Explaining the PENTA model: A reply to Arvaniti and Ladd

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Author list: Xu Y., Lee A., Prom-On S., Liu F.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication year: 2016

Journal: Phonology (0952-6757)

Volume number: 32

Issue number: 3

Start page: 505

End page: 535

Number of pages: 31

ISSN: 0952-6757

eISSN: 1469-8188

URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84958766716&doi=10.1017%2fS0952675715000299&partnerID=40&md5=411387ab93ea32934c3752c219312397

Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the Parallel Encoding and Target Approximation (PENTA) model of speech prosody, in response to an extensive critique by Arvaniti & Ladd (2009). PENTA is a framework for conceptually and computationally linking communicative meanings to fine-grained prosodic details, based on an articulatory-functional view of speech. Target Approximation simulates the articulatory realisation of underlying pitch targets - the prosodic primitives in the framework. Parallel Encoding provides an operational scheme that enables simultaneous encoding of multiple communicative functions. We also outline how PENTA can be computationally tested with a set of software tools. With the help of one of the tools, we offer a PENTA-based hypothetical account of the Greek intonational patterns reported by Arvaniti & Ladd, showing how it is possible to predict the prosodic shapes of an utterance based on the lexical and postlexical meanings it conveys. Copyright ฉ Cambridge University Press 2016.

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