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The prosody of German: assignment in relation to syntax, anchoring of tones, and effects on phonetic height| old_uid | 7713 |
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| title | The prosody of German: assignment in relation to syntax, anchoring of tones, and effects on phonetic height |
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| start_date | 2009/11/27 |
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| schedule | 10h15-11h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle de conféérences |
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| summary | In this talk, I present an analysis of core elements of German prosody in the context of cross-linguistic generative assumptions about the analysis of
prosodic structure (see Selkirk 1995, Gussenhoven 2004, Pierrehumbert 1980).
I suggest that the prosodic structure in German, where not shaped by focus, is assigned by the interaction of a few interface constraints. At the core of these is Stress-XP, which enforces a beat of phrasal stress (ultimately: a pitch accent) on each lexical XP of the syntactic structure. Phonological phrases (or accentual phrases) are then built around these beats of stress according to additional constraints.
This prosodic structure serves as anchor to tones in stressed positions (pitch accents) and at prosodic edges (edge tones). There is, in addition, a phonetic effect of the prosodic structure on the tones associated with it. Experimental results bearing on this are presented in the second part of the talk. As will be shown, they lead to a model of tonal height in which prosodic levels (phonological phrase, intonation phrase) play a prominent role.
References
Gussenhoven, Carlos. 2004. The phonology of tone and intonation. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Pierrehumbert, Janet B. 1980. The phonology and phonetics of English
intonation, Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Selkirk, Elisabeth. 1995. The prosodic structure of function words. In Papers
in Optimality Theory. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers 18, ed. Jill Beckman, Laura Walsh Dickey, and Suzanne Urbanczyk, 439-469. Amherst, Mass: GLSA. |
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| responsibles | Faraco, Bertrand |
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