TY  - JOUR
A1  - Holzgrefe-Lang, Julia
A1  - Wellmann, Caroline
A1  - Petrone, Caterina
A1  - Raeling, Romy
A1  - Truckenbrodt, Hubert
A1  - Höhle, Barbara
A1  - Wartenburger, Isabell
T1  - How pitch change and final lengthening cue boundary perception in German: converging evidence from ERPs and prosodic judgements
T2  - Language, cognition and neuroscience
N2  - This study examines the role of pitch and final lengthening in German intonation phrase boundary (IPB) perception. Since a prosody-related event-related potential (ERP) component termed Closure Positive Shift reflects the processing of major prosodic boundaries, we combined ERP and behavioural measures (i.e. a prosodic judgement task) to systematically test the impact of sole and combined cue occurrences on IPB perception. In two experiments we investigated whether adult listeners perceived an IPB in acoustically manipulated speech material that contained none, one, or two of the prosodic boundary cues. Both ERP and behavioural results suggest that pitch and final lengthening cues have to occur in combination to trigger IPB perception. Hence, the combination of behavioural and electrophysiological measures provides a comprehensive insight into prosodic boundary cue perception in German and leads to an argument in favour of interrelated cues from the frequency (i.e. pitch change) and the time (i.e. final lengthening) domain.
KW  - Speech perception
KW  - prosody
KW  - Event-Related Potential (ERP) technique
KW  - Closure Positive Shift (CPS)
KW  - prosodic boundary cues
Y1  - 2016
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45774
SN  - 2327-3798
SN  - 2327-3801
VL  - 31
SP  - 904
EP  - 920
PB  - Begell House
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -