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Kaland, Constantijn ORCID: 0000-0002-1813-5902 and Gordon, Matthew K. (2022). The role of f0 shape and phrasal position in Papuan Malay and American English word identification. Phonetica, 79 (3). S. 219 - 246. BERLIN: DE GRUYTER MOUTON. ISSN 1423-0321

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Abstract

The prosodic structure of under-researched languages in the Trade Malay language family is poorly understood. Although boundary marking has been uncontroversially shown as the major prosodic function in these languages, studies on the use of pitch accents to highlight important words in a phrase remain inconclusive. In addition, most knowledge of pitch accents is based on well-researched languages such as the ones from the Western-Germanic language family. This paper reports two word identification experiments comparing Papuan Malay with the pitch accent language American English, in order to investigate the extent to which the demarcating and highlighting function of prosody can be disentangled. To this end, target words were presented to native listeners of both languages and differed with respect to their position in the phrase (medial or final) and the shape of their f0 movement (original or manipulated). Reaction times for the target word identifications revealed overall faster responses for original and final words compared to manipulated and medial ones. The results add to previous findings on the facilitating effect of pitch accents and further improve our prosodic knowledge of underresearched languages.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Kaland, Constantijn UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-1813-5902 UNSPECIFIED Gordon, Matthew K. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-669894
DOI:	10.1515/phon-2022-2022
Journal or Publication Title:	Phonetica
Volume:	79
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 219 - 246
Date:	2022
Publisher:	DE GRUYTER MOUTON
Place of Publication:	BERLIN
ISSN:	1423-0321
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language REACTION-TIME; STRESS; SPEECH; FOCUS; PSYTOOLKIT; FREQUENCY; CUES Multiple languages Acoustics; Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology; Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66989