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The start and end of it:Prosodic marking of speech report boundaries in Dolakha Newar
Carol Genetti & Daniel W. Hieber
UC Santa Barbara
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Typical Reported Speech Construction
(1)
āle gibi=lān hār-mun chin haŋ-an hat-aithen where=ABL bring-2sPR 2sERG say-PART say-3sPR
‘Then (she) said: “From where did you bring (this)?”’
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(2) Second-Person Attraction (Evans 2013:96)
hāti hat-ai haŋ-an hat-cuwhat say-3sPST COMP say-3sPST
‘He said: “What did he say?”
thae=ri chẽ=ku thi-mā mica dam hat-ai2Hon.GEN=IND house=LOC one-CL daughter be say-3sPR
‘He said: “In your house there is a daughter.”
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Alternative Structure
(3) Speech report follows quotative verb
āmun hat-ai ki janta chin da-syat3sERG say-3sPT COMP 1sDAT 2sERG PROH-kill
‘He said: “Don’t kill me!”’
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Help define the linguistic area (Kuiper 1974; Klaiman1977; Masica 1976, 1991 )
Rhetorical speech style(Noonan 2006)
Grammaticalization of ‘say’ verbs (Saxena 1988;
Bashir 1996)
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PROSODIC MARKING OF DIRECT SPEECH REPORTS
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Polyphony: Layering of Voices
• Voice of the Speaker
• Voice of the Narrator
• Voice of the Character
• Voice of the Character as Narrator
• Voice of the Character as Character
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“The question which the “voicing” of figures raises for a prosodist is whether and to what extent the speaker’s phonatory voice is instrumental in the process.”
-- Couper-Kuhlen (1998:3)
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Prosodic features cited as marking speech report boundaries
• Noticeable shift of pitch register
• Greater reset in pitch range
• Changes in volume
• Shifts to perceptually isochronous timing
• Changes in register or voice quality
• Use of prosodic patterns typical of conversational speech
• Devoicing
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“As with syntactic boundaries, the relationship between prosodic marking and discourse structure is not simple, and exhibits substantial variability. Speakers do not consistently produce prosodic cues that identify the beginning or end of a discourse unit…”
-- Cole 2014:14
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“[Direct speech reports] may be set off from the surrounding quotative frame by intonation-unit boundaries, variations in pitch or loudness, and/or the production of contours typical of conversational speech. … On the other hand, they may exhibit none of these prosodic characteristics and be prosodically integrated with respect to the quotative frame.”
-- Genetti 2011:55
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Cline of Prosodic Integration
ProsodicallyIntegrated
ProsodicallyIndependent
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Malibert and Verhove (in press)
Variation in:
– Frequency of direct speech reports
– Degree and frequency of integration
– Whether the left or right boundary tends to be more significantly marked
– Degree of correlation with grammatical markers, especially complementizers
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“In SOV languages where the quotative verb follows the speech reports, their onset is systematically set off from the previous intonation unit, a clear prosodic cue, marking the beginning of the speech report. In SVO languages it is the end of the speech report which is set off from the next IU.”
-- Malibert and Vanhove (in press:61)
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Questions for Present Study
• Can we provide a detailed quantitative analysis of the prosodic features that mark speech-report boundaries in Dolakha Newar?
• Are there differences between how the beginnings of speech reports are marked as opposed to the ends?
• What are the implications for the Cline of Prosodic Integration?
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DOLAKHA NEWAR
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PROSODY IN DOLAKHA NEWAR
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Intonation Unit (IU)
• A cohesive stretch of speech uttered under a coherent intonation contour
• IU boundaries marked by some of the following:– pitch reset
– pause
– “lag-rush”: final lengthening followed by acceleration of new IU
– occasionally changes in amplitude, voice quality
– Final contour – distinctive pitch movement at the end of an IU
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tyāgi barta=ku ũ-i doŋ-an-^li //denial fasting=LOC go-INF finish-PART-
after
ām ^māji=e mica makche=ri /DEM boatman=GEN daughter Makche=IND
chẽ ^pul-en yer-a \\house return-PART come-3sPST‘(He) having gone to a life of denial and fasting,
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Dolakha Newar: 6 Final Contours(boundary tones)
Falls Rises
High fall Marked Rise
Mid fall Rise
Level
Rise-Fall
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Phrasal Accent
Increased prosodic prominence assigned to (typically) one syllable of an IU
Normal Emphatic
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Overall shape of an intonation contour results from:
1. Type and position of phrasal accent
2. Type of final contour
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“Normal” phrasal accent and rising contour
F0 red
Amplitude purple
(3) āmta ^pyāṭawāku-ju / ‘She was always hungry’
aamta pyaaTawaak-uju /
3sDAT hunger-3sPH
Time (s)
0 1.047
Time (s)
0 1.060270
350
Time (s)
0 1.0602750
100
193 hertz
225 hertz
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“Emphatic” phrasal accent and marked fall contour
inaau kha~=ri chin gun= ta=ng da-hat
this.type talk=IND 2sERG who DAT=EXT PROH-say
Time (s)
0 1.47
Time (s)
41.1964 43.06390
350
Time (s)
41.1964 43.063950
100
(4) ināgu khā̃=̃ri chin gunta=ŋ da-hat \\‘Don’t tell this to anyone’
F0 = red
Amplitude = purple
163 hertz
231 hertz
F0 red
Amplitude purple
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Data for current study
• Four folktale narratives
– Mahabharata excerpt Sanu Laxmi Joshi
– Siru Kalpana Shrestha
– Orphan Bisnu Laxmi Shrestha
– 3 Kids Kalam Maske
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Data for current study
• Looked at :
– All speech reports (n = 167)
– All IUs in first 100 seconds of each text (n = 235)
• Total: 894 intonation units
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Durations of Speech Reports
Duration of Text (seconds)
Duration of SRs (seconds)
% of Text that is Quoted Speech
3 Kids 579.10 158.62 27.39 %
Maha. 558.19 148.91 26.68 %
Orphan 458.18 148.85 32.49 %
Siru 543.35 171.33 31.53 %
Total 2,138.82 627.71 29.35 %
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EXPLORING STARTS AND ENDS OF SPEECH REPORTS
Question 1:
Do IU boundaries co-occur with speech-report boundaries?
