TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zerbian, Sabine
T1  - Prosodic marking of narrow focus across varieties of South African English
JF  - English world-wide : a journal of varieties of English
N2  - This paper reports on an elicited production study which investigates prosodic marking of narrow focus in modified noun phrases in varieties of South African English. The acoustic analysis of fundamental frequency, intensity, and duration in narrow focus is presented and discussed. The results suggest that these three acoustic parameters are manipulated differently in narrow focus in the varieties of English as a Second Language as compared to General South African English. The article compares the results to what is known about prosodic marking of information structure in other varieties of English as a Second Language and underlines the necessity of carefully controlled data in the investigation of phonological and phonetic variation in varieties of English.
KW  - South African English
KW  - Black South African English
KW  - English as a Second Language (ESL)
KW  - prosody
KW  - focus
KW  - fundamental frequency
KW  - intensity
KW  - duration
KW  - contact variety
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.34.1.02zer
SN  - 0172-8865
VL  - 34
IS  - 1
SP  - 26
EP  - 47
PB  - Benjamins
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Huttenlauch, Clara
A1  - Beer, Carola de
A1  - Hanne-Kloth, Sandra
A1  - Wartenburger, Isabell
T1  - Production of prosodic cues in coordinate name sequences addressing varying interlocutors
JF  - Laboratory phonology
N2  - Prosodic boundaries can be used to disambiguate the syntactic structure of coordinated name sequences (coordinates). To answer the question whether disambiguating prosody is produced in a situationally dependent or independent manner and to contribute to our understanding of the nature of the prosody-syntax link, we systematically explored variability in the prosody of boundary productions of coordinates evoked by different contextual settings in a referential communication task. Our analysis focused on prosodic boundaries produced to distinguish sequences with different syntactic structures (i.e., with or without internal grouping of the constituents). In German, these prosodic boundaries are indicated by three major prosodic cues: f0-range, final lengthening, and pause. In line with the Proximity/Anti-Proximity principle of the syntax-prosody model by Kentner and Fery (2013), speakers clearly use all three cues for constituent grouping and prosodically mark groups within and at their right boundary, indicating that prosodic phrasing is not a local phenomenon. Intra-individually, we found a rather stable prosodic pattern across contexts. However, inter-individually speakers differed from each other with respect to the prosodic cue combinations that they (consistently) used to mark the boundaries. Overall, our data speak in favour of a close link between syntax and prosody and for situational independence of disambiguating prosody.
KW  - Prosodic boundaries
KW  - prosodic cues
KW  - coordinates
KW  - varying interlocutors
KW  - variability
KW  - f0
KW  - duration
KW  - pre-final lengthening
KW  - pause
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.221
SN  - 1868-6346
SN  - 1868-6354
VL  - 12
IS  - 1
PB  - Ubiquity Press
CY  - London
ER  -