
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
2023
- 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
2020
- 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
2019
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Repp, Sophie. 2019. The prosody of wh-exlamatives and wh-questions in German: speech act differences, information structure and sex of speaker. Language and Speech (online first). 1–56.
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