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Braun.pdf (642.3Kb)Braun, Bettina; Lemhöfer, Kristin; Mani, Nivedita (2011), Preprint[more][less]
Zusammenfassung: This paper investigated how foreign-accented stress cues affect online speech comprehension in British English. While unstressed English vowels are usually reduced to /əә/, Dutch speakers of English only slightly centralize them. Speakers of both languages differentiate stress by suprasegmentals (duration, intensity). In a cross-modal priming experiment, English listeners heard sentences ending in monosyllabic prime fragments - produced by either an English or a Dutch speaker of English - and performed lexical decisions on visual targets. Primes were either stress-matching ('ab' excised from absurd), stress-mismatching ('ab' from absence), or unrelated ('pro' from proper) with respect to the target (e.g., ABSURD). Results showed a priming effect for stress-matching primes only when produced by the English speaker, suggesting that vowel quality is a more important cue to word stress than suprasegmental information. Furthermore, for visual targets with secondary stress that do not require vowel reduction (e.g., CAMPAIGN), resembling the Dutch way to realize stress, there was a priming effect for both speakers. Hence, Dutch-accented English is not harder to understand in general, but it is in instances where the language-specific implementation of lexical stress differs across languages. Dateien zu dieser Publikation: 1
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sub8proceedings.pdf (5.540Mb)Meier, Cecile; Weisgerber, Matthias (2004), Konferenzveröffentlichung
Arbeitspapiere / Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft -Nr. 117 [more][less]Zusammenfassung: The volume is a collection of papers given at the conference sub8 -- Sinn und Bedeutung , the eighth annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Semantik, held at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt (Germany) in September 2003. During this conference, experts presented and discussed various aspects of semantics. The very different topics included in this book provide insight into fields of ongoing Semantics research. Dateien zu dieser Publikation: 1
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inlist22.pdf (75.94Kb)Günthner, Susanne (2000), Working Paper / Technical Report
InLiSt - Interaction and Linguistic Structures -Nr. 22 [more][less]Zusammenfassung: In this paper I shall analyze grammatical and rhetoric-stylistic devices speakers use in order to construct scenic moments and to build up narrative tension in everyday narratives, especially in complaint stories. Complaint stories belong to the 'family' of 'reconstructive communicative genres' (Bergmann/Luckmann 1995) which recontextualize past experience in the social-communicative present time. They are 'big packages', according to Sacks (1968-72/92), i.e. relatively long sequences of talk. The 'participation framework' of complaint stories includes: a) The narrator and complainant, who appears as protagonist in the narrative. This protagonist is the victim of some wrongdoing in the storyworld. b) The recipients of the complaint story, who are not part of the storyworld and thus were not witnesses of the events being reconstructed. c) The antagonist and wrongdoer who harmed, unjustly attacked, or wronged the protagonist and who is not present in the narrating situation. The antagonist's morally inappropriate behavior towards the protagonist forms the focus of the narrative (Günthner 1997; 2000a). I will argue that narrators of complaint stories not only reconstruct the wrongdoings of others, but also stage these past events as 'little shows' (Goffman 1986 [1974]: 506); i.e. they present them as something for the recipients 'to re-experience, to dwell on, to savor' (Goffman 1986 [1974]: 506). In the following analysis I will present the grammatical and rhetoric-stylistic devices narrators use to stage past events in complaint stories. This analysis is based on 36 complaint stories, which were narrated in informal German conversation (conversations over dinner, during coffee-breaks and over the telephone) among friends and family members. Dateien zu dieser Publikation: 1
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