B01
(In)Variability in prosodic cues and their incremental use in perception, production, and interaction
PI(s): Prof. Dr. Isabell Wartenburger & Prof. Dr. Outi Tuomainen & Dr. Sandra Hanne
Prosody is central to successful communication. This project focuses on, first, the facilitative role and predictive function of prosody for language processing in individuals with aphasia and investigates whether and how their sentence comprehension abilities benefit from prosodic cues. Second, we strive to predict variability in prosodic cue production from variability in using prosodic cues in perception in unimpaired individuals. Third, we will investigate the sources and limits of variability in naturalistic interactive settings in younger and elderly unimpaired individuals. Overall, our project will contribute to a better understanding of the function of prosody and its representation in the linguistic system.
in phase 1:
Prosodic cue variability: Effects on spoken language comprehension and production in different populations
PI(s): Prof. Dr. Isabell Wartenburger & Dr. phil. Sandra Hanne
This project investigates the limits of intra- and inter-individual variability in the comprehension and production of prosodic cues in structurally ambiguous sentences or utterances. We aim to characterize in more depth the internal organization of the prosody-syntax-interface as part of the mental grammar and to specify neuro-cognitive models of prosody processing. Specifically, we focus on the limits of variability in prosody production and prosody comprehension using different linguistic structures (coordinate name sequences, locally/globally ambiguous sentences) in different populations (healthy young and elderly adults, individuals with left or right hemispheric brain damage).
We found a rather stable linguistic behaviour in the production of prosodic cues in coordinate name sequences, both with or without internal grouping, in younger adults: prosodic cues (i.e., pre-boundary lengthening, f0-rise, pause) are used in a relatively consistent way to mark the internal grouping of name sequences across individuals and within individuals (i.e., when talking to different interlocutors). Furthermore, all three prosodic cues seem to be relevant, none of them is used in isolation to mark the underlying syntactic structure. We conclude that prosodic cues are resistant to influences of cognitive factors (inter-individual differences) and/or social situations (intra-individual differences, e.g., when talking to different interlocutors). Our data are in line with the Proximity/Similarity-Model of Kentner & Fery (2013, The Linguistic Review). Regarding the prosodic realization and differentiation of locally ambiguous OVS and SVO sentences, we find a more variable behaviour: only some speakers use specific f0 contours to distinguish between these sentence types. Furthermore, for those speakers who used specific f0 contours to distinguish between the two sentences types, we found a high inter- and intra-individual variability with respect to the distinctive f0 contours they employed. In individuals with right- and left-hemispheric lesions, we find that both groups are impaired in the comprehension and production of prosodic cues (pre-boundary lengthening, f0-rise, pause) in coordinate sequences. In comprehension, we found both groups of participants to mainly rely on the pause cue (in line with Aasland & Baum, 2003, Brain and Language). Comprehension and production of prosodic cues were found to markedly vary between participants. Additionally, some individuals’ performance in comprehension clearly differed from their production of prosodic cues. These findings speak against clear lateralization hypotheses of prosody to either the left or right hemisphere.
