This repository contains the analysis files used for the ICPhS 2023 paper Testing the Locus of Speech-Act Meaning in English Intonation and the related ASA 2023 poster Tonal Center of Gravity Predicts Variation in the Interpretation of Rising and Falling Intonation in American English. The OSF page, which also contains the stimuli, proceedings papers, and posters is available here: https://osf.io/8hrfv/

Some notes:

• Writeups/models.qmd runs all models and the performance metrics used for the ASA poster
• Writeups/figures.qmd runs creates all the other figures used in the ASA poster and ICPhS paper
• cmdstanr doesn't play well with renv for whatever reason. Install instructions here: https://mc-stan.org/cmdstanr/

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("stan-dev/cmdstanr")

Otherwise, you can run the following:

renv::restore() # Install all packages
library(targets)
library(tarchetypes)

tar_make() # Run analyses and render figures

Explanation of directories:

• Data: Contains data from each experiment
• Figures: Figures used in the paper available as .svg and .pdf files
• Helpers: .R files containing various helper functions. Some are redundant with the sosprosody package and others aren't used in this portion of the project.
• Models: Models reported in the paper, as .rds files
• Writeups: .qmd and standalone .html files for running the models and generating the figures. Re-rendering the .qmd files will overwrite the .html files.
• renv: renv environment for the packages used in this analysis. Please refer to this page for more information on using renv.

Citations

If you use any of the code contained in this repository, please cite our paper:

Sostarics, T., & Cole, J. (2023). Testing the Locus of Speech-Act Meaning in English Intonation. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1240–1244). Guarant International

@inproceedings{sostarics2023icphs,
  author={Sostarics, Thomas and Cole, Jennifer},
  title={{Testing the Locus of Speech-Act Meaning in English Intonation}},
  year={2023},
  booktitle={{Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences}},
  pages={1240--1244},
  publisher={Guarant International},
  editor={Radek Skarnitzl and Jan Vol\'in}
}

Specific reference to the ASA poster should be made with:

Sostarics, T., & Cole, J. (2023). Tonal center of gravity predicts variation in the interpretation of rising and falling intonation in American English. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(3_supplement), A78–A78. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0018225

@article{sostaricscole2023asa,
    author = {Sostarics, Thomas and Cole, Jennifer},
    title = "{Tonal center of gravity predicts variation in the interpretation of rising and falling intonation in American English}",
    journal = {The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
    volume = {153},
    number = {3\_supplement},
    pages = {A78-A78},
    year = {2023},
    month = {03},
    issn = {0001-4966},
    doi = {10.1121/10.0018225},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0018225},
}