The typology of prosodic boundaries
Collaborators:
SPArK members: Jiyoung Jang, Karen Tsai, Argyro Katsika
Collaborators: Louis Goldstein, Jelena Krivokapić, Christine Mooshammer, Mark Tiede
This project examines the tonal and kinematic profile of prosodic boundaries across languages representing distinct types of the prosodic typology. The overarching goal is to offer a dynamical model of prosodic phrasing that integrates lexical and phrasal properties and addresses speech planning considerations.
To-date, the following languages have been examined:
- Greek, a head-prominence language with lexical stress
- Korean, an edge-prominence language lacking word prosody
- Japanese, a head/edge-prominence language with lexical pitch accent
Products:
- Jang J. & Katsika, A. Submitted. Focus on phrase boundaries lacking word prosody: an articulatory investigation of Seoul Korean.
- Chien, S., Tsai, K., Katsika, A. 2023. The domain of boundary-related lengthening in Tokyo Japanese, a mora-timed language. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.
- Jang, J. & Katsika A. 2022. The coordination of boundary tones with constriction gestures in Seoul Korean, an edge-prominence language. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Jang, J. & Katsika, A. 2020. The amount and scope of phrase-final lengthening in Korean. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020, Tokyo, Japan.
- Tsai, K. & Katsika, A. 2020. Pitch accent and phrase boundaries: Kinematic evidence from Japanese. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020, Tokyo, Japan.
- Katsika, A. 2016. The role of prominence in determining the scope of boundary lengthening in Greek. Journal of Phonetics 55, 149-181
- Katsika A., Krivokapić J., Mooshammer C., Tiede M. & Goldstein, L. 2014. The coordination of boundary tones and their interaction with prominence. Journal of Phonetics 44, 62-82
In addition to the above, we have presented aspects of this work at the following venues:
- Jang, J. & Katsika, A. 2022. The role of focus position in boundary tone coordination in Korean, an edge-prominence language. The 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, 6-9 January 2022, Washington, DC, USA.
- Jang, J., Tsai, K., & Katsika, A.2021. A cross-linguistic examination of the role of prominence in the coordination of boundary tones.The 29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK29), 9-11 October 2021.
- 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. 2021. Prosodic boundaries in edge-prominence languages: kinematic evidence from Korean. The 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, 7-10 January 2021, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Tsai, K., Jang, J., & Katsika, A. 2020. The role of prominence in phrase-final lengthening: a cross-linguistic comparison. The 12th international Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), 14-18 December 2020, Providence, RI, USA.
- Tsai, K., & Katsika, A. 2020. Phrase-final lengthening and its interaction with lexical pitch accent in Japanese. Laboratory Phonology 17, 6-8 July 2020, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- 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.
- Tsai, K., & Katsika, A. 2019. The interaction between lexical prominence and pre-boundary lengthening in Japanese. The 178th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 2-6 Dec, 2019, San Diego, CA, USA, JASA: 146(4), 3013-3013.
- Katsika, A. & Tsai, K. 2019. The articulatory effects of Greek prominence and their scope. The 14th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, September 5-8, 2019, Patras, Greece.