Colloque Universaux prosodiques : RAPPEL ET RESUMES
Michela Russo
michela.russo at UNIV-PARIS8.FR
Thu Oct 9 16:10:21 UTC 2008
Colloque International sur les Universaux prosodiques/ International
Workshop on Prosodic Universals
RAPPEL ET RESUMES
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Date: Mercredi, 15 octobre 2008 / Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Lieu du colloque/Location: Paris, France
Contact / Contact Person: Michela Russo
Courriel / Meeting email: mrusso at univ-paris8.fr
Site WEB / Web site: http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/
Domaine linguistique / Linguistics field: Phonétique et Phonology /
Phonetics and Phonology
Présentation / Meeting description: Journée UNIVERSAUX PROSODIQUES
“Confrontation sur l'état des recherches en modélisation du rythme et
typologies rythmiques”
Le colloque se tiendra à Pouchet C.N.R.S. (59 rue Pouchet 75017, Paris).
Les conférenciers invités (confirmés) sont Carlos Gussenhoven, François
Dell, Haike Jacobs, Frank Ramus, Fred Cummins, Petra Wagner et William
John Barry.
The Conference will take place at Pouchet C.N.R.S. (59 rue Pouchet 75017,
Paris). The invited speakers (confirmed) are Carlos Gussenhoven, François
Dell, Haike Jacobs, Frank Ramus, Fred Cummins, Petra Wagner and William
John Barry.
Organisateur / Organizer: Michela Russo - Université Paris 8 /UMR 7023,
C.N.R.S. “Structures formelles du Langage” (SFL)
Co-organisateurs / The organisation is in cooperation with: UMR 7023,
C.N.R.S. “Structures formelles du Langage” - Sophie Wauquier et
Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie UMR 7018, CNRS/Sorbonne-Nouvelle -
Annie Rialland
Journée organisée avec le soutien du / The workshop is supported by the
“Programme Pluri-Formation Fédération (PPF) Typologie et universaux
linguistiques” http://recherche.univ-paris3.fr/2R1-S1-PPF-typologie.php.
Directeur de l’unité / Unit Director: Stéphane Robert
La langue du colloque sera le français ou l'anglais au choix des
participants. The conference language will be French or English.
Temps de présentation / presentations: Les présentations des intervenants
seront de 45 minutes plus 10 minutes de discussion/ The presentation at
the workshop will be 45 minutes long plus 10 minutes for discussion
Lieu où se déroulera la Journée / The conference will be held at the
Pouchet C.N.R.S.: Pouchet C.N.R.S. - 59 rue Pouchet 75017, Paris
Programme officiel/ Official Program
9.30 – 9.45 Ouverture du colloque / Opening – Michela Russo Université de
Paris 8/UMR 7023 C.N.R.S.
Présidente de séance / Chair Annie Rialland - UMR 7018,
CNRS/Sorbonne-Nouvelle
9.45 – 10.30 Carlos Gussenhoven (University of Nijmegen) Asymmetries in
the intonation of the Maastricht dialect of Limburgian
10.45 – 11.15 Pause café / Coffee break
11.15 – 12.00 François Dell (C.R.L.A.O École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales, Paris) Levels of representation for text-to-tune alignment in
singing
12.15 - 13.00 Haike Jacobs (University of Nijmegen) Quantity-insensitive
stress systems and OT-CC
13.15 – 14.30 Pause déjeuner / Lunch
Présidente de séance / Chair Sophie Wauquier - Université Paris 8/UMR 7023
C.N.R.S.
14.30 – 15.15 Frank Ramus (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et
Psycholinguistique – UMR 8554/ C.N.R.S., Paris) Acoustic correlates of
linguistic rhythm: Perspectives
15.30 – 16.15 Fred Cummins (University College Dublin) Entraining
Movement: Taking Rhythm back to its roots
16.15 – 16.45 Pause café / Coffee break
16.45 – 17.30 Petra Wagner (Universität Bonn) Rhythmical variety across
various languages and speaking styles
17.45 – 18.30 William John Barry et Bistra Andreeva (Universität des
Saarlandes) Perceiving rhythm. Is it language- or listener-dependent?
Résumé / Abstracts
Carlos Gussenhoven (University of Nijmegen)
Asymmetries in the intonation of the Maastricht dialect of Limburgian
The dialect of Maastricht has a binary tone contrast (Accent 1 vs Accent
2) and four intonation contours. However, the full set of four is only
observable in a nuclear syllable with Accent 1 which is antepenultimate
or earlier in the intonational phrase. In penultimate postion, three
intonation contours occur, and in final position two. For Accent 2, the
count is three in penultimate position or earlier, and two in final
position. Only two of the three intonation contours that occur in
penultimate position for each of the two tone classes are the same, the
third being a different one for each tone class from the remaining two
intonation contours in the set of four. Styrikingly, H* L% is an
interrogative contour for Accent 1 on non-final nuclear syllables, but a
declarative contour on final nuclear syllables.
It will be argued these asymmetries are explained by the assumptions that
(a) underlyingly the language has the bitonal pitch accents L*H and H*L,
(b) it has an optional right-hand boundary tone Hi or Li, creating three
boundary conditions, (c) the lexical tone contrast is privative, Accent 2
being a H-tone and Accent 1 nothing, (d) the language enforces the OCP,
and (e) it enforces a limitation of two tones per syllable unless this
would imply the deletion of a pitch accent, a lexical tone or a boundary
tone. This grammar predicts all the gaps and all existing forms, with one
exception: a predicted falling-rising contour on a penultimate nucleus
with Accent 1 is unattested. It is argued that this form is in fact
grammatical, but is avoided in order not to jeopardize the contrast
between the two tones for the intonation contour concerned.
François Dell (C.R.L.A.O École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Levels of representation for text-to-tune alignment in singing
Singing involves a correspondence between a text and a tune. A general
framework for describing text-to-tune alignment in the world’s singing
idioms has yet to be devised. In this presentation I take some steps
towards such a framework, based on traditional French songs. I argue that
the correspondence between texts and tunes cannot be a direct one. It must
be mediated by a tree structure whose nodes do not correspond to
linguistic constituents nor to musical groupings.
Haike Jacobs (University of Nijmegen)
Quantity-insensitive stress systems and OT-CC
OT with Candidate Chains (OT-CC, McCarthy 2007) is a recent proposal to
deal with opacity in a fully parallel fashion. The basic difference with
classic OT is that evaluation does not take into account every possible
candidate, but evaluates only well-formed chains connecting a given input
to an output. In this talk, I will argue that chain theory is
independently required to correctly account for quantity-insensitive
stress systems.
The pre-OT metrical theory of Hayes (1995) encoded the distinction
between quantity-insensitive and quantity-sensitive stress directly in
the foot type: either insensitive (the syllabic trochee) or sensitive
(the moraic trochee or the iamb). Within OT, that distinction is no
longer directly expressed, but instead emerges as a result of the
interaction of metrical constraints, such as FtBin, RhType, WSP, WBP and
Parse-σ (Prince and Smolensky 1993[2004]). The architecture of OT
predicts (Kager 1999:174-175) that “constraint re-rankings produce
various degrees of quantity-sensitivity” and that
quantity-(in)sensitivity can no longer be thought of as a global property
of languages. Estonian (Alber 1997) is such a case, where in words with a
specific prosodic shape, quantity-sensitivity emerges in an otherwise
rightward quantity-insensitive stress system. In leftward
quantity-insensitive stress systems, emerging quantity-sensitivity is
also predicted to be possible, but then leads incorrectly to the
prediction that main stress switches from insensitive to sensitive
dependent on the overall prosodic makeup of the word. I will show why
classical OT solutions cannot deal adequately with the problem and that a
straightforward solution is offered by OT-CC.
Frank Ramus (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique –
UMR 8554/ C.N.R.S., Paris)
Acoustic correlates of linguistic rhythm: Perspectives
I will review past work on the acoustic correlates of speech rhythm, based
on measures of the duration of vocalic and consonantal intervals, and
discuss the difficulties faced by attempts to generalise this approach.
Finally, I will review recent developments by various groups that seem
particularly promising.
