A06 - (De-)linking prosodic and discourse prominence: The case of non-assertive speech acts
The current project investigates prosodic prominence marking that has been associated with certain non-assertive speech acts, e.g. expressive speech acts like exclamations, echo questions, rejecting questions, in relation to prosodic prominence marking that is the result of the information structure of an utterance (givenness-newness, contrast). It thus investigates the interaction of two prominence-lending semantic-pragmatic properties that can impose conflicting as well as additive requirements on prominence marking in the prosodic domain. The project explores how these requirements are realized by conducting prosodic production experiments with speakers of German.
Team

Prof. Dr. Sophie Repp
Principal Investigator A06
Office: Philosophikum, room 2.119 E-mail: sophie.repp(at)uni-koeln.de Phone: (+49) 221 470-5235 Web: Prof. Dr. Sophie Repp

Dr. Heiko Seeliger
Postdoc A06
Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.04 E-mail: heiko.seeliger(at)uni-koeln.de Phone: (+49) 221 470-89911 Web: Heiko Seeliger

Lukas Kurzeja
Student assistant A06
Office: Philosophikum, room 2.121 E-mail: lkurzeja(at)smail.uni-koeln.de Phone: (+49) 221 470-5226

Karoline Marliani
Student assistant A06
Office: Philosophikum, room 2.121 E-Mail: kmarlia1(at)uni-koeln.de Phone: (+49) 221 470-5226

Marlon Siewert
Student assistant A06
Office: Philosophikum, room 2.121 E-mail: msiewer1(at)smail.uni-koeln.de Phone: (+49) 221 470-5226
Publications
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