Frequency matters: pitch accents and information status

Authors:
Katrin Schweitzer;Michael Walsh;Bernd Möbius;Arndt Riester;Antje Schweitzer;Hinrich Schütze
Affiliations:
University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Venue:
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper presents the results of a series of experiments which examine the impact of two information status categories (given and new) and frequency of occurrence on pitch accent realisations. More specifically the experiments explore within-type similarity of pitch accent productions and the effect information status and frequency of occurrence have on these productions. The results indicate a significant influence of both pitch accent type and information status category on the degree of within-type variability, in line with exemplartheoretic expectations.