The hierarchical structure of prominence
Collaborators:
SPArK members: Sherry Chien, Jiyoung Jang, Karen Tsai, Argyro Katsika
Collaborators: Louis Goldstein, Jelena Krivokapić, Mark Tiede, Elliot Saltzman
This project tests the hypothesis that prosodic prominence reflects a hierarchical structure that emerges from the interplay between word prosody, phrase-level prosody and information structure. The ultimate goal is to offer an integrated dynamical account of prosodic structure in which prominence and phrasing rise from a single system.
To-date, the following languages have been examined:
- Greek, a lexical stress language
- American English, a lexical stress language
- Korean, a language without word prosody
- Japanese, a lexical pitch accent language
- Taiwan Mandarin, a lexical tone language (just added, stay tuned!)
Products:
- Katsika, A., Jang, J., Krivokapić, J., Goldstein, L. & Saltzman, E. 2023. A hierarchy of prominence: The production and perception of focus in American English. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.
- Jang J. & Katsika, A. 2023. Articulatory manifestation of focus-induced prominence in Korean. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.
- Katsika, A. & Tsai, K. 2021. The supralaryngeal articulation of stress and accent in Greek. Journal of Phonetics 88, 101085.
- Katsika, A., Jang, J., Krivokapić, J., Goldstein, L. & Saltzman, E. 2020. The role of focus in accentual lengthening in American English: Kinematic analyses. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020, Tokyo, Japan.
- Katsika, A. & Tsai, K. 2019. The scope of prominence-induced lengthening in Greek. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019, Melbourne, Australia, 850-854.
- Katsika, A. 2018. The kinematic profile of prominence in Greek. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018, Poznań, Poland, 764-768
We have also talked about this work here:
- Jang., J. & Katsika., A. 2023. Edgy articulation: the kinematic profile of Accentual Phrase boundaries in Seoul Korean. HISPhonCog, 2023, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.
- Katsika, A. 2021. Lexical Prosody, typological variation, and an integrated dynamical model of prosodic structure. Colloquium Series, June 2021, the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing – Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.
- Jang, J., & Katsika, A. 2020. The role of accentual phrasing and focus position in determining the scope of phrase-final lengthening in Korean. Laboratory Phonology 17, 6-8 July 2020, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- Katsika, A., & Tsai, K. 2019. The scope of the kinematic effects of prominence in Greek. The 178th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 2-6 Dec, 2019, San Diego, CA, USA, JASA: 146(4), 3084-3084.
- Katsika, A., Jang, J., Goldstein, L., Krivokapic, J., & Saltzman, E. 2019. The kinematics of prominence in American English. The 178th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 2-6 Dec, 2019, San Diego, CA, USA, JASA: 146(4), 3084-3084.
- Jang, J., & Katsika, A. 2019. Articulatory characteristics of focus in Korean. The 178th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 2-6 Dec, 2019, San Diego, CA, USA, JASA: 146(4), 3084-3084.