Bibliographie annuelle: recherche suisse sur le plurilinguisme 2014

Notre Bibliographie annuelle de la recherche suisse sur le plurilinguisme contient une sélection de publications consacrées au plurilinguisme. Ce numéro de la bibliographie comprend des publications parues en 2015. Il contient des informations sur des articles de revues, des chapitres de livres, des monographies, des volumes collectifs et des documents en ligne publiés par des chercheurs et chercheuses d’institutions suisses ainsi que des travaux de chercheurs internationaux parus dans certaines revues spécialisées. La bibliographie recense des publications dans les langues nationales suisses ainsi qu’en anglais.The Annual Bibliography of Swiss Research on Multilingualism contains a selection of scholarly publications in the disciplines of linguistics, sociology, pedagogy and other fields related to multilingualism. This issue contains bibliographic information on publications from the year 2015. Includes articles from journals, book chapters, monographs, anthologies and online documents by researchers at Swiss institutions. We have also included publications which international researchers have contributed to Swiss journals. The bibliography catalogues publications in Switzerland’s official languages and in English.Unsere Jahresbibliographie Schweizer Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung enthält eine Auswahl der linguistischen, soziologischen, erziehungswissenschaftlichen und anderweitig dem Themenkomplex Mehrsprachigkeit gewidmeten wissenschaftlichen Literatur. Diese Ausgabe enthält bibliographische Angaben zu Veröffentlichungen aus dem Jahr 2015. In die Bibliographie werden Zeitschriftenaufsätze, Buchkapitel, Monographien, Sammelwerke und Online-Dokumente von Forscherinnen und Forschern an Schweizer Institutionen sowie Publikationen internationaler Forscher/innen in einigen Schweizer Fachzeitschriften aufgenommen. Berücksichtigt werden Veröffentlichungen in den Landessprachen der Schweiz sowie in englischer Sprache.La nostra Bibliografia annuale della ricerca svizzera sul plurilinguismo contiene una selezione delle pubblicazioni consacrate al plurilinguismo apparse in linguistica, sociologia, scienze dell’educazione o in altre discipline. Questo numero della bibliografia contiene le pubblicazioni apparse nel 2015. Esso include articoli di riviste, capitoli di libri, monografie, opere collettive e documenti digitali pubblicati da ricercatrici e ricercatori d’istituzioni svizzere, oltre a lavori di ricercatori internazionali apparsi in alcune riviste specializzate. La bibliografia censisce pubblicazioni nelle lingue nazionali svizzere e in inglese

The influence of speech rate on Fujisaki model parameters

The current paper examines influences of speech rate on Fujisaki model parameters based on read speech from the BonnTempo-Corpus containing productions by 12 native speakers of German at five different intended tempo levels (very slow, slow, normal, fast, fastest possible). The normal condition was produced at an average rate of 6.34 syllables/s or 100%, the very slow version at 67%, and the fastest version at 161% of the normal rate. We extracted F0 contours and subjected them to decomposition using the Fujisaki model. We ordered all the data with respect to their actual speech rates. First, we assessed how prosodic realizations vary with speech rate and examined phrase command magnitudes, the number of phrase commands as well as the base frequency, accent command amplitudes, and the timing of accent command with respects to the underlying syllables and their nuclear vowels. Second, we analyzed between-sentence variability within and between speakers and investigated whether and how the prosodic structure is preserved at different speech rates. For very slow speech, we found for some of the speakers that the original phrase structure had disintegrated into something like a list of isolated words separated by pauses. Very fast speech became chains of uniform syllables at very high pitch and with almost flat intonation. With respect to the F0 range reflected by the amplitude of accent commands, we found strong interspeaker differences. While four of the subjects exhibited a significant reduction at higher speech rates, the others did not. As speed increases, it appears that F0 gestures commence earlier in the syllable, that is, the onset time of accent commands is located closer to the syllable/vowel onset than at lower speed