Project D3

1st Phase - Signal parameters connected to prominence and phrasing within spoken utterances in different languages

The goal of the phonetics project D3 is twofold:

  • service will be provided to all other projects of the SFB with respect to phonetic analysis and annotation of audio material as well as construction of auditory stimulus material; furthermore, the project will be responsible for the management of the signal based sector of the database system of the SFB;
  • an extensive and thorough bottom up analysis and perceptual evaluation of acoustical parameters used to signalling information structur should be carried out using (spontaneously) spoken material from typologically different languages. This acoustic study aims at developing a general system for (categorical) prosodic annotation of acoustic speech signals. Prosody will be understood in the broad sense here, including not only intonation proper but also inter alia parameters like pitch register, loudness modulations, segmental durations, pausing, speech rate and voice quality variations or changes in articulatory effort in their interacting role for signalling information structure.

Principal Investigators

  • Prof. Dr. Bernd Pompino-Marschall

Former Staff Members

  • Dr. Stefanie Jannedy

Activities

November 2006 Colloquium Socially Structured Variation in Englisch. Colloquium am Institut für Anglistik & Amerikanistik, Universität Hamburg.
August 2006 Lecture Jannedy, S. & Fiedler, I.: Prosody of Focus Marking in Ewe. Colloquium. Leiden University: Colloquium on African Languages & Linguistics (CALL).
June 2006 Lecture Jannedy, S. & Fiedler, I.: Prosodic Edge Marking in Ewe. First International Conference of the SFB-632 - Information Structure between Linguistic Theory and Empirical methods.
June 2006 Poster Jannedy, S. & Fiedler, I.:Prosodic Edge Marking in Ewe. First International Conference of the SFB-632 - Information Structure between Linguistic Theory and Empirical methods.
June 2006 Lecture Pompino-Marschall, B.: Tone, intrinsic f0, and intonational focus marking in Chichewa. First International Conference of the SFB-632 - Information Structure between Linguistic Theory and Empirical methods.
January 2006 Lecture Jannedy, S. & Mendoza-Denton, N.: Semiotic Layering in Intonation & Gesture. Annual Meeting - Linguistic Society of America in Albuquerque, NM, USA.
September 2005 Colloquium How Co-Speech-Gestures Aid in Structuring Information. Colloquium University College Dublin.
July 2005 Colloquium Pragmatic Competence in Spoken Englisch. (The Social Life of Pragmatics). Colloquium am Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
June 2005 Poster Downing, L., Mtenje, A. & Pompino-Marschall, B.: Non-accentual Prosodic Cues to Focus in a Tone Language: the case of Ntcheu Chichewa. Poster at the Between Stress and Tone Conference, Leiden University
January 2004 Lecture Jannedy, S.: Variation and Cognition: An Overview. Annual Meeting - Linguistic Society of America in Boston, USA.
November 2004 Lecture Mendoza-Denton, N. & Jannedy, S.: The Correlation between Gesture and Intonation in Political Discourse. High Desert Linguistic Society in Albuquerque, NM, USA.
January 2004 Workshop Jannedy, S. & Hay, J.: Variation and Cognition. Annual Meeting - Linguistic Society of America in Boston, USA.
November 2004 Colloquium Jannedy, S. & Hay, J.: Gesture, Intonation, and the Public Squere. Colloquium at the Department of Linguistics and Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA.