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Prosody by phase : evidence from focus intonation–Wh-scope correspondence in Japanese [PDF]
, 2004 Japanese wh-questions always exhibit focus intonation (FI). Furthermore, the domain of FI exhibits a correspondence to the wh-scope. I propose that this phonology-semantics correspondence is a result of the cyclic computation of FI, which is explained ...
Ishihara, Shinichiro
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping language learning environments, yet little is known about how it becomes embedded within learners' motivational and agentive experiences in collaborative, informal settings like English drama‐based learning.
Meng Xiong, Timothy Teo
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Some Bibliographical References on Intonation and Intonational Meaning
CoRR, 1994 A by-no-means-complete collection of references for those interested in intonational meaning, with other miscellaneous references on intonation included. Additional references are welcome, and should be sent to julia@research.att.com.
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A Preliminary Study of Written Intonation [PDF]
, 2017 Authors, poets, journalists, academics and even private individuals are often at pains to ensure their readers make the judgement about focus and ‘tone of voice’ that their chosen words are intended to convey.
Ashby, P.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists have long shown that asking for food in times of need is morally valued in rural Namibia. Yet among the Damara pastoralists with whom I work, people now increasingly describe feeling shame (taob) when they ask for food. In this article, I trace this shift to the affective dynamics of social class formation.
Michael Schnegg
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Influence of Voice Intonation on Understanding Irony by Polish-Speaking Preschool Children
Psychology of Language and Communication, 2016 The main aim of the presented study was to investigate the influence of voice intonation on the comprehension of ironic utterances in 4- to 6-year-old Polish-speaking children. 83 preschool children were tested with the Irony Comprehension Task (Banasik &
Zajączkowska Maria Katarzyna
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Wavelets for intonation modeling in HMM speech synthesis [PDF]
, 2013 The pitch contour in speech contains information about different linguistic units at several distinct temporal scales. At the finest level, the microprosodic cues are purely segmental in nature, whereas in the coarser time scales, lexical tones, word ...
Suni, Antti Santeri +5 more
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Intonation of angry and happy Singapore English acted speech
, 2023 Intonation conveys multiple levels of linguistic meaning and emotional cues. While there have been studies characterising the prosody of emotional speech, it is not known whether these findings, which are primarily observed from Western participants, are
Koh, Rae Jia Xin, Tan, Ying Ying
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There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
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Early Perception of Intonation in Down Syndrome: Implications for Language Intervention
European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and EducationLanguage difficulties have been highlighted as a cornerstone of the developmental profile in Down Syndrome (DS), but very few studies have examined early language abilities in children with DS to determine the initial strengths and weaknesses that might ...
Cátia Severino +2 more
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