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Department of Linguistics

SPEECH ACOUSTICS

The Acoustic Correlates of Prosody

Robert Mannell

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Revision

Before commencing this topic you should revise the following phonology topic:-

Lecture

In this topic we examine the following issues:-

  1. What is prosody?
  2. Major phonological components of prosody
  3. Major physical correlates of prosody
  4. Prosody and related phenomena
  5. Neural control
  6. Fundamental frequency, pitch and intonation
  7. Intonation and tone
  8. Juncture
  9. Prosodic phrases
  10. Ambient levels of the acoustic correlates of prosody
  11. Stress and cue trading
  12. Prosody and coarticulation

Goals of this Topic

At the completion of this topic you should have:-

  1. an understanding of the nature of prosody and its acoustic correlates

You should be able to answer the following question:-

  1. How are the acoustic correlates of prosody affected by changes in a syllable's accent status (ie. accented vs. non-accented) and position in an intonational phrase?

Readings

  1. Jonathan Harrington and Steve Cassidy (1999) Techniques in Speech Acoustics, Kulwer, Dordrecht (section 4.6)
  2. John Clark, Collin Yallop, and Janet Fletcher, J. (2007), An introduction to phonetics and phonology, 3rd edition. (chapter 5)