Cue equivalence in prosodic entrainment for focus detection

Martin Ho Kwan Ip, Anne Cutler

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Abstract

![CDATA[Using a phoneme detection task, the present series of experiments examines whether listeners can entrain to different combinations of prosodic cues to predict where focus will fall in an utterance. The stimuli were recorded by four female native speakers of Australian English who happened to have used different prosodic cues to produce sentences with prosodic focus: a combination of duration cues, mean and maximum F0, F0 range, and longer pre-target interval before the focused word onset, only mean F0 cues, only pre-target interval, and only duration cues. Results revealed that listeners can entrain in almost every condition except for where duration was the only reliable cue. Our findings suggest that listeners are flexible in the cues they use for focus processing.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 4-7 December 2018, Sydney, Australia
PublisherThe Australasian Speech Science & Technology Association
Pages153-156
Number of pages4
Publication statusPublished - 2018
EventAustralasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology -
Duration: 4 Dec 2018 → …

Publication series

Name
ISSN (Print)2207-1296

Conference

ConferenceAustralasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
Period4/12/18 → …

Keywords

  • English language
  • phonemics
  • semantic prosody
  • speech perception
  • Australia

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