Himmelmann, Nikolaus P., Sandler, Meytal, Strunk, Jan ORCID: 0000-0001-8546-1778 and Unterladstetter, Volker (2018). On the universality of intonational phrases: a cross-linguistic interrater study. Phonology, 35 (2). S. 207 - 246. CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1469-8188

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Abstract

This study is concerned with the identifiability of intonational phrase boundaries across familiar and unfamiliar languages. Four annotators segmented a corpus of more than three hours of spontaneous speech into intonational phrases. The corpus included narratives in their native German, but also in three languages of Indonesia unknown to them. The results show significant agreement across the whole corpus, as well as for each subcorpus. We discuss the interpretation of these results, including the hypothesis that it makes sense to distinguish between phonetic and phonological intonational phrases, and that the former are a universal characteristic of speech, allowing listeners to segment speech into intonational phrase-sized units even in unknown languages.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Himmelmann, Nikolaus P.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Sandler, MeytalUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Strunk, JanUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0001-8546-1778UNSPECIFIED
Unterladstetter, VolkerUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-187530
DOI: 10.1017/S0952675718000039
Journal or Publication Title: Phonology
Volume: 35
Number: 2
Page Range: S. 207 - 246
Date: 2018
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Place of Publication: CAMBRIDGE
ISSN: 1469-8188
Language: English
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
PROSODY; SPEECH; COMPREHENSIONMultiple languages
Linguistics; Language & LinguisticsMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/18753

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