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Röhr, Christine T. ORCID: 0000-0002-2911-8382, Baumann, Stefan ORCID: 0000-0001-5963-6079 and Grice, Martine ORCID: 0000-0003-4973-4059 (2022). The influence of expectations on tonal cues to prominence. J. Phon., 94. LONDON: ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. ISSN 1095-8576

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Abstract

Contexts such as Guess what happened yesterday lead to expectations as to how unusual and exciting the con-tent of a following utterance will be. This paper investigates how speakers encode this pragmatic meaning in their productions and further evaluates the findings from the listeners' perspective. Contexts in which the speaker is required to make information exciting for the listener lead to target words being made more prominent, with more frequent use of rising accents and larger rising tonal onglides than information placed in a neutral or ordinary con-text. Conversely, ordinary information is made less prominent by means of fewer and smaller rising onglides as well as more and larger falling onglides. Individual speakers convey this information in different but systematically compatible ways, supporting a view of intonational phonology that integrates qualitative pitch accent categories and quantitative phonetic parameters. Listeners' ratings of the contexts and the production stimuli confirm the interpretation of the intended meanings and the role of the tonal onglide: A large rising onglide (as in L+H*) on the target word clearly leads to the interpretation of unusual/exciting information, whereas a small rising onglide (as in H*) or falling onglides (as in H+!H* and H+L*) do not. (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Röhr, Christine T. UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2911-8382 UNSPECIFIED Baumann, Stefan stefan.baumann@uni-koeln.de orcid.org/0000-0001-5963-6079 UNSPECIFIED Grice, Martine martine.grice@uni-koeln.de orcid.org/0000-0003-4973-4059 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-661674
DOI:	10.1016/j.wocn.2022.101174
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Phon.
Volume:	94
Date:	2022
Publisher:	ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1095-8576
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:	Language, Linguistics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language INFORMATION-STRUCTURE; PITCH; ACCENT; PERCEPTION; COMPREHENSION; AGREEMENT; GIVENNESS; PROSODY; SILENT; FOCUS Multiple languages Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66167