Different parts of the same elephant: a roadmap to disentangle and connect different perspectives on prosodic prominence

Petra Wagner (1) , Antonio Origlia (2) , Cinzia Avezani (3) , George Christodoulides (4) , Francesco Cutugno (2) , Mariapaola d'Imperio (5, 6) , David Escudero Mancebo (7) , Barbara Gili Fivela (8) , Anne Lacheret (9, 10) , Bogdan Ludusan (11, 12) , Helena Moniz (13, 14) , Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (15) , Oliver Niebuhr (16) , Lucie Rousier-Vercruyssen (10, 17) , Anne-Catherine Simon (18, 4) , Juraj Šimko (19) , Fabio Tesser (3) , Martti Vainio (19)

1 Universität Bielefeld = Bielefeld University
2 University of Naples Federico II = Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II
3 ST Lab - Semantic Technology Laboratory (CNR / ISTC)
4 UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain
5 LPL - Laboratoire Parole et Langage
6 AMU - Aix Marseille Université
7 UVa - Universidad de Valladolid [Valladolid]
8 University of Salento [Lecce]
9 UPN - Université Paris Nanterre
10 MoDyCo - Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus
11 LSCP - Laboratoire de sciences cognitives et psycholinguistique
12 ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris
13 INESC - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores
14 University of Lisboa
15 Trinity College Dublin
16 SDU - University of Southern Denmark
17 UNINE - Université de Neuchâtel = University of Neuchatel
18 Centre de recherche Valibel
19 Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki

Prosodic prominence is an umbrella term encompassing various related but conceptually and functionally different phenomena such as phonological stress, paralinguistic emphasis, lexical, syntactic, semantic or pragmatic salience, to mention a few. Due to the high interest prominence has received from various disciplines, it has been studied from multiple perspectives (functional, physical, cogni-tive). It also has been operationalised and annotated across different descriptive levels (syllable, word), based on different scales (categorical, multi-level, continuous), and measured across a large variety of signal domains (acoustic, articulatory, gestural). The present paper offers an overview of the various perspectives involved and defines a preliminary roadmap for a better and more unified understanding of this multi-faceted phenomenon.

Mots clés: prominence; annotation; methodology; definition; universals

Domaines: Linguistique

Petra Wagner, Antonio Origlia, Cinzia Avezani, George Christodoulides, Francesco Cutugno, et al.. Different parts of the same elephant: a roadmap to disentangle and connect different perspectives on prosodic prominence. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2015, Glasgow, United Kingdom. ⟨halshs-01687856⟩