TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Arnold, Denis
A1  - Wagner, Petra
A1  - Möbius, Bernd
T1  - Obtaining prominence judgments from naïve listeners – Influence of rating scales, linguistic levels and normalisation
T2  - INTERSPEECH 2012, 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Portland, OR, USA, September 9-13, 2012
N2  - A frequently replicated finding is that higher frequency words tend to be shorter and contain more strongly reduced vowels. However, little is known about potential differences in the articulatory gestures for high vs. low frequency words. The present study made use of electromagnetic articulography to investigate the production of two German vowels, [i] and [a], embedded in high and low frequency words. We found that word frequency differently affected the production of [i] and [a] at the temporal as well as the gestural level. Higher frequency of use predicted greater acoustic durations for long vowels; reduced durations for short vowels; articulatory trajectories with greater tongue height for [i] and more pronounced downward articulatory trajectories for [a]. These results show that the phonological contrast between short and long vowels is learned better with experience, and challenge both the Smooth Signal Redundancy Hypothesis and current theories of German phonology.
KW  - prosody
KW  - prominence
KW  - methods
KW  - normalisation
KW  - acoustic correlates
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-59602
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-59602
UR  - http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/archive_papers/interspeech_2012/i12_2394.pdf
SN  - 1990-9770
SS  - 1990-9770
SP  - 2394
EP  - 2397
PB  - International Speech Communications Association
ER  -