Search Results - "Zahner, Katharina"

The Prosody of Rhetorical and Information-Seeking Questions in German by Braun, Bettina, Dehé, Nicole, Neitsch, Jana, Wochner, Daniela, Zahner, Katharina

“…This paper reports on the prosody of rhetorical questions (RQs) and information-seeking questions (ISQs) in German for two question types—polar questions and…”
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How experience with tone in the native language affects the L2 acquisition of pitch accents by Zahner-Ritter, Katharina, Zhao, Tianyi, Einfeldt, Marieke, Braun, Bettina

“…This paper tested the ability of Mandarin learners of German, whose native language has lexical tone, to imitate pitch accent contrasts in German, an…”
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Remote Testing of the Familiar Word Effect With Non-dialectal and Dialectal German-Learning 1-2-Year-Olds by Braun, Bettina, Czeke, Nathalie, Rimpler, Jasmin, Zinn, Claus, Probst, Jonas, Goldlücke, Bastian, Kretschmer, Julia, Zahner-Ritter, Katharina

“…Variability is pervasive in spoken language, in particular if one is exposed to two varieties of the same language (e.g., the standard variety and a dialect)…”
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Three Kinds of Rising-Falling Contours in German wh-Questions: Evidence From Form and Function by Zahner-Ritter, Katharina, Einfeldt, Marieke, Wochner, Daniela, James, Angela, Dehé, Nicole, Braun, Bettina

“…The intonational realization of utterances is generally characterized by regional as well as inter- and intra-speaker variability in f0. Category boundaries…”
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Alignment of f0 peak in different pitch accent types affects perception of metrical stress by Zahner, Katharina, Kutscheid, Sophie, Braun, Bettina

“…•Perception of lexical stress is affected by pitch accent type.•F0 peaks temporarily render genuinely unstressed syllables metrically strong.•Stress…”
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The Limits of Metrical Segmentation: Intonation Modulates Infants' Extraction of Embedded Trochees by Zahner, Katharina, Schonhuber, Muna, Braun, Bettina

“…We tested German nine-month-olds' reliance on pitch and metrical stress for segmentation. In a headturn-preference paradigm, infants were familiarized with…”
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How children speak with their voice assistant Sila depends on what they think about her by Gampe, Anja, Zahner-Ritter, Katharina, Müller, Joanna Joys, Schmid, Sarah Rebecca

“…Children encounter artificial intelligence, e.g., voice assistants, at an increasingly younger age. However, we know far too little about children's…”
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How prior experience with pitch accents shapes the perception of word and sentence stress by Kutscheid, Sophie, Zahner-Ritter, Katharina, Leemann, Adrian, Braun, Bettina

“…Listeners perceive high or rising pitch as stressed - at the word and sentence level (high-pitch bias). Since stressed syllables can also be low-pitched, this…”
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The use of Active Learning systems for stimulus selection and response modelling in perception experiments by Einfeldt, Marieke, Sevastjanova, Rita, Zahner-Ritter, Katharina, Kazak, Ekaterina, Braun, Bettina

“…To study the role of perceptual cues on categorization and decision making, participants are typically tested in (perception) experiments with a fixed set of…”
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The prosodic marking of rhetorical questions in Standard Chinese by Zahner-Ritter, Katharina, Chen, Yiya, Dehé, Nicole, Braun, Bettina

“…•Prosody differentiates information-seeking and rhetorical questions in Standard Chinese.•Prosodic differences between illocution types occur in both polar and…”
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