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Typical and rare post-nuclear melodic movements in Russian. / Kachkovskaia, Tatiana ; Mamushina, Anna ; Portnova, Alyona.
Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020. Vol. 2020-May 2020. p. 464-468 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Typical and rare post-nuclear melodic movements in Russian
AU - Kachkovskaia, Tatiana
AU - Mamushina, Anna
AU - Portnova, Alyona
N1 - Conference code: 10
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Russian intonation is traditionally described in terms of nuclei, pre-nuclei and post-nuclei. Nowadays accurate data is available on the melodic movement within the nucleus and pre-nucleus. The post-nuclei (tails) lack detailed descriptions, probably because (a) long post-nuclei are quite rare and (b) post-nuclei are often treated as automatic and unable to affect the meaning of the phrase or add extra connotations. In this paper we describe the variability of post-nuclear melodic movements for the most frequent types of nuclei. The material was a large labelled Russian speech corpus (CORPRES). We analyzed IPs with long post-nuclei in terms of direction of melodic movement within the post-nucleus and intervals. This enabled us to find typical and rare tail movements. Then, we performed a perception experiment to determine how native speakers perceive phrases with non-typical movements within the post-nucleus. For this, typical realizations were modified into falling to low, level high and rising to very high. The experiment showed that in most cases the modified signal differed from the original. Modifications into rising movements often contained additional connotations, mostly “non-finality”. Modifications into falling movements were rarely described as having additional connotations.
AB - Russian intonation is traditionally described in terms of nuclei, pre-nuclei and post-nuclei. Nowadays accurate data is available on the melodic movement within the nucleus and pre-nucleus. The post-nuclei (tails) lack detailed descriptions, probably because (a) long post-nuclei are quite rare and (b) post-nuclei are often treated as automatic and unable to affect the meaning of the phrase or add extra connotations. In this paper we describe the variability of post-nuclear melodic movements for the most frequent types of nuclei. The material was a large labelled Russian speech corpus (CORPRES). We analyzed IPs with long post-nuclei in terms of direction of melodic movement within the post-nucleus and intervals. This enabled us to find typical and rare tail movements. Then, we performed a perception experiment to determine how native speakers perceive phrases with non-typical movements within the post-nucleus. For this, typical realizations were modified into falling to low, level high and rising to very high. The experiment showed that in most cases the modified signal differed from the original. Modifications into rising movements often contained additional connotations, mostly “non-finality”. Modifications into falling movements were rarely described as having additional connotations.
KW - Intonation
KW - Russian
KW - post-nucleus
KW - melody
KW - perception of intonation
KW - Perception of intonation
KW - Melody
KW - Post-nucleus
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U2 - 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-95
DO - 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-95
M3 - Conference contribution
VL - 2020-May
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody
SP - 464
EP - 468
BT - Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020
Y2 - 25 May 2020 through 28 May 2020
ER -
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