A06 - (De-)linking prosodic and discourse prominence: The case of non-assertive speech acts
The project investigates the mapping between prosodic and discourse prominence (referential givenness, focus) in speech acts with speech-act-specific prosodic prominence relations that arguably are not linked to discourse prominence. We conduct experiments to explore the role of this (de-)linking for listeners' expectations regarding prosodic prominence in upcoming utterances, for the interpretation of prosodic prominence in such speech acts, and for the mental prominence of referents in the discourse representation of listeners.
Team
Dr. Heiko Seeliger
Postdoc A06
Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.04E-Mail: heiko.seeliger(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-89911
Jascha Garkazi
Student assistant A06
Office: Philosophikum, room 2.121E-Mail: jgarkaz1(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-5226
Klara Voerkel
Student assistant A06
Office: Philosophikum, room 2.121E-Mail: kvoerke1(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-5226
Publications
To appear
- Seeliger, Heiko. To appear. The prosody of Swedish non-canonical questions. In Regine Eckardt, George Walkden & Nicole Dehé (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Non-Canonical Questions.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. To appear. Givenness perception in declaratives vs. exclamatives. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden.
2023
- Repp, Sophie, Lara Muhtz & Johannes Heim. 2023. Alignment of beat gestures and prosodic prominence in German. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2023, 107–111. Dublin, Ireland.
- Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger. 2023. Contrast and givenness in biased declarative questions. In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1543–1547. Prague, Czech Republic: Guarant International.
- Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger. 2023. Reject?! On the prosody of non-acceptance. In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1355–1359. Prague, Czech Republic: Guarant International.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. 2023. Information-structural surprises? Contrast, givenness, and (the lack of) accent shift and deaccentuation in non-assertive speech acts. Journal of Laboratory Phonology 14(1), 1-46.
2022
- Seeliger, Heiko & Constantijn Kaland. 2022. Boundary tones in German wh-questions and wh-exclamatives - a cluster-based approach. In Proceedings Speech Prosody 2022, 27–31. Lisbon, Portugal. pdf
2021
- Repp, Sophie & Katharina Spalek. 2021. The role of alternatives in language. Frontiers in Communication 6:682009.
2020
- Repp, Sophie. 2020. The Prosody of Wh-exclamatives and Wh-questions in German: Speech act differences, information structure, and sex of speaker. Language and Speech 63(2). 306–361.
- Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger. 2020. Prosodic prominence in polar questions and exclamatives. Frontiers in Communication 5:53.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. 2020. Competing prominence requirements in verb-first exclamatives with contrastive and given information. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020 (online conference). Tokyo, Japan. pdf
2017
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Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. 2017. On the intonation of Swedish rejections and rejecting questions. Proceedings of Nordic Prosody XII, 135–146. Trondheim: Peter Lang. pdf