Fred Cummins (University College Dublin)
Entraining Movement: Taking Rhythm back to its roots
The empirical study of speech rhythm has long been concerned with the
analysis of the speech signal. Typically, the goal is to find some
feature of the signal that will support a taxonomy of languages. This
endeavour is very far removed from the everyday sense of the term
"rhythm". I will try to work back towards a pre-theoretical understanding
of rhythm. My starting point will be the strong claim that Rhythm is an
Affordance for the Entrainment of Movement. To support this, I will
explicate the notions of Affordance and Entrainment, and then provide
examples of how these concept might apply to rhythm in speech.
Petra Wagner (Universität Bonn)
Rhythmical variety across various languages and speaking styles
In the present study rhythm is regarded as a sequence of beats which are
perceived as groups based on their prominence structure. Duration is
identified as the main acoustic correlate of speech rhythm organization.
It signals both beginnings and ends of rhythmic groups at different
hierarchical levels of rhythmic organization. In order to illustrate
relative durations across rhythmically salient beat transitions, e.g. at
phrase boundaries or stresses, time-delay plots are introduced as a useful
visualization method. The method reveals timing preferences for
rhythmically different languages, speaking styles and is able to capture
the influence of L1 on L2 rhythm.
William John Barry et Bistra Andreeva (Universität des Saarlandes)
Perceiving rhythm. Is it language- or listener-dependent?
In a production study, Bulgarian, German and English verses with regular
poetic metrical rhythms of different types and elicited prose utterances
with varied accentual patterns are produced in textual and iterative
('dada') form and measured at syllable level according to the pairwise
variability index (PVI) principle. Systematic differences in PVI values
show that the measure IS sensitive to metrical differences. But variations
for utterances with the same metrical structure and comparable measures
for accentually different utterances show the measure to be insensitive to
the temporal distribution of prominences.
A perceptual experiment with Bulgarian, German and English subjects
confirms the hypothesis that the perceived strength of rhythmicity in a
line of verse is determined not only by its temporal structure but also by
other acoustic properties, most clearly by f0 change within the metrical
foot. The relative perceptual importance of duration and the non-temporal
parameters varies to some extent across languages, though durational
contrasts generally dominate. A linguistic foundation for the differences
is not apparent from these results.
Informations pratiques / Practical Informations:
Pouchet C.N.R.S.
59 rue Pouchet 75017, Paris
Salle des conférences: Hall du Bâtiment
Métro ligne 13. Station Guy Moquet ou Brochant. Bus: ligne 66, arrêt La
Jonquière. Bus ligne 31, arrêt Guy Môquet ou Brochant-Cardinet. RER ligne
C, station Porte de Clichy, sortie rue de la Jonquière.
La participation au colloque est libre de droits et gratuite / Free
Registration.
Pour plus de details concernant le colloque, voir / For more information
on the workshop, see:
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/
http://lpp.univ-paris3.fr/
Invited Speakers:
Carlos Gussenhoven
University of Nijmegen
http://www.ru.nl/taalwetenschap/c.gussenhoven/
François Dell
C.R.L.A.O École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
http://crlao.ehess.fr/document.php?id=98
Haike Jacobs
University of Nijmegen
http://www.ru.nl/languesromanes/contact/personnel/h_jacobs/
Frank Ramus
Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique – UMR 8554/
C.N.R.S., Paris
http://www.lscp.net/persons/ramus/fr/index.html
Fred Cummins
University College Dublin
http://pworldrworld.com/fred/
Petra Wagner
Universität Bonn
http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/~pwa/
William John Barry
Universität des Saarlandes
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~wbarry/
Fiche signaletique:
Intitulé:
Journée Universaux Prosodiques “Confrontation sur l'état des recherches en
modélisation du rythme et typologies rythmiques”
Date:
Mercredi 15 octobre 2008
Lieu:
Pouchet C.N.R.S.
59 rue Pouchet 75017, Paris
Responsable scientifique:
Michela Russo
Organisation:
Université Paris 8 /UMR 7023, C.N.R.S. “Structures formelles du Langage”
(SFL) - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie UMR 7018,
CNRS/Sorbonne-Nouvelle - Programme Pluri-Formation (PPF) Fédération
Typologie et universaux linguistiques
Contact:
mrusso at univ-paris8.fr
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