Carlos Gussenhoven

Datos Biográficos

ID74989
NOMBRECarlos Gussenhoven
NOMBRESCarlos
APELLIDOGussenhoven
FIRMAGUSSENHOVEN C
AFILIACIONESRadboud University Nijmegen
ORCID0000-0002-3263-162X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS112
TOTAL DE CITAS313
TOTAL COMO AUTOR62
TOTAL COMO EDITOR50
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1983
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H10

  • Dipping and Falling as competing strategies for maintaining the distinctiveness of the low tone in the four-tone system of Kaifeng Mandarin

    Open AccessLei Wang, Marco Van De Ven et al.ARTICLEJournal of Phonetics2025Referencias: 40

  • Responses to time pressure on phrase-final melodies in varieties of Dutch and West Frisian

    Open AccessJudith Hanssen, Jörg Peters et al.ARTICLEJournal of Phonetics2022Referencias: 24

    In order to investigate the effect of time pressure on the execution of falling and falling-rising pitch movements on phrase-final syllables, we ran a production experiment with 119 speakers distributed over five regional varieties of West-Germanic spoken in the Netherlands and Standard Dutch. They realized nuclear Falls and Fall-Rises on four IP-final monosyllabic target words in which the duration of the sonorant portion of the syllable rhyme w…

  • Word-Stress Systems

    Matthew Gordon, Matthew K Gordon et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    This chapter provides a typological and theoretical overview of word stress. Drawing on broad cross-linguistic data, it discusses phonological and phonetic characteristics of stress. It evaluates the typological distribution of stress systems along multiple dimensions, including notions such as obligatoriness and culminativity, the directionality of edge orientation, weight (in)sensitivity, rhythm, stress windows, non-finality, boundedness, prima…

  • Visual Prosody Across Cultures

    Marc Swerts, Emiel Krahmer et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    Communication partners not only exchange information through the auditory channel but also use a wide range of visual cues, such as facial expressions, eye gaze, hand gestures, and other types of body language. The latter set of features can be subsumed under the term ‘visual prosody’. Visual cues have been shown to be communicatively relevant, as they not only help to improve speech intelligibility, especially in noisy conditions, but can also s…

  • Prosodic Encoding of Information Structure

    Frank Kügler, Sasha Calhoun et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    In many languages, prosody plays a key role in encoding information structure (IS). In general, focused elements are more prominent, while topical and given elements are less prominent. This chapter reviews evidence for prosodic cues to focus, topic, and givenness across a wide range of languages, in relation to a common IS framework. A typology is proposed of stress-based, phrase-based, and register-based focus-marking strategies. There are, how…

  • Prosodic Bootstrapping

    Judit Gervain, Anne Christophe et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    This chapter covers theoretical frameworks and experimental findings showing that young infants are already sensitive to language prosody prenatally and can use it to learn about the lexical and morphosyntactic features of their native language(s). Specifically, the chapter first summarizes how prosody relates to the lexicon and the grammar in different languages. It then reviews empirical evidence about prosodic perception in infants. Subsequent…

  • Southern Europe

    Mariapaola D’Imperio, Barbara Gili Fivela et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    This chapter reviews the prosodic systems and intonational phonology of a group of Southern European languages: Italian, French, Greek, and Maltese. It describes their stress, phrasing, rhythm, and intonational phonology, with particular attention to phonologically informed experimental work. In the case of Italian, given the lack of a spoken standard (which is only used by professional speakers) and the descriptions of quite a number of varietie…

  • Prosody in Automatic Speech Processing

    Anton Batliner, Bernd Möbius et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    Automatic speech processing (ASP) is understood as covering word recognition, the processing of higher linguistic components (syntax, semantics, and pragmatics), and the processing of computational paralinguistics (CP), which deals with speaker states and traits. This chapter attempts to track the role of prosody in ASP from the word level up to CP. A short history of the field from 1980 to 2020 distinguishes the early years (until 2000)—when the…

  • Asian Pacific Rim

    Sun-Ah Jun, Sun‐ah Jun et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    This chapter describes the prosodic systems of Japanese and Korean, the two major languages spoken in the Asian Pacific Rim. It covers both lexical and post-lexical prosody of these languages, with the main focus on word accent and intonation. As for word accent, Japanese and Korean both exhibit various pitch accent systems ranging from those with multiple accent patterns to those in which pitch plays no distinctive role at the lexical level. The…

  • Central and Eastern Europe

    Maciej Karpinski, Bistra Andreeva et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    The languages of Central and Eastern Europe addressed in this chapter form a typologically divergent collection that includes Slavic (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, pluricentric Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian), Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian), Finno-Ugric (Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian), and Romance (Romanian). Their prosodic features and structures have been explored to various depths, …

  • The North Atlantic and the Arctic

    Kristján Árnason, Anja Arnhold et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    Goidelic word stress is initial but with some signs of quantity sensitivity. Phrasal intonation tends to be falling (for both declaratives and questions) in southern Irish dialects but rising in northern ones. Interrogativity is marked by phonetic adjustments in initial or final accents of the utterance. Icelandic and Faroese have traditional word-initial stress-to-weight but show signs of penultimate stress patterns in loanwords. Intonation is c…

  • North America

    Gabriela Caballero, Matthew K Gordon et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    This chapter explores the typologically rich but relatively understudied prosodic systems attested in North American Indian languages, many of which are either critically endangered or no longer spoken. Both word-level patterns (including stress, tone, and pitch accent) and higher-level phenomena (encompassing intonation and prosodic constituency) are considered within the broader contexts of prosodic typology and prosodic drift. Topics include s…

