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Applications of AM to Under- described Languages Janet Fletcher University of Melbourne 1

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ApplicationsofAMtoUnder-describedLanguages

JanetFletcherUniversityofMelbourne

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Overview

• ContinuationofourexplorationofAM• HowdoyougoaboutconstructinganAMmodelforunderstudiedlanguages

• wheredoyoustart?• Whatpitfallsshouldyoutryandavoid?

• AMmodelsofagroupofAustralianindigenouslanguages(mainlyNorthernAustralianlanguages)

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Whystudyintonationinunder-describedlanguages?

• ManyearlyAMmodelsofintonationbasedonhandfulofwell-studiedlanguages– English,German,Japanese,French,Italian,Koreanetc.

• Last15yearshasseensignificantincreaseindiversityofnon-Europeanlanguagesthathavebeenanalysed withinanAM(andother)frameworks(e.g.seerefsinJun2005,2014,Burdin etal2015,BaumannandKügler 2015,Féry 2013)

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IntonationalFieldwork

• Relativelyfewofthelanguagesoftheworldhavefullyworkedoutintonationalphonology

• Introduceyoutosomeoftheproceduresthatmighthelpyougoaboutdoingsomeintonationalfieldwork

• Manyhavebeenintroducedalready

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Whatisourgoal?

• It is a major goal of intonational research on any language to sort out what tunes occur in a language and “to be able to make explicit predictions of how a given tune will be realized when it is applied to different texts”. (Ladd 2008: 201)

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Whyaphonologicalmodelofintonation?

• Intonationispartofalanguage’sgrammar• Representationsmust

– Reflectkeyfeaturesofthesystem

– capturemeaningfulcontrasts

• Thesepropertiesallowaspeakeroralearnerto– usetheappropriatemelodyinagivensituation– processF0contoursasinstancesofthesamemelody

independentlyoftheirexactphoneticrealization

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Recappingpointsfromyesterday

• Analysisshouldbeassimpleaspossible• Analysisshouldtakeintoaccountpossiblesourcesofvariation

• Decisionsaboutintonationalcontrastsshouldbeguidedbymeaning

• Itisoktochangeyouranalysisinviewofnewevidence

Arvaniti - TuesdayLecture2

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Warlpiri3000

Arrernte2000

BininjGun-wok>1000

Iwaidja<150

SomeAustralianIndigenouslanguages

Dalabon<5

Mawng300

Pitjantjatjara3000

Dalabonisalmostmoribund.

BininjGun-wok(Kunwinjkuvariety),Pijtantjara,Arrernte arehealthy.

Mawng isstillbeingacquired.

Iwaidjaisdeclining…

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Fallingtunes

Ku-warrde bo-yoy “Waterlayinthecave”

Kunwinjku (BGW)Tones L+H*H*L+H* L% L%L% <H* !H*%L

Words djang ka-yo djangkurrme-ngurrurdungale rr- -inj

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jk01.wav.ptkKundjedjedmi (BGW)

Tones -H -H!H--H H--H L%!H- -H

Words wallpa tjinttunyaullprirrranya pula pikaringangi

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KW2_text1_002.wav.ptk

Walpaulpariranya pulatjintunya pikaringangi.Windsouththeytwosun gotangry.

Pitjantjatjara

Tones L%!H*L+H*

Words ku-warrde bo-yoy

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FIg12-14.wav.ptk

Ngale ngurrurdu djang ka-yo djang-kurrme-rr-inj“Thatemuofoursisadreaming,sheputherselfinthelandscapeasadreaming”

Whatdotheysoundlike?

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Tones H*H*%H H%

Words kah-rla- bokkomarnbo-ng

Break 1 4

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jc22.ptk

Tones H* H%%H HaH*

Words dja-lng ye-me-y--njerrh-balah- djorrkkon

Break 43

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Ajc12.ssd.ptkDalabon

“Theytookalltherockpossums.”

“(hemadeaspear),hemadeahookspear”

Tones H* H%

Words wa::::::mbirri-

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Fig12-7.wav::Channel 1

“Theywentalong……”

Kuninjku

“Stylized”highsustainedcontour

Levelplateau-like

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TwoBroadIntonationalCategories

• Boundaryphenomenaoredge-marking,contributeto“chunking”functionofintonation–boundarytones

• Intonationalphenomenawithinanintonationalchunk– headmarking– prominence-lendingpitchmovements

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• Whatkindsof edgetonesdelimitanintonationalphrase?

