Project 8: Prosodic structure and FPD: segmental-suprasegmental interaction
The aim of this project is to elucidate how disparate acoustic parameters covary to cause language-specific interpretations of prosodic properties and conversational functions. S2S partners differ widely in their methods. Intonologists use laboratory phonology to produce formal phonological descriptions of f0. Conversation Analysts study functional roles of correlated phonetic parameters in conversations. The S2S groups have expertise in virtually all paradigms used to explore prosodic structure and its interaction with segments, and will use pairs of languages which are more closely related (Dutch-English, French-Italian) or less closely related (initially Czech, extended if possible to other S2S languages). Intonation systems differ in each of these pairs to a greater or lesser extent. Cross-linguistic comparisons will show to what extent the dependencies are language-specific.
Working on this project: » Dr Brechtje Post » Prof MariaPaola D'Imperio » Prof Carlos Gussenhoven » Prof Noël Nguyen » Prof Zdena Palková » Meg Zellers » Francesco Cangemi » Prof David House
