Experimental Approaches to the Production and Perception of Prosody

All of the papers follow a laboratory-based approach to phonology and a variety of experimental methods are employed to elicit controlled production data as well as to investigate perception, including tasks involving picture-matching and other types of interactive games, discourse completion, ABX discrimination, sequence recall and context matching acceptability judgements. By showing that the pitch movement leading to the stared tone is phonologically relevant, these results also support the models that incorporate both leading and trailing tones (Beckman, Hirschberg, & Shattuck-Hufnagel, 2005) and not just trailing - that is, left-headed - tones (Gussenhoven, 2005). Besides its contribution to the theoretical models of intonation, and the specific analysis of German accents, this paper also contributes to the establishment of suitable methods for determining the tonal phonological categories.