Annual Report of the Institute of Phonetics University of Copenhagen

https://tidsskrift.dk/ARIPUC/issue/feed Annual Report of the Institute of Phonetics University of Copenhagen 2022-02-28T16:16:09+01:00 Holger Juul juul@hum.ku.dk Open Journal Systems The series ARIPUC (Annual Report of the Institute of Phonetics, University of Copenhagen) ISSN 0589-6681 comprises 23 volumes published between 1967 and 1989. The electronic versions E-ISSN 2794-3224 are scans of printed volumes obtained mainly from the university library. They sometimes feature handwritten student notes etc. The articles are reissued online (February 2022) with explicit or assumed consent from the authors. Unfortunately, it has not been possible to get in touch with all authors. Copyright holders wishing to object to the online reissue of a paper should write to the contact person named below. https://tidsskrift.dk/ARIPUC/article/view/131899 Cover and title page 2022-02-28T15:45:53+01:00 ARIPUC juul@hum.ku.dk

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1989-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright (c) 1989 Editor https://tidsskrift.dk/ARIPUC/article/view/131902 Stress group patterns, sentence accents and sentence intonation in southern Jutland (Sønderborg and Tønder) - with a view to German 2022-02-28T15:53:07+01:00 Nina Grønnum Thorsen juul@hum.ku.dk

This paper investigates prosodic stress group patterns, the presence and manifestation of default and focal sentence accents and the nature of sentence intonation signalling in Standard Danish spoken on a substratum of South Jutland dialects, viz. Sønderborg and Tønder, and in two varieties of German, Standard North German and Flensburg. The following facts appear: sentence intonation (understood to encompass both utterance function and utterance juncture) is signalled globally in Tønder, locally in Sønderborg, and with a mixture of global and local signalling in German. Default accents are nonexistent in the two Danish varieties, optional in German. Focus is signalled, optionally (and never in final position), by stress reduction of the surroundings in the Danish regions, but is compulsory and takes the shape of a proper sentence accent, though modest, in German. Sønderborg and German have unambiguous final lengthening, whereas both lengthening and shortening finally occurs in Tønder. Prosodic stress group patterns suffer a clean truncation when their duration is shortened in the Danish regions, but a mixture of compression and truncation in German. Finally, Tønder has stød, Sønderborg and (of course) German do not.

1989-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright (c) 1989 Author https://tidsskrift.dk/ARIPUC/article/view/131903 What language do "the spirits of the yellow leaves" speak?: A case of conflicting lexical and phonological evidence 2022-02-28T16:01:35+01:00 Jørgen Rischel juul@hum.ku.dk

This paper (which in part summarizes two papers to appear in Acta Orientalia but which presents separate information as well) deals with some issues raised by descriptive and comparative linguistic work in northern Thailand. The putative Austroasiatic languages "Yumbri" and "Mrabri" (more correctly: Mlabri) have been assigned to "Khmuic" within the Mon-Khmer languages, but the relationship between these two idioms has been a controversial issue. On the basis of recent fieldwork all existing data on "Yumbri" and "Mrabri" can be shown to reflect one and the same language Mlabri in spite of wide discrepancies in notation; these do not even reveal major phonological dialect differences whereas there are conspicuously different lexical usages. This has not so far been properly understood because of difficulties in the interpretation of earlier data which were all gathered by amateurs. - As for the tentative genetic classification of Mlabri as Khmuic, the lexical evidence used to substantiate this claim now turns out to be controversial: a large number of the Khmuic words in Mlabri are rather direct reflexes of en early stage of Tin, a language that has been assigned to the Khmuic branch of Mon-Khmer. Thus, it is either the case that Mlabri and Tin are sister-languages (forming a "Tinic" branch of Khmuic) or that Mlabri has early borrowings from Tin.

1989-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright (c) 1989 Author https://tidsskrift.dk/ARIPUC/article/view/131904 Syntax, morphology, and phonology in text-to-speech systems 2022-02-28T16:10:57+01:00 Peter Molbæk Hansen juul@hum.ku.dk

The paper is concerned with the integration of linguistic information in text-to-speech systems. Research in synthesis proper is at a stage where the need for systematic integration of comprehensive linguistic information in such systems is making itself felt more than ever. A surface structure parsing system is presented whose main virtue is that it permits linguists to express syntactic as well as lexical and morphological regularities and irregularities of a language in a simple and easy-to-learn formalism. Most aspects of the system are seen in the light of Danish and - sporadically - English and Finnish surface structure.

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