A pitch accent for contrastive emphasis in Danish?

Poster available here

Data and code for FPCA available here

Software citations

  • contour_clustering_gui: Kaland (2023)
  • fdapace version 0.6.0: Zhou et al. (2024)
  • R version 4.5.0: R Core Team (2025)
  • SpeechRecorder: Draxler & Jänsch (2004)
  • wrassp version 1.0.5: Winkelmann, Harrington & Jänsch (2017)

References

Draxler, Christoph & Klaus Jänsch. 2004. SpeechRecorder. A universal platform independent multi-channel audio recording software. In Maria Teresa Lino, Maria Francisca Xavier, Fátima Ferreira, Rute Costa & Raquel Silva (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 559–562. Lisbon: European Language Resources Association.
Dyhr, Niels-Jørn. 1995. The fundamental frequency in Danish spontaneous speech with special references to syllables boosted for emphasis. In Jørgen Rischel & Hans Basbøll (eds.), Aspects of Danish prosody (49-67), 49–67. Odense Universitetsforlag.
(Grønnum) Thorsen, Nina. 1980. Neutral stress, emphatic stress, and sentence intonation in Advanced Standard Copenhagen Danish. Annual Report of the Institute of Phonetics, University of Copenhagen 14, 121–205. doi:10.7146/aripuc.v14i.131739.
Grønnum, Nina. 2022. Modeling Danish intonation. In Jonathan Barnes & Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (eds.), Prosodic theory and practice, 85–119. Cambridge & New York: The MIT Press. doi:10.7551/mitpress/10413.003.0005.
Gussenhoven, Carlos. 2004. The phonology of tone and intonation (Research Surveys in Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511616983.
Kaland, Constantijn. 2023. Contour clustering: A field-data-driven approach for documenting and analysing prototypical F0 contours. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 53(1), 159–188. doi:10.1017/S0025100321000049.
R Core Team. 2025. R. A language and environment for statistical computing.
Tøndering, John. 2003. Intonation contours in Danish spontaneous speech. In Maria-Josep Solé, Daniel Recasens & J. Romero (eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1241–1244. Universitat Autonoma De Barcelona.
Winkelmann, Raphael, Jonathan Harrington & Klaus Jänsch. 2017. EMU-SDMS. Advanced speech database management and analysis in R. Computer Speech & Language 45, 392–410. doi:10.1016/j.csl.2017.01.002.
Zhou, Yidong, Han Chen, Su I Iao, Poorbita Kundu, Hang Zhou, Satarupa Bhattacharjee, Cody Carroll, et al. 2024. fdapace. Functional data analysis and empirical dynamics.