Pitch accent realizatio

The realization of pitch accents in German, Dutch and English has been extensively studied. However, as far as we know, a systematic comparison is still lacking. The present paper is a partial presentation of results of a larger study to Britain are conducting the same experiments as the one presented here, and in the near future, we will be able to compare the three languages. This paper provides the results for German, giving first an account of the vertical scaling of prenuclear rising and nuclear falling accents, second, an account of the horizontal alignment of falling nuclear tones in narrow and broad focus, and, third, more detailed phonetic data on downstep. 1