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Supplementary Material for: The Prosody of the Czech Discourse Marker ‘Jasně': An Analysis of Forms and Functions
<p>Words like yeah, okay and (al)right are fairly unspecific in their
lexical semantics, and not least for this reason there is a general
tendency for them to occur with highly varied and expressive prosodic
patterns across languages. Here we examine in depth the prosodic forms
that express eight pragmatic functions of the Czech discourse marker
jasnÄ›, including resignation, reassurance, surprise, indifference or
impatience. Using a collection of 172 tokens from a corpus of scripted
dialogues by 30 native speakers, we performed acoustic analyses, applied
classification algorithms and solicited judgments from native listeners
in a perceptual experiment. There appeared to be multi-parametric
differences between jasnÄ› realizations in terms of their F0, timing and
intensity patterns, which gave rise to generally consistent
form-function mappings. For example, resignation seems to be realized
with a falling intonation contour, relatively slow tempo, long
wordinitial consonant and a short word-final vowel. Although the most
significant prosodic parameters used for clustering analysis involved
segment durations, all pragmatic functions were expressed by patterns of
multiple features.</p
Supplementary Material for: The Prosody of the Czech Discourse Marker ‘Jasně': An Analysis of Forms and Functions
<p>Words like yeah, okay and (al)right are fairly unspecific in their
lexical semantics, and not least for this reason there is a general
tendency for them to occur with highly varied and expressive prosodic
patterns across languages. Here we examine in depth the prosodic forms
that express eight pragmatic functions of the Czech discourse marker
jasnÄ›, including resignation, reassurance, surprise, indifference or
impatience. Using a collection of 172 tokens from a corpus of scripted
dialogues by 30 native speakers, we performed acoustic analyses, applied
classification algorithms and solicited judgments from native listeners
in a perceptual experiment. There appeared to be multi-parametric
differences between jasnÄ› realizations in terms of their F0, timing and
intensity patterns, which gave rise to generally consistent
form-function mappings. For example, resignation seems to be realized
with a falling intonation contour, relatively slow tempo, long
wordinitial consonant and a short word-final vowel. Although the most
significant prosodic parameters used for clustering analysis involved
segment durations, all pragmatic functions were expressed by patterns of
multiple features.</p