Samlowski, Barbara: The syllable as a processing unit in speech production: evidence from frequency effects on coarticulation. 2016
Inhalt
- Acknowledgements
- Zusammenfassung
- 1 Introduction and Outline
- 2 The Role of the Syllable in Speech Production
- 2.1 Syllables as Possible Production Units
- 2.2 The Idea of a Mental Syllabary
- 2.3 Timing Issues
- 2.4 Influences of Syllable Frequency on Pronunciation
- 3 Extracting Syllable Frequencies from Orthographic Texts
- 3.1 Background
- 3.2 Material
- 3.3 Corpus Processing and Error Analysis
- 3.3.1 Original Corpus Text
- 3.3.2 Removal of Annotations
- 3.3.3 Adjustment of Encoding Formats
- 3.3.4 Text Normalization
- 3.3.5 Phonetic Transcription
- 3.3.6 Segmentation into Syllables
- 3.4 Discussion
- 4 Comparing Syllable Frequencies in Different Corpora
- 4.1 Background
- 4.2 Methods
- 4.3 Results
- 4.3.1 General Statistics and Frequency Distributions
- 4.3.2 Relative Frequencies versus Frequency Ranks
- 4.3.3 Overall Corpus Similarity and Qualitative Analysis
- 4.3.4 Syllable Type Frequencies
- 4.3.5 Dispersion Within and Across Databases
- 4.4 Discussion
- 5 Experiment 1: Effects of Word Stress, Sentence Stress, and Syntactic Boundaries
- 6 Experiment 2: Effects of Lexical Class and Lemma Frequency
- 7 Experiment 3: Effects of Syllable Frequency
- 7.1 Background
- 7.2 Methods
- 7.3 Results
- 7.3.1 Speech Errors
- 7.3.2 Duration
- 7.3.3 Prominence
- 7.3.4 Spectral Similarity
- 7.3.5 Comparison with Original Annotations
- 7.4 Discussion
- 8 Summary and General Discussion
- 9 Conclusions and Future Work
- 10 References
- 11 Appendices
- 11.1 Appendix A: Stimuli for Experiment 1
- 11.2 Appendix B: Stimuli for Experiment 2
- 11.3 Appendix C: Stimuli for Experiment 3
- 11.4 Appendix D: Distractor Sentences
- 11.5 Appendix E: Example Illustrations (Experiment 1 – "unterstellen")
- 11.6 Appendix F: Prominence Tables
- 11.7 Appendix G: Variability across Contexts (Experiment 3)