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Postfocal Downstep in German

Language and Speech, 2016
This article is a follow-up study of Féry and Kügler (2008. Pitch accent scaling on given, new and focused constituents in German. Journal of Phonetics, 36, 680–703). It reports on an experiment of the F0 height of potential pitch accents in the postfocal region of German sentences and addresses in this way an aspect of the influence of information ...
Kuegler, Frank, Fery, Caroline
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The Relevance of Downstep for a Phonetic Component

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1986
In this chapter, it will be shown that the study of downstep systems can shed light on the distinction between phonetic and phonological components. Downstep is particularly relevant in this respect because it involves the phonetic interpretation of phonological strings. Consider the following examples from Tiv, in which the phonetic pitch level of ga ‘
Douglas Pulleyblank
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Downstep Deletion in Aghem

1987
Larry M Hyman
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Downstep in high-low sequences in Chinese

2010 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2010
In this study, based on the analysis of the pitch of sequences with 2 to 7 high (H) and low (L) tones, the downstep mechanism in Chinese tone production is investigated. It is found that downstep exists in HL sequences of different lengths, and the speaker does not only raise the initial H tone when there are more downsteps, but also depress the final ...
Mao-Lin Wang, Hua Wu, Ai-Jun Li
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Syntax and Downstep in Japanese

1991
Two distinct phenomena of Japanese sentence tonology appear to depend on surface syntactic structure. The first is Downstep, a change in pitch register which is manifested as a marked lowering in the stretch of an utterance following an accented syllable. The second is Initial Lowering, a rise to the second mora of a word, ascribed to the presence of a
Elisabeth Selkirk, Koichi Tateishi
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Downstep exceptions in Ibibio

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2013
Downdrift and downstep are processes which may cause lowering of high tone syllables. Downdrift is intonational, occurring at phrasal or utterance level, while downstep is a phonological process which acts from one tone-bearing unit to the next such that H tones lower successively.
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Lexicalisation of tonal downstep in Yoruba

Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 2020
AbstractThis work challenges the assumption that tonal downstep is a juncture feature in Yoruba by providing data, both from everyday conversation and from classical Yoruba dictionaries, which prove that the phenomenon is part of the lexical composition of many Yoruba words.
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Downstep and fusion in Namwanga

Phonology, 2000
Namwanga is a Bantu language spoken in the Northern province of Zambia.In this paper I would like to present an overview of Namwanga verbal tonology, specifically focusing on the issue of where downstep occurs and how best to account for it. It will be argued that the surface distribution of downstep can be most insightfully accounted for if one ...
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Leading tones and downstep in English

Phonology, 1995
In early autosegmental studies certain segments were specially marked with a ‘star’ diacritic. These starred segments had a priority association; only in a later stage of the derivation were other segments associated. Starred associations were resistant to modification by subsequent rules: ‘the point is to preserve the prominence of the star ...
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Downstep in Dutch: implications for a model

1992
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Berg, R.J.H. van den, Gussenhoven, C., Rietveld, T.   +2 more
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