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Prosodic speech production and thematic segmentation

This study concerns tonal and temporal prosodic production in relation to thematic segmentation. A series of relatively short radio news broadcasts produced by female and male professional speakers with well-defined thematic alternations was analysed. The main results indicate: (1) thematic tonal onset and thematic initial stress are higher than thematic tonal offset and thematic final stress respectively (2) hypothematic tonal range is fairly embedded in hyperthematic tonal range and (3) hyperthematic silent pauses are significantly longer than hypothematic ones.