Kaland Constantijn, Baumann Stefan
Institut für Linguistik / Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 1252, Luxemburger Straße 299, Köln 50939, Germany.
Institut für Linguistik - Phonetik / Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 1252, Herbert-Lewin-Str. 6, Köln 50931, Germany.
J Acoust Soc Am. 2020 Apr;147(4):2974. doi: 10.1121/10.0001008.
Phrase-level prosody serves two essential functions in many languages of the world: chunking information into units (demarcating) and marking important information (highlighting). Recent work suggests that prosody has a mainly demarcating function in the Trade Malay language family. That is, the use of pitch accents in these languages is limited or absent, as the main prosodic events occur on the final two syllables in a phrase. The current study investigates the extent to which Papuan Malay phrase prosody is used for demarcating and highlighting, taking into account the potential influence of word stress. This is done by means of acoustic analyses on a corpus of spontaneous speech. Both the form (F0 movement) and the possible functions (demarcating and highlighting) of the final two syllables in Papuan Malay phrases are investigated. Although most results favor the demarcating function of Papuan Malay phrase prosody, a highlighting function cannot be ruled out. The results suggest that Papuan Malay might hold an exceptional position in the typology of prosodic prominence.
在世界上许多语言中，短语层面的韵律发挥着两个重要功能：将信息分块成单元（划分界限）以及标记重要信息（突出显示）。最近的研究表明，韵律在马来贸易语族中主要具有划分界限的功能。也就是说，这些语言中调重音的使用有限或不存在，因为主要的韵律事件发生在短语的最后两个音节上。本研究考虑到单词重音的潜在影响，调查了巴布亚马来语短语韵律在划分界限和突出显示方面的使用程度。这是通过对自发语音语料库进行声学分析来完成的。研究了巴布亚马来语短语中最后两个音节的形式（F0 变化）和可能的功能（划分界限和突出显示）。尽管大多数结果支持巴布亚马来语短语韵律的划分界限功能，但突出显示功能也不能排除。结果表明，巴布亚马来语在韵律突出的类型学中可能占据特殊地位。
