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Swiss German intonation patterns /
Switzerland is renowned for having a diverse linguistic and dialectal landscape in a comparatively small and confined space. Possibly, this is one of the reasons why Swiss German dialects have been investigated thoroughly on various linguistic levels. Nevertheless, natural speech intonation has, unt...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2012.
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| Colección: | Studies in language variation ;
v. 10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Swiss German Intonation Patterns; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Abbreviations used; SAMPA reference; Introduction; Intonation; 2.1 Defining intonation; 2.2 Intonation phrase; 2.3 Declination and pitch reset; 2.4 Stress and accent; 2.4.1 Prominence; 2.4.2 Stress; 2.4.3 Accent; 2.5 Pitch range; 2.6 Functions of intonation; 2.6.1 Information structuring; 2.6.1.1 Phrase accent and focus.; 2.6.1.2 Semantically determined focal accents; 2.6.1.3 Focus effects; 2.6.2 Paralinguistic; 2.6.2.1 Prosodic paragraphing; 2.6.2.2 Conversational; 2.6.3 Non-linguistic functions.
- Intonation models3.1 Autosegmental
- metrical phonology: ToB; 3.1.1 Fundamental principles; 3.1.2 Tone and Break Indices (ToBI); 3.1.3 Shortcomings; 3.2 Other intonation models; Command-Response Model: Fujisaki; 4.1 Origins; 4.2 Mathematical formulation; 4.3 Underlying physical and physiological principles; 4.4 Model parameters: Characteristics and linguistic interpretation; 4.4.1 Fb; 4.4.2 Phrase component; 4.4.2.1 Linguistic interpretation; 4.4.3 Accent component; 4.4.3.1 Linguistic interpretation; 4.5 Earlier applications to german; 4.5.1 Möbius; 4.5.2 Mixdorff.
- 4.5.3 Shortcomings of the model4.6 Strengths
- why the fujisaki model was chosen for this study; 4.6.1 High degree of accuracy of generated f0 contours; 4.6.2 Superposition; 4.6.3 Selective concatenation with segments; 4.6.4 Resynthesis; 4.6.5 Replication; 4.6.6 Physiological justification; Swiss German; 5.1 Language use; 5.2 Existing literature on swiss german dialects; 5.3 Previous work on swiss german intonation; 5.3.1 Contributions to Swiss German Grammar; 5.3.1.1 Bern Swiss German; 5.3.1.2 Grisons Swiss German; 5.3.1.3 Valais Swiss German; 5.3.1.4 Zurich Swiss German.
- 5.3.2 MA Theses 1971-20005.3.3 Fitzpatrick's (1999) "The Alpine Intonation of Bern Swiss German"; 5.3.4 Studies on Swiss Standard German; 5.3.5 Results from speech synthesis research; 5.3.5.1 Pauses; 5.3.5.2 Phrasing; 5.3.5.3 Timing; 5.3.5.4 Intonation; 5.3.6 Preliminary summary of previous work on Swiss German intonation; Methods; 6.1 Dialects chosen; 6.1.1 Brig
- VS; 6.1.2 Bern
- BE; 6.1.3 Chur
- GR; 6.1.4 Winterthur
- ZH; 6.2 Subjects chosen; 6.3 Data collection; 6.3.1 Recording devices; 6.3.2 Interview setting and material; 6.3.3 Interview effects; 6.4 Data preparation.
- 6.4.1 Transcription6.4.2 Segmentation; 6.4.3 Annotation; 6.4.3.1 Annotation on the syllabic level; 6.4.3.2 Linguistic variables; 6.4.3.3 Paralinguistic variables; 6.4.3.4 Non-linguistic variables; Application of the Fujisaki model; 7.1 Linguistic interpretation of the model components; 7.1.1 Fb; 7.1.2 Phrase component; 7.1.3 Accent component; 7.2 Parameter configuration; 7.2.1 Fb; 7.2.2 Phrase component; 7.2.3 Accent component; 7.3 Modeling; 7.3.1 Pre-processing; 7.3.2 Modeling procedure; 7.3.2.1 Modeling constraints for PCs; 7.3.2.2 Modeling constraints for ACs; 7.3.2.3 LPC-resynthesis.