  • Fundamental Aspects in the Perception of f0

    Oliver Niebuhr, Henning Reetz et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    This chapter outlines basic characteristics and principles in the perception of f0 and its interplay with other prosodic and segmental elements of speech. It focuses on those theoretical and empirical contributions that are essential for readers to know in order to conduct, interpret, and assess research on prosody and intonation. Thus, it starts with the psychophysical and psychoacoustic aspects of f0 and pitch, and continues with how perceived …

  • Mainland South East Asia

    Marc Brunelle, James Kirby et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    The languages of Mainland South East Asia belong to five language phyla, yet they are often claimed to constitute a linguistic area. This chapter’s primary goal is to illustrate the areal features found in their prosodic systems while emphasizing their understated diversity. The first part of the chapter addresses the typology of word-level prosody. It describes common word shapes and stress patterns in the region, discusses tone inventories, and…

  • Articulatory Measures of Prosody

    Taehong Cho, Doris Mücke et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    Prosodic research in speech production usually focuses on the way the prosodic structure influences the phonetic implementation of segmental and suprasegmental features. The realization of a tone, for instance, involves not only dynamic changes so as to regulate the vocal fold vibration to produce f0 contours, but also the movement of articulators to simultaneously produce consonants and vowels. Articulatory measuring techniques help us to direct…

  • Prosody in Discourse and Speaker State

    Julia Hirschberg, Štefan Beňuš et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    This chapter examines prosodic variation in discourse and in speaker state. The discussion of discourse prosody includes an examination of both prosodic entrainment and turn-taking behaviours. Prosodic entrainment results from the tendency of speakers to become more like each other as they speak in a variety of behaviours including pitch, speaking rate, and intensity, as well as higher-level prosodic elements such as pitch accent and phrasal tone…

  • Iberia

    Sónia Frota, Pilar Prieto et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    This chapter describes the main features of the prosodic systems of Basque, Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish within the autosegmental-metrical (AM) model. In its word prosody, Basque comprises pitch-accent and stress systems, while the other languages differ in the distribution of final and antepenultimate lexical stress. A discussion of prosodic phrasing and phrasal prominence patterns reveals that accentual phrases play a crucial role in Basque…

  • Sentence Prosody in a Second Language

    Jürgen Trouvain, Bettina Braun et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    This chapter provides an overview of (i) the intonational properties of second language (L2) speech above the word level, (ii) timing aspects, and (iii) the perception and processing of the target languages’ prosody by L2 learners. Intonationally, the chapter summarizes prosodic differences between different learner groups regarding prosodic marking of information structure (highlighting of new or contrastive information), illocution (questions o…

  • Meanings of Tones and Tunes

    Matthijs Westera, Daniel Goodhue et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    Theories of intonational meaning can be organized into two broad categories. Specialist theories aim to capture the meaning of a particular type of intonation contour, or even just a particular usage of that contour, typically using tools from formal semantics. By contrast, generalist theories aim to capture the meanings of a broader range of contours, typically by assigning more basic, underspecified meanings to a larger set of prosodic morpheme…

  • The Autosegmental-Metrical Theory of Intonational Phonology

    Amalia Arvaniti, Janet Fletcher et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    The chapter outlines the basic principles of the autosegmental-metrical (AM) theory of intonational phonology. AM posits that at the phonological level intonation consists of a string of L(ow) and H(igh) tones (i.e. a string of tonal autosegments) that associate with metrical heads and phrasal boundaries. Phonetically, tones are realized as tonal targets, specific f0 points defined by their scaling and alignment; scaling refers to the pitch heigh…

  • Stress, Meter, and Text-Setting

    Paul Kiparsky, Carlos Gussenhoven et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    Verse meter organizes prominence-marking categories into isochronous and binary hierarchical rhythmic structures, subject to principles that are rooted in the faculty of language, stylized in verbal art, and manifested in a generalized and more abstract form in music and dance. This chapter outlines a theory of constraint-based generative metrics, and sketches out how it represents metrical structure and derives the typology of metrical systems. …

  • Tone–Melody Matching in tone-Language Singing

    D Robert Ladd, James Kirby et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    Singing in tone languages has been the subject of a good deal of research, which shows that text-setting constraints are the heart of the solution to respecting both the linguistic and the musical functions of pitch. The most important principle in maintaining intelligibility of song texts seems to be the avoidance of contrary settings: musical pitch movement up or down from one syllable to the next should not be the opposite of the linguisticall…

  • Cortical and Subcortical Processing of Linguistic Pitch Patterns

    Joseph C Y Lau, Zilong Xie et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    Pitch is one of the major prosodic cues in speech. A central research question is the way the brain derives the percept of pitch from incoming acoustic information. After introducing the functional architecture of the human auditory system, this chapter reviews lesion and neuroimaging studies and human electrophysiological studies of the processing of linguistically relevant pitch patterns at the cortical and subcortical levels, respectively. Rec…

  • Prosody and Spoken-Word Recognition

    James M Mcqueen, Laura C Dilley et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    This chapter outlines a Bayesian model of spoken-word recognition and reviews how prosody is part of that model. The review focuses on the information that assists the listener in recognizing the prosodic structure of an utterance and on how spoken-word recognition is also constrained by prior knowledge about prosodic structure. Recognition is argued to be a process of perceptual inference that ensures that listening is robust to variability in t…

  • Tone in Germanic

    Carlos Gussenhoven

    There can be few other researchers who have more emphatically insisted that the study of lexical tone should take place in the context of intonation than Professor Zongji Wu. Under variation in intonation, the underlying tones of Standard Chinese ‘form a large