Prosodic Detail in Neapolitan Italian
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Contents
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Language
English
ISBN
978-3-944675-01-5
Introduction
Intonation between exemplars and abstraction
Prosodic detail
Modelling perception of speech
Speech perception
Word recognition
Exemplar-based models
Phonetic detail
Context beyond phonemes in word recognition
Present exclusion from phonological representations
Prosodic detail
An alternative to phonology
A resource for phonology
Neapolitan Italian intonation
Neapolitan Italian
The Autosegmental-Metrical framework
Neapolitan Italian intonation
Structure of this book
Production and perception
Intonation and tempo
Sentence modality contrasts
Melodic detail in production
Introduction
Background
Hypotheses
Phonological analysis
Pragmatic contexts
Pitch accents
Edge tones and phrasing
Method
Corpus
Measures
Indices
Results
Alignment
Scaling
Shape
Summary of results
Discussion
Contour shape in other contrasts
Turn management and utterance final rises in German
Modality and prenuclear fall in Italian and German
Enriching inventories or grammars?
Segmental and suprasegmental phonology
Solidity of functional contrasts
Implicit compositionality of intonational meaning
Conclusion
Perception of melodic detail
Introduction
Experiment 1
Background
Hypotheses
Method
Results
Discussion
Experiment 2
Background
Hypotheses
Method
Results
Discussion
General discussion
Possible task improvements
A broader research question
Conclusion
Temporal detail in production
Introduction
Material
Corpora
Orlando
Danser
Recordings
Forced alignment
Experiment 1
Background
Hypotheses
Method
Results
Discussion
Experiment 2
Background
Hypotheses
Method
Results
Discussion
Post-hoc analysis
Interpretation of the results
General discussion
Universality and specificity
Tempo (and intonation)
Conclusion
Perception of temporal detail
Introduction
Two views of tempo
Hypotheses
Method
Operationalization
Material
Results
Orthogonality hypothesis
Nesting hypothesis
Discussion
Design-related issues
Resynthesis
Reaction times
Spin-off
Epistemological issues
Conclusion
Conclusion
Summary of findings
Intonation
Tempo
Production and perception
Tools for prosodic detail research
Automatic Speech Segmentation for Italian
Multi-parametric continuous resynthesis
Theoretical implications
Exemplar prosody
Substance, form and function
Bibliography
Name index
Subject index
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