How pitch change and final lengthening cue boundary perception in German: converging evidence from ERPs and prosodic judgements
- 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.
Author details: | Julia Holzgrefe-LangGND, Caroline WellmannORCiD, Caterina Petrone, Romy Raeling, Hubert Truckenbrodt, Barbara HöhleORCiDGND, Isabell WartenburgerORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2016.1157195 |
ISSN: | 2327-3798 |
ISSN: | 2327-3801 |
Title of parent work (English): | Language, cognition and neuroscience |
Publisher: | Begell House |
Place of publishing: | Abingdon |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2016 |
Publication year: | 2016 |
Release date: | 2020/03/22 |
Tag: | Closure Positive Shift (CPS); Event-Related Potential (ERP) technique; Speech perception; prosodic boundary cues; prosody |
Volume: | 31 |
Number of pages: | 17 |
First page: | 904 |
Last Page: | 920 |
Funding institution: | German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) [FR 2865/2-1, HO 1960/13-1] |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Exzellenzbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |