Information structuring in English dialogue class 4 Prosody Information structuring in English dialogue class 4
Prosody in dialogues Stress, Intonation, Phrasing Physiological production Function Acoustic properties (phonetic correlates)
Intonation Physiology: Pitch height Acoustic correlate: F0 (fundamental frequency Function: grammatical, structuring, emotion
Transcription of intonation ToBI Pitch accents H*, L*, L*+H, !H* Last pitch accent=nucleus boundary tones H% L% H* !H* H* H*L%
Stress Physiology: air pressure Acoustic correlate: high intensity, high pitch, longer duration Function: accents, focus Transcription: ba‘nana
Phrasing Physiology of phrase boundary: silence Acoustic correlates: pause, pre-pausal lengthening, pre-pausal nucleus, anacrusis Function: information structuring Transcription: Anna liebt | Peter aber nicht