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Investigation of Validity of Paradigmatic Diagnosis for Downstep in Japanese*
2023 26th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (O-COCOSDA), 2023Satoshi Nakamura, Kei Furukawa
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A Reanalysis of Tonal Downstep
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 1979exaly +2 more sources
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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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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Syntax and Downstep in Japanese
1991Two 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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Key Lowering (Downstep/Downglide) in Dschang
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 1981exaly +2 more sources
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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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, 2020AbstractThis 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, 2000Namwanga 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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