Microprosodic variability in plosives in German and Austrian German

Margaret Zellers; Barbara Schuppler

doi:10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2353

Microprosodic variability in plosives in German and Austrian German

Margaret Zellers, Barbara Schuppler

Institute of Signal Processing and Speech Communication (4420)

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Abstract

Fundamental frequency (F0) contours may show slight, microprosodic variations in the vicinity of plosive segments, which may have distinctive patterns relative to the place of articulation and voicing. Similarly, plosive bursts have distinctive characteristics associated with these articulatory features. The current study investigates the degree to which such microprosodic variations arise in two varieties of German, and how the two varieties differ. We find that microprosodic effects indeed arise in F0 as well as burst intensity and Center of Gravity, but that the extent of the variability is different in the two varieties under investigation, with northern German tending towards more variability in the microprosody of plosives than Austrian German. Coarticulatory effects on the burst with the following segment also arise, but also have different features in the two varieties. This evidence is consistent with the possibility that the fortis-lenis contrast is not equally stable in Austrian German and northern German.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Interspeech
Place of Publication	Shanghai
Pages	656-660
Number of pages	5
Volume	2020-October
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2353
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2020
Event	21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: INTERSPEECH 2020 - Shanghai, Virtual, China Duration: 25 Oct 2020 → 29 Oct 2020

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
ISSN (Print)	2308-457X

Conference

Conference	21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
Abbreviated title	Interspeech 2020
Country/Territory	China
City	Shanghai, Virtual
Period	25/10/20 → 29/10/20

Keywords

Austrian German
Bursts
F0
German
Microprosody
Phonetic detail
Phrase boundaries
Plosives

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Signal Processing
Language and Linguistics
Human-Computer Interaction
Modelling and Simulation

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Microprosodic variability in plosives in German and Austrian German. / Zellers, Margaret; Schuppler, Barbara.
Proceedings of Interspeech. Vol. 2020-October Shanghai, 2020. p. 656-660 (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH).

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Zellers, M & Schuppler, B 2020, Microprosodic variability in plosives in German and Austrian German. in Proceedings of Interspeech. vol. 2020-October, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Shanghai, pp. 656-660, 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Shanghai, Virtual, China, 25/10/20. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2353

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