Members
Lahari Chatterjee
Universität PotsdamCampus GolmDepartment LinguistikKarl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, Haus 14, Raum 2.0414476 Potsdam
Dr. phil. Sandra Hanne
Universität PotsdamCampus GolmDepartment LinguistikKarl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, Haus 14, Raum 2.0214476 Potsdam
Andrea Hofmann
Universität PotsdamCampus GolmDepartment LinguistikKarl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, Haus 14, Raum 2.0414476 Potsdam
Kathleen Schneider
Universität PotsdamCampus GolmDepartment LinguistikKarl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, Haus 14, Raum 2.0414476 Potsdam
Prof. Dr. Outi Tuomainen
Universität PotsdamCampus GolmDepartment LinguistikKarl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, Haus 14, Raum 2.0314476 Potsdam
Prof. Dr. Isabell Wartenburger
Universität PotsdamCampus GolmDepartment LinguistikKarl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, Haus 14, Raum 2.3914476 Potsdam
Publications
Types of publications:
- Peer-Reviewed: Papers, Journals, Books, Articles of the CRC
- Talk or Presentation: Talks, Presentations, Posters of the CRC
- SFB-Related: not produced in connection with the CRC, but are thematically appropriate
- Other: Papers, Journals, Books, Articles of the CRC, but not peer-reviewed
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| Author(s) | Title | Year | Published in | Links | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huttenlauch, C., De Beer, C., Hanne, S., & Wartenburger, I. | Production of prosodic cues in coordinate name sequences addressing varying interlocutors. | 2021 | Laboratory Phonology 12(1): 1, pp. 1–31. DOI: 10.5334/labphon.221 | Paper Data+Code | Peer-Reviewed |
| De Beer, C., Huttenlauch, C., Wartenburger, I., & Hanne, S. | Produktion und Rezeption prosodischer Cues bei Aphasie. | 2020 | S. Breitenstein, Ö. Yetim, J. Burmeste & T. Fritzsche (Eds.), Spektrum Patholinguistik 12 - Weg(e) mit dem Stottern - Therapie und Selbsthilfe für Kinder und Erwachsene (pp. 125-142). Potsdam: Universitätsverlag. DOI: 10.25932/publishup-46954 | Paper | Other |
| De Beer, C. | Production and comprehension of prosodic cues in coordinate structures in people with right-hemisphere lesion. | 2019 | Invited talk at the Kolloquium des Institutes für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany. 23 May. | Talk or Presentation | |
| De Beer, C., Huttenlauch, C., Hanne, S., & Wartenburger, I. | Prosodic cue production in coordinate structures: Influence of varying top-down information. | 2018 | Poster presented at the 2nd International Conference Prominence in Language (ICPL2), Cologne, Germany. 11 - 13 July. | Paper | Talk or Presentation |
| De Beer, C., Huttenlauch, C., Hanne, S., & Wartenburger, I. | Inter- and Intra-individual Variability in Prosodic Cue Production. | 2018 | Paper presented at the 40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. AG 2 ''The relation between prosodic and referential structure''. University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. 07 - 09 March. | Paper | Talk or Presentation |
| De Beer, C., Huttenlauch, C., Wartenburger, I., & Hanne, S. | Produktion und Rezeption prosodischer Cues bei Aphasie. | 2018 | Poster presented at the 12. Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik - Weg(e) mit dem Stottern: Therapie und Selbsthilfe für Kinder und Erwachsene, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. 24 November. | Paper | Talk or Presentation |
| De Beer, C., Regenbrecht, F., Huttenlauch, C., Wartenburger, I., Obrig, H., & Hanne, S. | Lateralization of prosodic processing in individuals with unilateral brain damage. | 2020 | Presented at the 26th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP 2020), Potsdam [online conference]. 03-05 September. | Paper | Talk or Presentation |
| Hanne, S., Burchert, F., & Vasishth, S. | Processing of ambiguous and unambiguous morphological cues in object-verb-subject sentences: Is there an SVO-bias? | 2018 | Poster presented at the 31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA, 15 - 17 March. | Paper | Talk or Presentation |
| Hansen, M.*, Aivazian, V.*, Huttenlauch, C., De Beer, C., Hanne, S., & Wartenburger, I. (*equal contribution) | How Much Prosody is Needed? Perception of Prosodic Grouping in Gated Ambiguous Name Sequences. | 2020 | Poster presented at the 26th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP 2020), Potsdam [online conference]. 04 September. | Paper | Talk or Presentation |
