Ritter Simon, Grice Martine
Lang Speech. 2015 Mar;58(Pt 1):114-28. doi: 10.1177/0023830914565688.
A perception experiment with native German listeners provided evidence for the relevance of the tonal onglide in nuclear accents--the pitch movement leading towards the target on the accented syllable. Listeners were able to distinguish between two pragmatic meanings of a short phrase (given/non-contrastive and new/contrastive) using the tonal onglide as the sole acoustic cue. On the basis of these findings, we argue that the onglide merits a phonological status in an intonation model of German and should not be regarded as merely phonetic detail.
一项针对以德语为母语的听众的感知实验为核重音中音调滑音的相关性提供了证据——音调滑音是指在重读音节上朝着目标音高移动的音高变化。听众能够仅使用音调滑音作为唯一的声学线索，区分一个简短短语的两种语用意义（既定/非对比性和新信息/对比性）。基于这些发现，我们认为滑音在德语语调模型中值得拥有音系地位，而不应仅仅被视为语音细节。