• Arephrase-initial/finaledgetones alsoprominence-lendingtones?

Someofthequestionswemightwanttoanswer?

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• Are“prominence-lending”intonationaleventsphoneticallyrealised inandaroundcertainsyllables,i.e.metricallystrongsyllables?

• Are“prominence-lending”tonesattachedtoanysyllableregardlessorstress?

Someofthequestionswemightwanttoanswer?

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Doalllanguageshavethesameintonationalsystem?

• No,someonlyhavephrasetonesorboundarytonestomarktheedges ofchunksofspeechandnopitchaccents

• TendencywhenweapproachAustralianlanguagestowanttoassumetherearepitchaccentsaswellasedgetones

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Why

• Manylanguageshavepreliminarymetrical/wordstressanalyses

• Strongperceivedtrochaicrhythm

• Usefulsourceofhypothesesforexperimentalphoneticinvestigation

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Whatdoesintonationcontributetospokencommunication?

• SentenceModalitye.g.questionversusstatement• Phrasing,discoursesegmentation– “chunking”foreaseofprocessing

• GrammarofFocusmarking;pragmatics– “whatinformationishighlightedbyintonation?”

AfterHimmelmannandLadd2008

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Commonpitfalls

• Assumingthatanexistingtonetargetinventoryforawell-workedoutlanguageorlanguagevarietycaneasilybeappliedtoalessstudiedorunfamiliarlanguage

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Commonpitfalls

• Assumingthat“tunes”inthelanguageYOUspeakwillmeanthesamethingacrossthelanguage(s)youaretryingtoanalyse

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Anexample

Time (s)0 2.188

Pitch

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Mawng19

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AnexampleTones L%H* ^H% H* H*

Words nanj yangube nûnda yabbunh

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peter1.02.wav

Dalabon

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Overgeneralisation

• assumingthattherehastobeafixedsetofphoneticrealisations foratonecategoryi.e.L+H*accentsmustalignpreciselywithasyllablerhyme,berealised inaparticularway(yesterday’sclass)

• descriptiveandtypologicalworkhasshownthisneedstobemorenuanced- somuchcontextualvariation!(e.g Gooden,Beckman,Drayton2009,Hyman2014,Arvaniti 2016)

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• postulatingtoomany“contrastive”intonationalcategoriesbecausetheymeansomethingdifferentinEnglish(forexample)

Eg.PitchaccentinventoryH*+LH+L*^H*H*>,<H*,H*L*L+H*L*+Hetc.- someofthesemaynotbeCONTRASTIVE

• resultofpositionalfactors,contextualvariation,paralinguisticvariationetc.

Undergeneralisation

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Whatisideal?

• phonetically-groundedstudy• “meticulouscontrolofcontextsthatallowsthelinguisttogobeyondsurfaceappearancestoteaseapartthelexicalandphrasalcontributionstothetunesandrhythmsofutterances”

(Gooden,Beckman,Drayton2009,p.398)

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• Sentencemodality- typicalfirststepindocumentingintonationalvariationinanunder-describedlanguage

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Example

Time (s)0 2.822

Pitch

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DalabonNotepitch-halving! 25

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Dalabon– WH-question

mah njing?kardû-kih djah-bi-dorrûngh“Whataboutyou?Maybeyouhavegotsomeonewithyou?"

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Fallingtunes

Tones L+H*H*L+H* L% L%L% <H* !H*%L

Words djang ka-yo djangkurrme-ngurrurdungale rr- -inj

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Hz

jk01.wav.ptkKundjedjedmi (BGW)Tones -H -H!H--H H--H L%!H- -H

Words wallpa tjinttunyaullprirrranya pula pikaringangi

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Hz

KW2_text1_002.wav.ptk

Walpaulpariranya pulatjintunya pikaringangi.Windsouththeytwosun gotangry.

Pitjantjatjara (readspeech)

Ngale ngurrurdu djang ka-yo djang-kurrme-rr-inj“Thatemuofoursisadreaming,sheputherselfinthelandscapeasadreaming”

DeclarativeIntonation

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Whatdoesintonationcontribute?

