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A Study of the Poetic License "Taskin" in Persian and Arabic Prosody: A Focus on on Molamma'at Mujir Al-Din Bilaqani, Mowlana, and Khajou Kermani [PDF]

open access: yesLiterary Arts
Poetic license is a vital concept in any prosodic system and it is particularly prominent in Persian and Arabic poetry. Among these, the Taskin license stands out as one of the most important and frequently utilized licenses in Persian prosody.
Oula Alsaid   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intonation development from five to thirteen [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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A bird's eye view over a Scandinavian isogloss : exponence of definiteness (in word prosody)

open access: yesBrünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik, 2016
The articulation of definiteness in the Scandinavian languages displays an intricate and complex pattern where all levels of grammar are involved.
Miguel Vázquez-Larruscaín
doaj   +1 more source

Speech intelligibility and prosody production in children with cochlear implants [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Iambic Feet in Paumari and the Theory of Foot Structure

open access: yesLinguistic 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
doaj   +1 more source

Русский стих: метрика, системы стихосложения, просодия (генеративный подход) [Russian verse: Its metrics, versification systems, and prosody (Generative synopsis)]

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2000
Russian verse: Its metrics, versification systems, and prosody (Generative synopsis). In the article the general verse metre theory and its application to Russian verse is adressed, allowing us, thereby, to observe not the single details, but only the ...
Mihhail Lotman
doaj   +1 more source

Prosody in the parchment: manuscript evidence for the pertinacity of syllable, foot and word-prosodic structures in the mediaeval German grammar

open access: yes, 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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Generating expressive speech for storytelling applications [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Speech rhythm: a metaphor? [PDF]

open access: yes, 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]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

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