Honouring historical facts: the case of intonational downtrends

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.21437/HSCR.2021-6" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.21437/HSCR.2021-6</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/HSCR.2021-6" target="_blank" >10.21437/HSCR.2021-6</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Honouring historical facts: the case of intonational downtrends
Original language description
Various researchers of the past are honoured in citations as the very first who described or discovered certain scientifically important phenomena. However, the illusion of "our times being superior to past" causes certain myopia: we often do not go back enough to identify and appreciate the true pioneers. Generally, we tend to underestimate what our ancestors already knew and did, and we overestimate the contribution of our own era. The present paper demonstrates this predicament with the case of intonational downtrends, i.e., gradual lowering of phonologically equivalent melodic targets within an utterance. The first report of the phenomenon is often attributed to K. L. Pike, sometimes even to later intonologists. We, on the other hand, document several much older accounts of intonational downtrends, and offer some tentative explanations as to why the earlier research was ignored.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research
ISBN
978-3-95908-434-5
ISSN
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e-ISSN
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Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
63-73
Publisher name
TUDpress
Place of publication
Dresden
Event location
Praha
Event date
Aug 27, 2021
Type of event by nationality
EUR - Evropská akce
UT code for WoS article
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