• Phrasinganddiscoursesegmentation e.g.strongfalling/risingtunescanmarkout“chunks”,pitch-rangeresetalsocontributestodemarcation

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Howmanychunks?

MawngTime (s)

0 2.671

Pitch

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Mawng

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(Question:Isthewomanhittingtheman?)Answer: Jita warrumpik kamanga-w-un warlk

“The woman is hitting the tree.”

L%

SpeakerSB

Tones Lp LpH* L+H* H* L%

Words warrumpik warlkkamangawunjita

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• Sometimesthisisn’tsostraightforward

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AnExample

Time (s)0 1.756

Pitch

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Dalabon– multi-verbIntonationalPhrase

Tones H* L%H*L+H* L+H*Ha H*< Final_LoH*

Words kah-yelûngbulu -berrû-ka-lng bawo-ng-yurd-mi-nj

Break 3 11 4

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Ajc13b.ptk

(Fletcher&Butcher2014,Ross2011)

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Whatdoesintonationcontribute(HimmelmannandLadd2008)?

• Semanticfocus

• Animportantsourceofintonationalvariationinmanylanguagesoftheworld– regardlessofwhetherthelanguagehaslexicaltone,stress,orhasneither!

• (moreonthislaterinthesummerschool!)

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Anexample

Time (s)0 4.28

Pitch

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Startingworkonanunfamilarlanguage

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Whatdoyouneedtoknow?

• Importanttounderstandsomebasicsofthegrammaticaltypologyofalanguage

• Manylanguagesoftheworldarenon-configurational languages

• Wordorderisnotusedtoidentifyargumentstructurecategoriessuchassubject andobjectwhichmayoccurinvariouspositionsintheclause

• Languagesmayuseparticles toindicatefocusoremphasis

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Whatkindofdata?• Widestvarietypossible• Needtobeopportunistic• Needtoworkwithwhateverlinguisticresourcesareavailablefortheparticularlanguage,languagefamily

• Grammars,archives,otherlanguageresources

• Wearenotnativespeakersofanyofthelanguagesweworkon

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Whatkindofdata?• Workwithalinguistifpossiblewhohassomeknowledgeofthelanguage,accesstocommunities

• Itisbasicallyv.difficulttodescribetheintonationofalanguagewheretherearefewlinguisticresources

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Whatkindofdata?• Carefullyconstructedutterances- manipulateword,phraselength,wordorder,context,toworkoutintonation/discourserelations

• Languagescanuseothermeanstomarkgrammaticalfocus- particlesetc.soelicitingdifferenttypesofpragmaticfocusisimportant

• Canbeabigaskinfieldworksettingbutitisimportanttohaveawidevarietyofsourcesanditispossible!

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CanIrelyonpre-recordeddata?• Yes it is possible, but you need to have good

resources to back you up• Narratives can be restrictive – typical kind of

story-telling prosody unless this is a specific research question!

• Much of our earlier work – based on stories

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Recordingspeakers?

• Record several speakers if possible, females and males (not always easy – we have a lot of recordings from women in our latest project)

• Child language acquisition – work with mothers, carers

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Findingspeakers

• Speaker demographics – some speakers may be last remaining speakers of a language

• Helpful to have access to someone in the community (teachers, medical workers) who can help put you in touch with speakers

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Recordingtasks

• Think carefully about recording environment, material construction to facilitate acoustic analysis

• You may not be able to replicate laboratory-like conditions but you can find a quiet room (e.g. School), use uni-directional, head-mounted mikes etc.

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Elicitedorspontaneousdata?

• Cannot assume literacy• Picture-based interactive tasks or games

have been used with some success in many different recording contexts (e.g. Quismaterials developed by Skopoteas et al. 2006, also see also interactive games, tasks outlined in Burdin et al., 2015)

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• Important to tease apart word and phrase-level prosody

• Isolated words form their own prosodic phrase so this is not the place to start, often hyperarticulated, focused

• Need to examine words in the context of a multiword phrase, preferably manipulating position

Startingananalysis

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• If a language has been described by linguists as having “stress” we would expect some kind of non-default pitch movement/target in and around the putatively stressed syllable (e.g. falling, rising, high, low) – not withstanding segmental perturbation effects

• Choose a 3 or 4 syllable word and place it in short declarative utterance

Wheretostart

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Wheretostart?Declarativeutterances

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Whyvariableprominenceplacement?

