Intonation in Spanish declaratives : differences between lab speech and spontaneous speech

By T. L. Face. 2003

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The present study compares the intonation of Spanish declarative utterances in lab speech and spontaneous speech. Most studies of Spanish intonation have used lab speech, collected in an experimental setting and often scripted. This allows the researcher to control many factors, but the results cannot be assumed to be representative of spontaneous speech. The present study takes the most characteristic traits of the intonation of declarative sentences in Spanish lab speech and examines whether the same traits exist in spontaneous speech. It is shown that there are notable differences between the intonation of Spanish declaratives in lab speech and spontaneous speech. While some of the differences are minor, others are quite significant. Differences of one degree or another exist in the areas of the presence of F0 rises through stressed syllables, F0 peak alignment, downstepping, final lowering and deaccenting.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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LEARNING SECOND LANGUAGE SUPRASEGMENTALS: Effect of L2 Experience on Prosody and Fluency Characteristics of L2 Speech (2006, background): “…a simple story @Moyer, 1999# ! are indeed more ecologically valid because they provide speech samples that are representative of natural speech ~see Face, 2003, for a comparison of suprasegmentals in lab vs+ spontaneous speech!, the delayed sentence-repetition task was deemed appropriate for the…”
Intonational pitch accent distribution in Egyptian Arabic. (2006, background): “This contrasts with a distinction observed in Spanish between the distribution of pitch accents in speech collected under ‘laboratory’ conditions (‘lab speech’) and spontaneous speech (Face 2003).”