TY - GEN
T1 - Uptalk interpretation as a function of listening experience
AU - Asano, Y.
AU - Yuan, C.
AU - Grohe, A. -K.
AU - Weber, A.
AU - Antoniou, M.
AU - Cutler, A.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - ![CDATA[The term “uptalk” describes utterance-final pitch rises that carry no sentence-structural information. Uptalk is usually dialectal or sociolectal, and Australian English (AusEng) is particularly known for this attribute. We ask here whether experience with an uptalk variety affects listeners’ ability to categorise rising pitch contours on the basis of the timing and height of their onset and offset. Listeners were two groups of English-speakers (AusEng, and American English, henceforth AmEng), and three groups of listeners with L2 English: one group with Mandarin as L1 and experience of listening to AusEng, one with German as L1 and experience of listening to AusEng, and one with German as L1 but no AusEng experience. They heard nouns (e.g., flower, piano) in the framework “Got a NOUN”, each ending with a pitch rise artificially manipulated on three contrasts: low vs. high rise onset, low vs. high rise offset and early vs. late rise onset. Their task was to categorise the tokens as “question” or “statement”, and we analysed the effect of the pitch contrasts on their judgements. Only the native AusEng listeners were able to use the pitch contrasts systematically in making these categorisations.]]
AB - ![CDATA[The term “uptalk” describes utterance-final pitch rises that carry no sentence-structural information. Uptalk is usually dialectal or sociolectal, and Australian English (AusEng) is particularly known for this attribute. We ask here whether experience with an uptalk variety affects listeners’ ability to categorise rising pitch contours on the basis of the timing and height of their onset and offset. Listeners were two groups of English-speakers (AusEng, and American English, henceforth AmEng), and three groups of listeners with L2 English: one group with Mandarin as L1 and experience of listening to AusEng, one with German as L1 and experience of listening to AusEng, and one with German as L1 but no AusEng experience. They heard nouns (e.g., flower, piano) in the framework “Got a NOUN”, each ending with a pitch rise artificially manipulated on three contrasts: low vs. high rise onset, low vs. high rise offset and early vs. late rise onset. Their task was to categorise the tokens as “question” or “statement”, and we analysed the effect of the pitch contrasts on their judgements. Only the native AusEng listeners were able to use the pitch contrasts systematically in making these categorisations.]]
KW - English language
KW - listening
KW - speech perception
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:56080
U2 - 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-150
DO - 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-150
M3 - Conference Paper
SP - 735
EP - 739
BT - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody, May 25-28, 2020, Tokyo, Japan
PB - International Speech Communications Association
T2 - International Conference on Speech Prosody
Y2 - 25 May 2020
ER -