Planning sentences and sentence intonation in Estonian
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Ots, Nele; Konopka, Agnieszka
- Source
- Subject
- eye-tracking
intonation
prosody
speech production
Estonian
planning
Fundamental Frequency
- Language
This project contains data and the documentation of the analysis procedures of the study "Planning sentences and sentence intonation in Estonian". Two eye-tracking experiments investigated the real-time planning of sentences and examined whether the prosodic planning depends on the conceptual and/or linguistic representation of incipient utterances. The results show that sentence-initial intonation peaks are highly sensitive to sentences’ duration, and not to the different degrees of conceptual complexity. Furthermore, eye movements indicate for Estonian—a morphological case-marking language—that sentence production is highly likely to start with a comprehensive conceptual plan. In overall, the study supports an idea that advance planning of sentence intonation depends on the linguistic representation that is derived from a detailed relational framework of incipient sentences.