ESCA Workshop on Prosody Lund, Sweden September 27-29, 1993

Perception of Low-Anchoring Versus High-Anchoring of Dutch Accent-Lending Pitch Rises

Johanneke Caspers, Vincent J. van Heuven

Holland Institute of Linguistics/Phonetics Laboratory, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

A perception experiment was conducted to evaluate the hypothesis, derived from earlier production data, that the onset of the Dutch accent-lending pitch rise ('l') is attached to the syllable onset. The accent-lending rise, either anchored with its onset ('low-anchor') to the syllable onset, or with its peak ('high-anchor') at 50 ms after the vowel onset, was presented to listeners in a discrimination and a preference test. Results reveal that, counter to what the relevant literature suggests, there is a preference for the low-anchor, increasing with the magnitude of the shift between the two types of rise.

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Bibliographic reference.  Caspers, Johanneke / Heuven, Vincent J. van (1993): "Perception of low-anchoring versus high-anchoring of dutch accent-lending pitch rises", In Prosody-1993, 188-191.