Evidence for attractors in English intonation

Braun, Bettina; Kochanski, Greg; Grabe, Esther; Rosner, Burton

Evidence for attractors in English intonation

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2006

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Braun, Bettina

Kochanski, Greg

Grabe, Esther

Rosner, Burton

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Open Access Green

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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2006, 119(6), pp. 4006-4015. ISSN 0001-4966. Available under: doi: 10.1121/1.2195267

Zusammenfassung

Although the pitch of the human voice is continuously variable, some linguists contend that intonation in speech is restricted to a small, limited set of patterns. This claim is tested by asking subjects to mimic a block of 100 randomly generated intonation contours and then to imitate themselves in several successive sessions. The produced f 0 contours gradually converge towards a limited set of distinct, previously recognized basic English intonation patterns. These patterns are “attractors” in the space of possible intonation English contours. The convergence does not occur immediately. Seven of the ten participants show continued convergence toward their attractors after the ﬁrst iteration. Subjects retain and use information beyond phonological contrasts, suggesting that intonational phonology is not a complete description of their mental representation of intonation.

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400 Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik

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BRAUN, Bettina, Greg KOCHANSKI, Esther GRABE, Burton ROSNER, 2006. Evidence for attractors in English intonation. In: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2006, 119(6), pp. 4006-4015. ISSN 0001-4966. Available under: doi: 10.1121/1.2195267

BibTex

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  doi={10.1121/1.2195267},
  title={Evidence for attractors in English intonation},
  number={6},
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  journal={The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  pages={4006--4015},
  author={Braun, Bettina and Kochanski, Greg and Grabe, Esther and Rosner, Burton}
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