Rises on pitch accents and edge tones affect serial recall performance at item and domain levels
This paper investigates the effect of intonational rises on attention towards, and ultimately, recall of, medial elements in nine-digit lists in German. Non-final triplets (positions 1, 2, 3 and 4, 5, 6) were produced with either a rise or a fall on digits in positions 3 and 6. Rises led to signific...
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| description | This paper investigates the effect of intonational rises on attention towards, and ultimately, recall of, medial elements in nine-digit lists in German. Non-final triplets (positions 1, 2, 3 and 4, 5, 6) were produced with either a rise or a fall on digits in positions 3 and 6. Rises led to significantly improved recall over falls. Crucially, the nature and shape of the rise determined the position in which better recall was found. A pitch accent rise on specific digits (at positions 3 and 6) had a local effect on recall of those digits. A boundary rise, marking the end of a triplet, not only boosted recall of the specific digits but also boosted recall of the whole triplet. These results support a prosodic hierarchy in which edge tones areassociated with a whole domain (such as an intermediate phrase), rather than simply being placed at its edge, in accounting for the effect on recall of the digits within that domain. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0ef3c717a39e486cbd7474571503c94d2025-08-20T02:58:55ZengOpen Library of HumanitiesLaboratory Phonology1868-63542024-10-0115110.16995/labphon.10473Rises on pitch accents and edge tones affect serial recall performance at item and domain levelsChristine Tanja Röhr0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2911-8382Martine Grice1Michelina Savino2Petra B. Schumacherhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0263-8502T. Mark Ellison3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7514-0612IfL-Phonetik, University of CologneUniversity of Cologne IfL-Phonetik, University of CologneThis paper investigates the effect of intonational rises on attention towards, and ultimately, recall of, medial elements in nine-digit lists in German. Non-final triplets (positions 1, 2, 3 and 4, 5, 6) were produced with either a rise or a fall on digits in positions 3 and 6. Rises led to significantly improved recall over falls. Crucially, the nature and shape of the rise determined the position in which better recall was found. A pitch accent rise on specific digits (at positions 3 and 6) had a local effect on recall of those digits. A boundary rise, marking the end of a triplet, not only boosted recall of the specific digits but also boosted recall of the whole triplet. These results support a prosodic hierarchy in which edge tones areassociated with a whole domain (such as an intermediate phrase), rather than simply being placed at its edge, in accounting for the effect on recall of the digits within that domain.https://www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/10473/serial recallintonationprosodic hierarchyrising intonationprominenceworking memory |
| spellingShingle | Christine Tanja Röhr Martine Grice Michelina Savino Petra B. Schumacher T. Mark Ellison Rises on pitch accents and edge tones affect serial recall performance at item and domain levels Laboratory Phonology serial recall intonation prosodic hierarchy rising intonation prominence working memory |
| title | Rises on pitch accents and edge tones affect serial recall performance at item and domain levels |
| title_full | Rises on pitch accents and edge tones affect serial recall performance at item and domain levels |
| title_fullStr | Rises on pitch accents and edge tones affect serial recall performance at item and domain levels |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rises on pitch accents and edge tones affect serial recall performance at item and domain levels |
| title_short | Rises on pitch accents and edge tones affect serial recall performance at item and domain levels |
| title_sort | rises on pitch accents and edge tones affect serial recall performance at item and domain levels |
| topic | serial recall intonation prosodic hierarchy rising intonation prominence working memory |
| url | https://www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/10473/ |
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