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This paper describes work directed towards the development of a syllable prominence-based prosody generation functionality for a German unit selection speech synthesis system. A general concept for syllable prominence-based prosody generation in unit selection synthesis is proposed. As a first step towards its implementation, an automated syllable prominence annotation procedure based on acoustic analyses has been performed on the BOSS speech corpus. The prominence labeling has been evaluated against an existing annotation of lexical stress levels and manual prominence labeling on a subset of the corpus. We discuss methods and results and give an outlook on further implementation steps.
Designing a Bilingual Speech Corpus for French and German Language Learners: a Two-Step Process
(2014)
We present the design of a corpus of native and non-native speech for the language pair French-German, with a special emphasis on phonetic and prosodic aspects. To our knowledge there is no suitable corpus, in terms of size and coverage, currently available for the target language pair. To select the target L1-L2 interference phenomena we prepare a small preliminary corpus (corpus1), which is analyzed for coverage and cross-checked jointly by French and German experts. Based on this analysis, target phenomena on the phonetic and phonological level are selected on the basis of the expected degree of deviation from the native performance and the frequency of occurrence. 14 speakers performed both L2 (either French or German) and L1 material (either German or French). This allowed us to test, recordings duration, recordings material, the performance of our automatic aligner software. Then, we built corpus2 taking into account what we learned about corpus1. The aims are the same but we adapted speech material to avoid too long recording sessions. 100 speakers will be recorded. The corpus (corpus1 and corpus2) will be prepared as a searchable database, available for the scientific community after completion of the project.
Die vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit verschieden Methoden zur Erhebung von perzeptuellen Prominenzurteilen von naiven Hörern im Deutschen. Es werden zwei Experimente vorgestellt, die sich zum einen mit der Verwendung von verschiedenen Skalen, zum anderen mit der Verwendung von unterschiedlichen Bewertungsebenen zur Beurteilung von perzeptueller Prominenz beschäftigen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Ergebnisse von Studien, welche auf unterschiedlichen Erhebungstechniken beruhen nicht ohne weiteres vergleichbar sind. Die Arbeit untersucht außerdem die Effekte einer Normalisierung der Prominenzurteile. Die Dissertation schließt mit einem Ausblick für zukünftige Studien. Hierbei werden hauptsächlich die vielfältigen Interaktionen von verschiedenen Quellen und dem Kontext bei der Beurteilung der perzeptuellen Prominenz adressiert.
Handschrift ist ein alltägliches Phänomen – sie begegnet uns in der Schule, auf Einkaufszetteln oder auch als Unterschrift. Über die grammatischen und insbesondere die graphematischen Grundlagen der Handschrift wissen wir allerdings nur wenig. Dabei bieten Handschriften mehr Variationsmöglichkeiten als etwa Druckschriften und können deshalb mehr grammatische Strukturen sichtbar machen, als dies in gedruckten Texten der Fall ist.
Die vorliegende Untersuchung zeigt, dass strukturelle Eigenheiten einer Handschrift oft mit grammatischen Eigenheiten zusammenfallen, etwa durch die Markierung komplexer Grapheme, Silben-, Morphem- und Fußgrenzen oder auch durch die Auszeichnung bestimmter Buchstabenformen wie ‹e›, wenn es mit Schwa korrespondiert. Dazu werden Abituraufsätze untersucht, graphetisch und grammatisch annotiert und ausgewertet.
This special issue investigates early responses—responsive actions that (start to) unfold while the production of the responded-to turn and action is still under way. Although timing in human conduct has gained intense interest in research, the early production of responsive actions has so far largely remained unexplored. But what makes early responses possible? What do such responses tell us about the complex interplay between syntax, prosody, and embodied conduct? And what sorts of actions do participants accomplish by means of such early responses? By addressing these questions, the special issue seeks to offer new advances in the systematic analysis of temporal organization in interaction, contributing to broader discussions in the language and cognitive sciences as to the social coordination of human conduct. In this introductory article, we discuss the role of temporality and sequentiality in social interaction, specifically focusing on projective and anticipatory mechanisms and the interplay between multiple semiotic resources, which are crucial for making early responses possible.
Aus Platzgründen musste in der Druckfassung des Artikels „Beobachtungen zu Frequenz und Funktionen von ja in deutscher Spontansprache“ (in: Deutsche Sprache 50, S. 336–363; https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1868-775X.2022.04.04) auf den Abdruck der illustrierenden Abbildungen 2–18 im Abschnitt 5.2 verzichtet werden. Das entsprechende Kapitel inklusive aller Abbildungen ist hier abrufbar.
The phonological word (henceforth pword) differs from lower units of the prosodic hierarchy (e.g. foot, syllable) in that its boundaries must align with morphological boundaries. While languages are claimed to differ w.r.t. the questions of whether and which word-internal constituents (e.g. stems, prefixes, suffixes, members of compounds) form a pword there is no consensus regarding the question of which diagnostics are relevant for determining pword structure. In this paper it is argued that systematic correlations between various suprasegmental properties (e.g. stress patterns, syllable structure) motivate the existence of word-internal pwords in German.
Smooth turn-taking in conversation depends in part on speakers being able to communicate their intention to hold or cede the floor. Both prosodic and gestural cues have been shown to be used in this context. We investigate the interplay of pitch movements and hand gestures at locations at which speaker change becomes relevant, comparing their use in German and Swedish. We find that there are some shared functions of prosody and gesture with regard to turn-taking in the two languages, but that these shared functions appear to be mediated by the different phonological demands on pitch in the two languages.
Head alignment in German compounds: Implications for prosodic constituency and morphological parsing
(2022)
The notion of head alignment was introduced to account for the observation that in a word with multiple feet, one is more prominent than the others. In particular, this notion is meant to capture the characteristic edge-orientation of main stress by requiring the (left or right) word boundary and the respective (left or right) boundary of the head foot to coincide (McCarthy & Prince 1993). In the present paper the notion of head alignment will be applied to compounds, which are also characterized by the property that one of their members, located in a margin position, is most prominent.
The adequacy of an analysis in terms of head alignment hinges on the question of whether observable prominence peaks associate with the boundaries of independently motivated constituents. It will be argued that such links exist for German compounds, indicating reference to at least three distinct compound categories established on morphological grounds: copulative, phrasal, and a default class of “regular” compounds. The evidence for the relevant distinctions sheds light on morphological parsing, indicating that compound categories can be – and often are – determined by properties pertaining to their complete form, rather than by conditions affecting their (original) construction.