Quantal Effects in the Temporal Alignment of Prosodic Events.
Grzegorz Dogil, Antje Schweitzer · 2011
We present a method for investigating the temporal alignment of intonation events by parametrizing F0 contours. Results for three German single-speaker corpora and one American English multi-speaker corpus show that the speakers generally avoid to place peaks in syllable onsets. We suggest that this is a quantal effect [9] which results from the fact that syllable onsets are boundaries in tonal production.