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(1)
āle gibi=lān hār-mun chin haŋ-an hat-aithen where=ABL bring-2sPR 2sERG say-PART say-3sPR
‘Then (she) said: “From where did you bring (this)?”’
IU boundary here? IU boundary here?
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Finding 1
• Speakers are more likely to place IU boundaries at the starts of speech reports than at the ends.
• Statistically highly significant
χ2=31.528, df=1, p<0.001
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EXPLORING STARTS AND ENDS OF SPEECH REPORTS
Question 2:
Are there any patterns with respect to pauses and speech-report boundaries?
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tyāgi barta=ku ũ-i doŋ-an-^li //denial fasting=LOC go-INF finish-PART-
after
ām ^māji=e mica makche=ri /DEM boatman=GEN daughter Makche=IND
chẽ ^pul-en yer-a \\house return-PART come-3sPST‘(He) having gone to a life of denial and fasting,
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IUs and pausesexternal to speech reports
392 total external IU boundaries:
•286 (73%) have no pause
•106 (27%) are followed by a pause of 100 ms. or greater
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(1)
āle gibi=lān hār-mun chin haŋ-an hat-aithen where=ABL bring-2sPR 2sERG say-PART say-3sPR
‘Then (she) said: “From where did you bring (this)?”’
When there is an IU boundary,
is there a pause?
When there is an IU boundary,
is there a pause?
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Compare with IUs at starts and ends of speech reports
IU boundary is: External to SR Start of SR End of SR
Zero Pause 286 (73%) 59 (43%) 46 (52%)
Pause 106 (27%) 78 (57%) 43 (48%)
TOTAL 485 137 89
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Statistical Analysis
Two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for independence:
–Non-SR boundaries vs. start boundaries:
• D=0.2989, p<0.001 – highly significant
–Non-SR boundaries vs. end boundaries:
• D=0.2484, p<0.001 – highly significant
–No statistical significance between the starts and the ends on this
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Finding 2
• Speakers are more likely to pause at IU boundaries that are at boundaries of speech reports than at other IU boundaries.
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EXPLORING STARTS AND ENDS OF SPEECH REPORTS
Question 3:
Are there differences in how pitch patterns at the starts and ends of speech reports?
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Methodology
• Took the average pitch of the three syllables preceding the SR boundary
• Compared it to the average pitch of the three syllables following the SR boundary
• Represented the difference in terms of a percent change from the syllables preceding the boundary
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Statistical Analysis
• With IU Boundaries: Highly significant
– Two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for independence: D=0.5102, p<0.001.
• Without IU Boundaries: Highly significant
– Two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for independence: D=0.6466, p<0.001.
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Finding 3
• Speakers are more likely to increase pitch at starts of speech reports and to decrease pitch at ends of speech reports.
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EXPLORING STARTS AND ENDS OF SPEECH REPORTS
Question 4:
Are there differences in how intensity patterns at the starts and ends of speech reports?
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Methodology
• Took the average intensity of the three syllables preceding the SR boundary
• Compared it to the average intensity of the three syllables following the SR boundary
• Represented the difference in terms of a percent change from the syllables preceding the boundary
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Statistical Analysis
• With IU Boundaries: Highly significant
– Two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for independence: D=0.4315, p<0.001.
• Without IU boundaries: Significant
– Two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for independence: D=0.3335, p=0.0162
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Finding 4
• Speakers are more likely to increase loudness at the starts of speech reports and to decrease loudness at ends of speech reports.
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CONCLUSIONS
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For starts and ends
• Speakers are more likely to pause at an IU boundary that is at the beginning or end of a speech report than at an IU boundary elsewhere.
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At STARTS of speech reports we are more likely to find …
• IU boundaries
• Increased pitch
• Increased intensity
• 160 of 167 speech reports had at least one of these features and/or a pause
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At ENDS of speech reports we are more likely to find …
• No IU boundary
• Lowered pitch
• Lowered intensity
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Confirms Malibert and Vanhove’sprediction
• SOV language
• Starts are systematically set off from the previous intonation unit with a clear prosodic cue, marking the beginning of the speech report
• Ends can be set off, but it is less likely
• Starts show more prosodic separation and ends show more prosodic integration
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Evidence of Variability across Speakers
• “Prosodic style”
• More likely idiolectal than sociolinguistic
• Other genres?
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Cline of Prosodic Integration?
• Clear evidence of a scale from prosodically integrated to prosodically separated
• Starts differ from ends: put these on a cline, rather than whole speech reports
• The distribution of feature values across the cline is not even
• Prosodic features cluster at particular values and in particular patterns
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