Perceptual evaluation of early versus late F0 peaks in the intonation structure of Czech question-word questions

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F19%3A10403573" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/19:10403573 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2019/pdfs/2082.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2019/pdfs/2082.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2082" target="_blank" >10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2082</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Perceptual evaluation of early versus late F0 peaks in the intonation structure of Czech question-word questions
Original language description
Question-word questions in Czech lexically mark their interrogative function in the initial position: in their standard form, they begin with an interrogative lexeme. For many linguists, this is a sufficient reason for resigning on intonation marking, so they claim that the speech melody in these questions is identical to the melody of statements. A careful observation of the current Czech speech suggests otherwise. This paper presents a perceptual experiment in which Czech speakers evaluated two contrastive forms of the interrogative melody, specifically the one with a late peak modelled after statements (as suggested by some authors), and the one with an early peak modelled after our empirical data collected previously. Thirty-two listeners expressed a statistically significant preference for the early peak in a perception test. This outcome resonates with the sample of speech production of the questions. However, the late peak is also possible and acceptable: we assume that it might be a signal of contrastive emphasis or an implicational cue.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2019)
ISBN
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ISSN
1990-9772
e-ISSN
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Number of pages
5
Pages from-to
2998-3002
Publisher name
ISCA
Place of publication
Graz
Event location
Graz
Event date
Sep 15, 2019
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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