| Huttenlauch, C., De Beer, C., Hanne, S., & Wartenburger, I. | Production of prosodic cues in coordinate name sequences addressing varying interlocutors. | 2019 | Poster presented at the 15. Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung (P&P 15), Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany. 25 - 27 September. | Paper | Talk or Presentation |
| Huttenlauch, C., De Beer, C., Hanne, S., & Wartenburger, I. | Individual (non-)variability of prosodic cue production in coordinate structures. | 2018 | Poster presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP 2018), Berlin, Germany. 06 - 08 September. | Paper | Talk or Presentation |
| Huttenlauch, C., De Beer, C., Wartenburger, I., & Hanne, S. | Interlocutor induced (non-)variability of prosodic cue production in coordinate structures. | 2018 | Poster presented at the Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP 4), University of Massachussetts, Amherst, MA, USA. 11 - 13 October. | Paper | Talk or Presentation |
| Wartenburger, I. | Prosodic boundary cues in spoken language perception and production. | 2018 | Invited talk at the Lecture Series Cologne Center of Language Sciences (CCLS), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. 09 July. | Talk or Presentation | |
| De Beer, C., Hofmann, A., Regenbrecht, F., Huttenlauch, C., Wartenburger, I., Obrig, H., & Hanne, S. | Perzeption und Produktion prosodischer Cues bei Personen mit erworbener unilateraler rechts- oder linkshemishphärischer Hirnläsion. | 2021 | Paper presented at the 20. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Aphasieforschungs und -behandlung (GAB): Kommunikation - Sprache, Emotion, Kognition, 07. - 09. October, Online. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Tuomainen, O. | Effortful speaking and listening in interactive speech communication in background noise. | 2022 | Invited talk at the Lunch Meeting of the Phonetic & Speech Sciences Group, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. 08 March. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Wartenburger, I. | Prosodic boundary cues in spoken language comprehension and production – from infants to older adults. | 2021 | Invited talk at the Institut für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaften und dem Nationalen Forschungsschwerpunkt (NFS) „Evolving Language“, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. 01 December 2021. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Huttenlauch, C., Hansen, M., De Beer, C., Wartenburger, I., & Hanne, S. | Individual variability in prosodic marking of locally ambiguous sentences. | 2022 | Poster presented at the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Lisbon, Portugal. 23 - 26 May. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Huttenlauch, C., Hansen, M., De Beer, C., Wartenburger, I., & Hanne, S. | Individual variability in prosodic marking of locally ambiguous sentences. | 2022 | Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 165-169 DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-34 | Paper | Other |
| Hansen, M., Huttenlauch, C., De Beer, C., Wartenburger, I., & Hanne, S. | Individual Differences in Early Disambiguation of Prosodic Grouping. | 2022 | Language and Speech, 00238309221127374. DOI: 10.1177/00238309221127374 | Paper | Peer-Reviewed |
| Tuomainen, O. | Interactive speech communication in adverse listening conditions in normally hearing and hearing-impaired older adults. | 2022 | Invited talk at the Workshop on "Language learning in older adults: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", University of Essex, Colchester, UK. 23 June. | Talk or Presentation | |
| De Beer, C., Regenbrecht, F., Huttenlauch, C., Wartenburger, I., Obrig, H., & Hanne, S. | Kommunikative Beeinträchtigungen bei Personen mit rechtshemisphärischer Läsion: Produktion und Verständnis von Prosodie. | 2021 | Aphasie und verwandte Gebiete, 49(1/2021), 37-51. | Paper | Peer-Reviewed |
| De Beer, C., Hofmann, A., Regenbrecht, F., Huttenlauch, C., Wartenburger, I., Obrig, H., & Hanne, S. | Production and Comprehension of Prosodic Boundary Marking in Persons with Unilaterial Brain Lesions. | 2022 | Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-23. DOI: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00258 | Paper Data+Code | Peer-Reviewed |
| De Beer, C., Wartenburger, I., Huttenlauch, C., & Hanne, S. | A systematic review on production and comprehension of linguistic prosody in people with acquired language and communication disorders resulting from unilateral brain lesions. | 2023 | Journal of Communication Disorders, 101:106298, 1-27. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2022.106298 | Paper | Peer-Reviewed |