Production and perception experiments with native speakers of Russian, a free word order language, show that prosody and change in word order are used to mark discourse-prominent constituents. Concurrent application of these cues to prominence is possible, as evident from distinctively higher f0 and intensity maxima, and duration values associated with ex- situ words, as well as their higher visibility in discourse. Distinctive acoustic-prosodic realization of ex-situ words may cue their relatively high informational load and discourse prominence, as well as (redundantly) signal that the word is left- or right-dislocated.
Cite as: Luchkina, T., Cole, J. (2014) Structural and Prosodic Correlates of Prominence in Free Word Order Language Discourse. Proc. Speech Prosody 2014, 1119-1123, doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2014-214
@inproceedings{luchkina14_speechprosody,
author={Tatiana Luchkina and Jennifer Cole},
title={{Structural and Prosodic Correlates of Prominence in Free Word Order Language Discourse}},
year=2014,
booktitle={Proc. Speech Prosody 2014},
pages={1119--1123},
doi={10.21437/SpeechProsody.2014-214}
}