Swiss German Intonation Patterns
Swiss German Intonation Patterns

Author: Adrian Leemann

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9027234906

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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, until today, not been examined systematically. The aim of this study is to analyze natural Swiss German fundamental frequency behavior according to linguistic, paralinguistic, and extralinguistic variables, using statistical tests against the backdrop of detecting dialect-specific patterns as well as cross-dialectal differences. The intonation analyses were conducted with the mathematically-formulated Command-Response model. This is the first large-scale study that applies this framework on a large corpus of natural, dialectal speech. This contribution provides a holistic account of the truly multilayered features of natural speech intonation and brings to light detailed underlying patterns of Swiss German dialectal fundamental frequency behavior. The book is mainly targeted at linguists, speech scientists, as well as dialectologists.

German Intonation
German Intonation

Author: Anthony Fox

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Presents the major features of German intonation for the benefit of the English-speaking reader. Discussing and exemplifying the different types of patterns used by German speakers, it explains their meanings and their relationship to the grammatical structure of the language.

Swiss German Intonation Patterns
Swiss German Intonation Patterns

Author: Adrian Leemann

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2012-07-04

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 9027273847

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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, until today, not been examined systematically. The aim of this study is to analyze natural Swiss German fundamental frequency behavior according to linguistic, paralinguistic, and extralinguistic variables, using statistical tests against the backdrop of detecting dialect-specific patterns as well as cross-dialectal differences. The intonation analyses were conducted with the mathematically-formulated Command-Response model. This is the first large-scale study that applies this framework on a large corpus of natural, dialectal speech. This contribution provides a holistic account of the truly multilayered features of natural speech intonation and brings to light detailed underlying patterns of Swiss German dialectal fundamental frequency behavior. The book is mainly targeted at linguists, speech scientists, as well as dialectologists.

Intonation Patterns in Tyrolean German
Intonation Patterns in Tyrolean German

Author: Geoffrey Barker

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9780820468372

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Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... an electronic text and sound files to give the reader access to the speech samples." -- p. [xv].

Communicative Functions and Linguistic Forms in Speech Interaction: Volume 156
Communicative Functions and Linguistic Forms in Speech Interaction: Volume 156

Author: Klaus J. Kohler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-10-26

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1316762238

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Prosody is generally studied at a separate linguistic level from syntax and semantics. It analyses phonetic properties of utterances such as pitch and prominence, and orders them into phonological categories such as pitch accent, boundary tone, and metrical grid. The goal is to define distinctive formal differentiators of meanings in utterances. But what these meanings are is either excluded or a secondary concern. This book takes the opposite approach, asking what are the basic categories of meaning that speakers want to transmit to listeners? And what formal means do they use to achieve it? It places linguistic form in functions of speech communication, and takes into account all the formal exponents - sounds, words, syntax, prosodies - for specific functional coding. Basic communicative functions such as 'questioning' may be universally assumed, but their coding by linguistic bundles varies between languages. A comparison of function-form systems in English, German and Mandarin Chinese shows this formal diversity for universal functions.