I'm looking for articles about the effects of tonal crowding in intonational languages (tone truncation, tonal compression, schwa epenthesis...). If you've published anything about this subject, I'll be grateful if you let me know.
Arvaniti, Ladd & Mennen 2000; Arvaniti & Ladd 2009. Both downloadable from RG (probably) and certainly from my website: amaliaarvaniti.info
Paolo, I have tonal crowding in Pescara, two pitch accents having to be aligned with the same (nuclear) syllable, the outcome being anticipation of the first to the pretonic syllable.
I remember reading about a comparative (I think English/Dutch or English/German) work on final crowding, the outcome being truncation in one language, compression in another...as soon as I find the reference I'll tell you
Hi Paolo,
Here are a few papers that may be of interest.
Prieto, P. (2005). Stability effects on tonal clash contexts in Catalan. Journal of Phonetics 33, 215-242.
Arvaniti, A., Mennen, I., & Ladd, D.R. (2006). Phonetic effects of focus and "tonal crowding" in intonation: Evidence from Greek polar questions. Speech Communication 48, 667-696.
Grabe, E. (1998). Pitch accent realisation in English and German. Journal of Phonetics 26, 129-143.
That was it, thank you Olga, Grabe (1998), also quoted in Mennen (2004):
if I got it right, for oxitony phrase-endings, German compresses L*H and truncates H*L whereas English compresses both
My pleasure. I thought that was the paper you were thinking of, Marco.
Dear all, thanks for your help. Your suggestions are being very useful indeed.
sorry. haven't done any. thanks to all the above answers. even i would look into these .
Please see our upcoming paper for a different approach to the tone crowding issue: Xu, Y., Lee, A., Prom-on, S. & Liu, F. (in press). Explaining the PENTA model: A reply to Arvaniti and Ladd (2009). Phonology. http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uclyyix/yispapers/Xu_etAl_Phonology2015_author.pdf
http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uclyyix/yispapers/Xu_etAl_Phonology2015_author.pdf
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