Alignment and pitch-accent identification — Implications from F0 peak and plateau contours (original) (raw)
The study scrutinizes the role of alignment of F0 move-ments in identifying two different pitch accents. Although this general issue was addressed for German, the pitch-accent contrast that was studied occurs cross-linguistically and is known as 'early' vs. 'medial' or H+L* vs. L+H*. The early pitch accent reaches the F0-peak maximum befo-re the accented-vowel onset and hence falls into the vowel, while the medial pitch accent peaks after the vowel onset. This alignment-based identification model was recently un-dermined by studies that varied the slopes and ranges of the F0 movements or the extension of the F0-peak maximum. The latter parameter is taken up in the present perception experiments. Starting from a pointed rising-falling peak ali-gned at the accented-vowel onset, a peak and a plateau series were resynthesized by shifting either the entire peak or just the rising or falling movement into and away from the ac-cented vowel. The peak and plateau stimuli were...
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