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Prosodic phrasing, pitch range, and word order variation in Murrinhpatha

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Kidd,  Evan
Australian National University;
Language Development Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language;

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Fletcher, J., Kidd, E., Stoakes, H., & Nordlinger, R. (2022). Prosodic phrasing, pitch range, and word order variation in Murrinhpatha. In R. Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 201-205). Canberra: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000C-06C0-4
Abstract
Like many Indigenous Australian languages, Murrinhpatha has flexible word order with no apparent configurational syntax. We analyzed an experimental corpus of Murrinhpatha utterances for associations between different thematic role orders, intonational phrasing patterns and pitch downtrends. We found that initial constituents (Agents or Patients) tend to carry the highest pitch targets (HiF0), followed by patterns of downstep and declination. Sentence-final verbs always have lower Hif0 values than either initial or medial Agents or Patients. Thematic role order does not influence intonational
patterns, with the results suggesting that Murrinhpatha has positional prosody, although final nominals can disrupt global
pitch downtrends regardless of thematic role.