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Automatic Prominence Classification in Swedish
, 2010 This study aims at automatically classifying levels of acoustic prominence on a dataset of 200 Swedish sentences of read speech by one male native speaker.
Ananthakrishnan, Gopal, +2 more
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An ecolinguistic analysis of the salience of non-human beings in children’s literature as represented by Katherine Applegate’s Wishtree [PDF]
Journal of Languages and Translation, 2023 This paper aims to study Wishtree by Katherine Alice Applegate from an ecolinguistic perspective by revealing how the non-human elements of nature, as represented in the novel by the tree Red, the crow Bongo, and the other birds and animals, are depicted
Naglaa Ahmed Awny
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Standing out in context: Prominence in the production and perception of public speech
Laboratory Phonology, 2023 This study investigates the relationship between signal-based factors and discourse context in the production and perception of prominence, extending prior work on prominence in American English by examining speech from complete TED Talks as examples of ...
Jennifer Cole, Stefan Baumann, Suyeon Im
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Acoustic emphasis in four year olds [PDF]
, 2008 Acoustic emphasis may convey a range of subtle discourse distinctions, yet little is known about how this complex ability develops in children. This paper presents a first investigation of the factors which influence the production of acoustic prominence
Elizabeth Wonnacott +3 more
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Laboratory Phonology, 2023 It is well-established for assertions that the information-structural status of referents influences prosodic prominence: givenness reduces and contrastive focus increases prominence.
Heiko Seeliger, Sophie Repp
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-ING suplementive clauses and discourse prominence in literary journalism
Journal of English Studies, 2015 This study explores the role of –ing supplementive clauses as markers of discourse prominence in literary journalism. These apparently minor linguistic units - “Using them as cups, they sip the filthy water” (Time,14 January 2013: 18) - stubbornly resist
María-Ángeles Martínez
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V1 in Kipsigis: Head movement and discourse-based scrambling
Glossa, 2019 Kipsigis (Nilo-Saharan, Kenya) is a verb-initial language that exhibits a VSO/VOS alternation, in which the felicity of postverbal word orders is dependent on information structure.
Madeline Bossi, Michael Diercks
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Laboratory Phonology, 2020 In a discourse, a listener must keep track of information which is presupposed, or established, with the speaker, and that which is new in the common ground. Focus marking helps listeners identify the new information, and reject false alternatives to it;
Mengzhu Yan, Sasha Calhoun
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Topic prominence in Chinese EFL learners’ interlanguage
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014 The present study aims to investigate the general characteristics of topicprominent typological interlanguage development of Chinese learners of English in terms of acquiring subject-prominent English structures from a discourse perspective.
Shaopeng Li, Lianrui Yang
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Glossa, 2023 This study investigated how two different kinds of prominence-induced prosodic strengthening, identificational focus and contrastive focus, are phonetically realized in Seoul Korean.
Dong Jin Kim, Hanyong Park, Okgi Kim
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