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15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
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15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
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This study aims to observe which part of a sentence has more influence on the recognition of its pattern. A list consisting 27 sentences, each containing 4 intonation patterns (declarative, rising interrogative, falling interrogative and suspended), was recorded by a male native speaker of European Spanish. In this pilot study, 9 sentences were chosen from this list and were modulated by a computer software. A subject, another male native speaker of Peninsular Spanish, listened to a list of 108 sentences (=9 sentences x 4 intonation patterns x 3 different modified parts) recorded on a cassette tape. The results indicate a possibility that (i) the subject can perceive with high accuracy declarative or rising interrogative intonation, but (ii) he needs more prosodic information in the identification of falling interrogative or suspension.
Bibliographic reference. Sensui, Hirotaka (2003): "A pilot case study on sentence pattern perception of Spanish", In ICPhS-15, 1731-1734.