Intonation development from five to thirteen [PDF]
, 2004 Research undertaken to date suggests that important developments in the understanding and use of intonation may take place after the age of 5;0. The present study aims to provide a more comprehensive account of these developments.
Goulandris, N., Peppé, S., Wells, B.
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Iambic Feet in Paumari and the Theory of Foot Structure
Linguistic Discovery, 2003 This paper analyzes stress and moraic constituencies in Paumari, an endangered language of the Arawan family of the Brazilian Amazon. It argues that Paumari feet are quantity-insensitive iambs, built from right-to-left within the prosodic word.
Daniel L. Everett
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Speech intelligibility and prosody production in children with cochlear implants [PDF]
, 2012 Objectives—The purpose of the current study was to examine the relation between speech intelligibility and prosody production in children who use cochlear implants.
Bergeson, Tonya R. +2 more
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Generating expressive speech for storytelling applications [PDF]
, 2006 Work on expressive speech synthesis has long focused on the expression of basic emotions. In recent years, however, interest in other expressive styles has been increasing.
Bailly, G. +8 more
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, 2023 This thesis explores the prosodic phonology of Middle High German (MHG), aiming to provide a thorough account of its structure as a system and consider its role in accounting for key sound changes. It highlights the pertinacity of certain prosodic structures, despite the sometimes quite substantially different surface output between MHG and Modern ...
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Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Knowledge Organization WissOrg'17 of theGerman Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO),30th November - 1st December 2017, Freie Universität Berlin [PDF]
, 2018 Wissensorganisation is the name of a series of biennial conferences / workshops with a long tradition, organized by the German chapter of the International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO).
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Speech rhythm: a metaphor? [PDF]
, 2014 Is speech rhythmic? In the absence of evidence for a traditional view that languages strive to coordinate either syllables or stress-feet with regular time intervals, we consider the alternative that languages exhibit contrastive rhythm subsisting merely
Abercrombie D +33 more
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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
, 2015 This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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Prominence in Indonesian Stress, Phrases, and Boundaries [PDF]
, 2009 Many (Western) languages have word-based stress, which entails that one, predictable syllable per word is more prominent than all the other syllables in that word. Some linguists claim that such stresses also occur in Indonesian.
Goedemans, R. (Rob) +1 more
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Morphological word structure in English and Swedish : the evidence from prosody [PDF]
, 2005 Trubetzkoy's recognition of a delimitative function of phonology, serving to signal boundaries between morphological units, is expressed in terms of alignment constraints in Optimality Theory, where the relevant constraints require specific morphological
Raffelsiefen, Renate
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