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Intonational phonology of Boro [PDF]
Glossa, 2019 The pitch contour of an utterance in a tone language can surface with both tonal and intonational f0 features. In this paper we set out to analyze the intonational phonology of Boro, a tone language, and establish that there are three levels of prosodic ...
Shakuntala Mahanta
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Intonational phonology and prosodic hierarchy in malay [PDF]
Interspeech 2014, 2014 This paper presents original data in support of a new model of intonational phonology for Malay as spoken in Singapore. Building on the Autosegmental-Metrical approach (Beckman & Pierrehumbert, 1986), we propose that intonational variation in Malay can be explained in terms of underlying sequences of abstract tonal units (H and L), which are aligned to
James Sneed German
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Peak Delay in Persian Intonational Phonology: Phonetic or Phonological? [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2019 There are two competing views with respect to the tonal structure of Persian pitch accents. According to the first view, peak delay in Persian intonational grammar serves no phonological or contrastive function.
Vahid Sadeghi
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(Dys)Prosody in Parkinson’s Disease: Effects of Medication and Disease Duration on Intonation and Prosodic Phrasing [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2021 The phonology of prosody has received little attention in studies of motor speech disorders. The present study investigates the phonology of intonation (nuclear contours) and speech chunking (prosodic phrasing) in Parkinson’s disease (PD) as a function ...
Sónia Frota +6 more
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Internal structure of intonational categories: The (dis)appearance of a perceptual magnet effect [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The question of whether intonation events are speech categories like phonemes and lexical tones has long been a puzzle in prosodic research. In past work, researchers have studied categoricality of pitch accents and boundary tones by examining perceptual
Joe Rodd, Aoju Chen
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How experience with tone in the native language affects the L2 acquisition of pitch accents [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This paper tested the ability of Mandarin learners of German, whose native language has lexical tone, to imitate pitch accent contrasts in German, an intonation language.
Katharina Zahner-Ritter +3 more
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An apparent-time study of an ongoing sound change in Seoul Korean: A prosodic account. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 In present-day Seoul Korean, the primary phonetic feature for the lenis-aspirated stop distinction is shifting from VOT to F0. Some previous studies have considered this sound change to be a tonogenesis, whereby the low-level F0 perturbation has ...
Jiyoun Choi, Sahyang Kim, Taehong Cho
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L2 Acquisition of a Complex Stress Pattern: UG-Constrained Learning Paths in Khalkha Mongolian [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This paper examines second language (L2) acquisition of stress in Khalkha Mongolian, which is one of the few Default-to-Opposite Edge stress systems of the world, and as such, demonstrates “conflicting directionality” regarding stress assignment ...
Öner Özçelik
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Phonology and intonation [PDF]
, 2008 The encoding standards for phonology and intonation are designed to facilitate consistent annotation of the phonological and intonational aspects of information structure, in languages across a range of prosodic types. The guidelines are designed with the aim that a nonspecialist in phonology can both implement and interpret the resulting annotation.
Féry, Caroline (Prof. Dr.) +3 more
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Bengali intonational phonology [PDF]
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1991 This paper proposes a phonological analysis of the Bengali intonational system, using a descriptive framework developed by Pierrehumbert (1980) and others. Our analysis bears on a number of theoretical points. We argue that the Bengali facts support a typology of intonational tones that includes only pitch accents and boundary tones, and that the ...
Hayes, B, Lahiri, A
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