• Yourpeaksmaymovedependingonthespecificstructureyouaremanipulate

• YourpeaksmayNOTmovewithinthewordbutstayinthesamelocationregardlessofpositioninthesentence

• Thisisgenerallytakenasevidencethatyoumayhavesomethingmorelikestress-accent

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• Tokens of different word length 2-4 syllables

• 2 carrier phrases bobo ngarri-yime‘Isay‘bobo’

yun yimemanjad yimen kunmud.‘don’tsay‘manjad’say‘kunmud’

BininjGun-wok

2syllables

3syllables 4 syllables

bobo ŋabbaɭek kunmaɖdaɖdakodjok wamuddjan kabiridirimakka korroko malambibbikabanj ŋaɖbakkan bikibikikikkik kunduɖu balabbala

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BininjGun-wok

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Example1– BininjGun-wok

Bishop2002,Bishop&Fletcher2005

Alwaysgoodifyoucanalsofindsimilarpatternsinspontaneousnarratives

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Example1– BininjGun-wok

Bishop2002,BishopandFletcher2005

Alwaysgoodifyoucanalsofindsimilarpatternsinspontaneousnarratives

L+H*

H*

Lp

L%

Word/Phraseedge

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Wordedges?• Quitepossiblethatwordsaremarkedoutbytones

• E.g.TamilL*atleftedge,Haatrightedge,tonalmelodymightberealised acrossprosodicword/accentualphrase(e.g.Keane2014)

• Ifthetonalmelodye.g.HLandF0valleyisassociatednearendofword– word-boundarytone

• Ifthevalley(lowF0)isrealised beyondwordboundary–couldbeanAccentualphraseboundarytone

• ThisalsoseemstobethecaseinmanyAustralianlanguagesalthough*tonecaneitherbefirstorsecondsyllable

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Whatifthereisnoword-levelprosody?

JunandFletcher2014,498

Tonalmelodiesmightbespreadacrosstheconstituentasitincreasesinsizeorphrasalmelodymaybeconstrainedbysizeofunit(e.g.truncatedmelodiesinKorean,forexample)

Youmaybedealingwithanaccentualphraseratherthanaprosodicword

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Criteriaforphrasing• AccentualPhrase

– Aprosodicconstituentroughlyintermediatebetweenaprosodicwordandaphrase

– Definedbyapitchcontour(e.g.byinitialandfinalphrasaltones)

– Maybewhatananalysthabeencallingaprosodicword

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Sentencemodality

• Exploreavarietyofsentencemodalities,e.g.questions(yes-no,echoquestions,rhetoricalquestions),imperatives

• Beawareofthecontext!Forexample,questionningmayhavesocio-culturalimplications

• Don’tassumethatrisingtuneswillalwayssignifyquestionsrecallChickasaw(Gordon2005)

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QuestionIntonation

L%L%

L+H*

H*!H*

LaH* H

!H*

“Where areyougoing” SimilarpatternsobservedinotherAustralianlanguages

Dalabon

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“Wh”-Questionwords– MawngQUIScorpus

Tones %L !H*!H*^H*

Words nganti werrkj(a)ingalangaka

150

200

250

300

350

Hz

RS_Tape_46_NN_Inform#2FFC1D.ptk

Questionword

L+^H*

“Whoistheonethatshesentfirst?”

Questions– expandedpitchrangeoninitialquestionword;compressedpitchrangeonfollowingmaterial

!H*

L%

H*Lp

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ManipulatingPragmaticfocus

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Constructeddialoguescanhelp

• Varythewordorder,informationalstructureofanutterancetoseehowfocusisrealised

• ElicitationofInformationalandCorrectiveFocusonnounobjects,subjects• Speaker1:

• A.K-ini-la-ø kiyap Martali• PR-3MA/3MA-eat-NPfish Mangrove.Jack•• “MangroveJackeat fish.”

• Speaker 2:• B.Marrikini-la-ngkiyapMartali• NEG3MA/3MA-eat-l1fishMangrove.Jack•• “MangroveJackdon’teatfish.”

