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oa Fixed stress as phonological redundancy

Effects on production and perception in Hungarian and other languages

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  • Author(s): Irene Vogel 1
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    1 University of Delaware
  • Source: Approaches to Hungarian , pp 187-206
  • Publication Date April 2020

From the perspective of word prosody, fixed stress languages such as Hungarian may seem rather uninteresting: stress, by definition, always falls on the same position in a word. This paper examines the acoustic properties of Hungarian stress based on a large, systematically collected, corpus and considers them in relation to issues of redundancy in speech production and in speech perception (stress deafness). The Hungarian findings also serve as the basis of comparison for languages with other types of stress systems, analysed with the same methods: Turkish, Arabic and Spanish. It is demonstrated that stress predictability affects both speech production and perception, and also that its effect may be mitigated by exceptions in otherwise predictable stress languages.

  • Affiliations: 1: University of Delaware

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    2017 Acoustic properties of prominence and foot structure in Arabic. In H. Ouali (ed.), Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIX. Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2015, 55–88. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 10.1075/sal.5.04vog
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References

  1. Altmann, H.
    2006  The perception and production of second language stress: A cross-linguistic experimental study . PhD Dissertation. University of Delaware.
     [Google Scholar]
  2. Aylett, M. & A. Turk
    2004 The smooth signal redundancy hypothesis: A functional explanation for relationships between redundancy, prosodic prominence, and duration in spontaneous speech. Language and Speech 47(1). 31–56. 10.1177/00238309040470010201
     https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309040470010201 [Google Scholar]
  3. Athanasopoulou, A. , I. Vogel & H. Dolatian
    2017 Acoustic properties of canonical and non-canonical stress in French, Turkish, Armenian and Brazilian Portuguese. Proceedings of Interspeech 2017 . Stockholm, Sweden. 10.21437/Interspeech.2017‑1514
     https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1514 [Google Scholar]
  4. Domahs, U. , R. Wiese , I. Bornkessel-Schlesewsky , & M. Schlesewsky
    2008 The processing of German word stress: Evidence for the prosodic hierarchy. Phonology25. 1–36. 10.1017/S0952675708001383
     https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952675708001383 [Google Scholar]
  5. Domahs, U. , S. Genc , J. Knaus , R. Wiese & B. Kabak
    2012a Processing (un-) predictable word stress: ERP evidence from Turkish. Language and Cognitive Processes28(3). 335–354. 10.1080/01690965.2011.634590
     https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2011.634590 [Google Scholar]
  6. Domahs, U. , J. Knaus , P. Orzechowska & R. Wiese
    2012b Stress “deafness” in a language with fixed word stress: An ERP study on Polish. Frontiers in Psychology3. 1–15. 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00439
     https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00439 [Google Scholar]
  7. Domahs, U. , J. Knaus , H. El Shanawany & R. Wiese
    2014 The role of predictability and structure in word stress processing: An ERP study on Cairene Arabic and a cross-linguistic comparison. Frontiers in Psychology5. 1–18. 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01151
     https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01151 [Google Scholar]
  8. Dupoux, E. , N. Sebastián-Gallés , E. Navarrete & S. Peperkamp
    2008 Persistent stress “deafness”: The case of French learners of Spanish. Cognition106. 682–706. 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.04.001
     https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2007.04.001 [Google Scholar]
  9. Dupoux, E. , S. Peperkamp , & N. Sebastián-Galles
    2001 A robust method to study stress “deafness.”The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 110. 1606–1618. 10.1121/1.1380437
     https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1380437 [Google Scholar]
  10. Dupoux, E. , C. Pallier , N. Sebastian , & J. Mehler
    1997 A destressing “deafness” in French?Journal of Memory and Language36. 406–421. 10.1006/jmla.1996.2500
     https://doi.org/10.1006/jmla.1996.2500 [Google Scholar]
  11. Kabak, B. , & I. Vogel
    2001 The phonological word and stress assignment in Turkish. Phonology18. 315–360. 10.1017/S0952675701004201
     https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952675701004201 [Google Scholar]
  12. Knaus, J. , & U. Domahs
    2009 Experimental evidence for optimal and minimal metrical structure of German word prosody. Lingua119: 1396–1413. 10.1016/j.lingua.2008.04.002
     https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2008.04.002 [Google Scholar]
  13. Knaus, J. , R. Wiese & U. Janssen
    2007 The processing of word stress: EEG studies on task related components. In Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences , 709–712. Saarbrücken.
     [Google Scholar]
  14. Peperkamp, S. & E. Dupoux
    2002 A typological study of stress “deafness”. In C. Gussenhoven & N. Warner (eds.), Laboratory Phonology, 203–240. Berlin: de Gruyter
     [Google Scholar]
  15. Peperkamp, S. , I. Vendelin & E. Dupoux
    2010 Perception of predictable stress: A cross-linguistic investigation. Journal of Phonetics38. 422–430. 10.1016/j.wocn.2010.04.001
     https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2010.04.001 [Google Scholar]
  16. Schmidt-Kassow, M. , K. Rothermich , M. Schwartze & S. Kotz
    2011 Did you get the beat? Late proficient French-German learners extract strong-weak patterns in tonal but not in linguistic sequences. Neuroimage54. 568–576. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.07.062
     https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.07.062 [Google Scholar]
  17. Turk, A.
    2010 Does prosodic constituency signal relative predictability? A smooth signal redundancy hypothesis. Laboratory Phonology1(2). 227–262. 10.1515/labphon.2010.012
     https://doi.org/10.1515/labphon.2010.012 [Google Scholar]
  18. Turnbull, R.
    2017 The role of predictability in intonational variability. Language and Speech60. 123–153. 10.1177/0023830916647079
     https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830916647079 [Google Scholar]
  19. Vogel, I. , A. Athanasopoulou & N. Pincus
    2015 Acoustic properties of prominence in Hungarian and the functional load hypothesis. In É. Dékány , K. É. Kiss & B. Surányi (eds.), Approaches to Hungarian. 14, 267–292. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 10.1075/atoh.14.11vog
     https://doi.org/10.1075/atoh.14.11vog [Google Scholar]
  20. Vogel, I. , A. Athanasopoulou & N. Pincus
    2016 Prominence, contrast and the functional load hypothesis: An acoustic investigation. In R. Goedemans , J. Heinz & H. van der Hulst (eds.), Dimensions of phonological stress, 123–167. Cambridge: University Press. 10.1017/9781316212745.006
     https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316212745.006 [Google Scholar]
  21. Vogel, I. , A. Athanasopoulou & N. Pincus
    2017 Acoustic properties of prominence and foot structure in Arabic. In H. Ouali (ed.), Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIX. Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2015, 55–88. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 10.1075/sal.5.04vog
     https://doi.org/10.1075/sal.5.04vog [Google Scholar]
  22. Watson, D. , J. Arnold & M. Tanenhaus
    2008 Tic tac toe: Effects of predictability and importance on acoustic prominence in language production. Cognition106. 1548–1557. 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.06.009
     https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2007.06.009 [Google Scholar]

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