Abstract
This paper presents a study comprising two singing shadowing tasks focusing on prosodic features of music. The first experiment investigated alignment effects in a song known to the participants. They sang the song before and after listening to a recorded version of it. The second experiment tested which prosodic elements are best preserved in replications of an unfamiliar song. Methods used in phonetic accommodation studies were adapted and used to measure the effects. Results show that convergence occurs in singing, but not in the same manner across all tested features. Additionally, participants preserved rhythmic patterns better than the tonal contour in the unfamiliar music piece.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 606-610 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody |
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| State | Published - 2020 |
| Event | 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020 - Tokyo, Japan Duration: 25 May 2020 → 28 May 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We would like to express our special thanks to the composer Na’ama Tamir Kaplan for preparing and recording the stimuli used in this work and for her helpful ideas and input. This research was funded in part by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under grants MO 597/6 and STE 2363/1.
Publisher Copyright:
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Keywords
- Music and speech
- Prosodic alignment
- Shadowing experiment
- Vocal accommodation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language