Metrical prominence - Scales and structures (A07)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 281511265

Our central research topic will be the division of labour between speech and gesture in the expression as well as perception of multimodal prosodic prominence relations. We will gain insights on whether the contribution of pitch accents and beat components of hand, head and eyebrow gestures as a function of meaning-related factors is additive or compensatory in nature. The same set of semantic-pragmatic and syntactic factors will be examined in (a) a TED Talk, (b) a comparison between monologic and dialogic communication and (c) native (German) speech versus speech by language learners (French learners of German).

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1252: Prominence in Language
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Stefan Baumann