• C.Marrguny k-ini-la-økiyap• Freshwater.Nailfish 3MA/3MA-eat-NPfish•• “Freshwater nailfish eat fish.”

InformationalFocus

Potentialnon-focalcontext

Correctivefocus

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Anexampleofinformationalfocus– FinalSubjects

Fletcheretal.2016“Mullet eatfish”

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Anexampleofcorrectivefocus- Subjects

Fletcheretal.2016

(Mulletdon’teatfish)“Puffer-fisheatfish”

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Informational focus – unscripted speech

:"Theycallitthevelvet-tailedgecko,thisoneisthevelvet-tailedgecko"

L+H*

*HH%

%L

H*

L%

L+H*

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AnnotationConventions

• Recappingyesterday’spoints

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WhattonetargetsdoIchoose?

• Howmanytonelevels?• GermanToBI- 4levelsHL!H^H(Griceetal2005)

• Tamil- 2levelsHL• Syntagmatic vs paradigmatice.g.L+H*!H*• Australianlanguages– 2levelsHL

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Whatabouttonalcomplexity?

• SingletoneHorL• 2tonesequencesLHorHL• 3ormoretargetsLHLorHLHorLHLH- oftenboundarycombinationse.g.HLH%BangladeshiBengali;LHLH%Korean

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Tonaltiming

• Whereismytonealignedinthetext?• Hcanberealised early,late,afterthehostsyllable

• Doyouneedtotranscribethis?Notnecessarily

• HowmightItranscribeit?H*vs H*<inKunwinjku

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Tonaltiming

• DoItranscribearisingprominence-lendingmovementasLHorL+H?

• Dependsonhowvariabletherealisationmightbe- LH*isusedinMawngbecauserisesvary

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AMtonalinventoriesinAustralianlanguages

• Fewertunesi.e.fewerintonationalpitchaccentshapes,boundarytonecombinationscomparedtoGermaniclanguages

• E.g.LH*H*inMawngvs L+H*H*H*+LL*+HL*inAustralianEnglish

• LH%H%L%vs L-L%H-L%H-H%L-H%• -L,-HandH-,L- L%H%inPitjantjara(e.g.Tabain

etal,2012)

• Lp HpinMawng

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Anexampleofamodel- Mawng

IntonationalPhrase(IP)

AP/PhonologicalPhrase AP/PhonologicalPhrase

PW PW| |H* Lp H* L%[[Arri-warnangajpun-n] [Walmuri.]]1pl.in-call.name-NP Puffer.Fish

“WecallitPufferfish.

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Summaryoftonelabels• *astarredtoneisalignedtoaheadsyllable,mora e.g.H*L+H*L*H

• >Delayedpeak• <Earlypeak• +aboundarybetweenTBUs• :prolongedtonetargete.g.H:%• TaoraT Accentualphraseboundary• T- or–TIntermediate(intonational)phraseboundary

• T%or%TIntonationalphraseboundary

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PerceptionandProcessing?

• At the end of the day, we want to document and model meaningful intonational variation in languages that have AM models

• Are speakers sensitive to prominence-lending pitch movements in different contexts (the old “is this really stress” problem?)

• If you have analysed different acoustic correlates of accentual prominence – are these actually perceptible?

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TakeHomeMessage• Don’t assume that strong F0 peaks and valleys

are due to stress in non-lexical tone languages - tones/tunes may have flexible docking arrangements i.e. first/second syllable of initial word, anywhere in first foot (e.g. Bininj Gun-wok, Mawng Bishop 2002, Hellmuth et al. 2007)

• Be prepared that there may not be the same variety of tone categories that are found in English, German, Dutch, Greek, Italian, Spanish…

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TakeHomeMessage• There may be more than one phonetic

realization of a single tonal category (e.g. prominence lending F0 peaks that are realisedon a syllable or show “peak delay” – i.e. F0 peak delay on a following syllable – may be one and the same pitch accent

• Be prepared to test and modify your anlysis as more phonetic data come on line

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TakeHomeMessage

• Look closely at phrasing and pitch range in all types of languages - chunking happens in all languages!

• Assume some kind of underlying symbolic structure – meaning is not directly transducedfrom the F0 signal!

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