Prosody

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Prosody

• Information structuring in English dialogue
• class 4

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Prosody in dialogues

• Stress, Intonation, Phrasing
• Physiological production
• Function
• Acoustic properties (phonetic correlates)

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Intonation

• Physiology Pitch height
• Acoustic correlate F0 (fundamental frequency
• Function grammatical, structuring, emotion

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Transcription of intonation

• ToBI
• Pitch accents H, L, LH, !H
• Last pitch accentnucleus
• boundary tones H L
• H !H H
  HL

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Stress

• Physiology air pressure
• Acoustic correlate high intensity, high pitch,
  longer duration
• Function accents, focus
• Transcription banana

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Phrasing

• Physiology of phrase boundary silence
• Acoustic correlates pause, pre-pausal
  lengthening, pre-pausal nucleus, anacrusis
• Function information structuring
• Transcription Anna liebt Peter aber nicht