, Simon ORCID: 0000-0001-6413-1761, Mücke, Doris ORCID: 0000-0002-6217-3121 and Grice, Martine ORCID: 0000-0003-4973-4059 (2019). The dynamics of intonation: Categorical and continuous variation in an attractor-based model. PLoS One, 14 (5). SAN FRANCISCO: PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE. ISSN 1932-6203

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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.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Roessig, Simon UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6413-1761 UNSPECIFIED Mücke, Doris UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6217-3121 UNSPECIFIED Grice, Martine UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-4973-4059 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-147913
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0216859
Journal or Publication Title:	PLoS One
Volume:	14
Number:	5
Date:	2019
Publisher:	PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
Place of Publication:	SAN FRANCISCO
ISSN:	1932-6203
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 1: Kunstgeschichte, Musikwissenschaft, Medienkultur und Theater, Linguistik, IDH > Institut für Linguistik > Phonetik
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language INCOMPLETE NEUTRALIZATION; SPEECH; ARTICULATION; PERCEPTION; ENGLISH Multiple languages Multidisciplinary Sciences Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/14791