Preplanning of Intonation in Spontaneous versus Read Aloud Speech: Evidence from Danish
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Preplanning or look ahead is one of the basic principles of the current model of Danish intonation. The frequency range spanned by a prosodic phrase is constant regardless of phrase length, ceteris paribus, and the frequency step size between one stressed syllable and the next varies inversely with the number of stressed syllables in the phrase. This empirically well-founded fact is based on read aloud speech. This paper reports on an investigation of whether preplanning is also used in spontaneous speech. Analyses of map task monologues revealed that prosodic phrase contours in spontaneous spoken Danish are not preplanned.
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