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L’amuntegament tonal en castellà, català i friülà en la Teoria de l’Optimitat [PDF]
Sintagma, 2018 Friulian, Catalan and Spanish solve tonal crowding (i.e. a situation where three or more tones are associated with the same segmental element) differently.
Paolo Roseano, Ana M. Fernández Planas
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LanguagesThis study builds on a small body of work, all on Japanese, demonstrating how intonational phonology is critical for understanding prosodic modifications in infant-directed speech (IDS) relative to adult-directed speech.
Kristine M. Yu +2 more
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Arau lexikoen eta lexiko-ostekoen ezberdintasunaz: bokalen asimilazioa Lekeitioko euskaran
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1993 In this paper we explore a phenomenon of vowel assimilation in the Basque dialect spoken in Lekeitio. In fast or relaxed speech, an initial [-round] vowel of a determiner may optionally assimilate in all its features to the final vowel of a nominal stem,
José Ignacio Hualde, Gorka Elordieta
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Surface and Structure: Transcribing Intonation within and across Languages
Laboratory Phonology, 2016 Intonation is the phonologically structured variation in phonetic features, primarily pitch, to express phrase-level meanings. As in other speech sound domains, analyzing intonation involves mapping continuously variable physical parameters to categories.
Sónia Frota
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Phonological markers of sentence stress in ataxic dysarthria and their relationship to perceptual cues [PDF]
, 2014 A wide range of literature is available on the features of ataxic dysarthria, investigating segmental and prosodic characteristics by acoustic and perceptual means.
Lowit, Anja +2 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Foreign languages are often learnt in formal and disembodied environments which may limit the emotional resonance of their vocabulary and their pragmatic usage in real‐life communication. In a context of English as a foreign language (EFL), this study examines whether elaborative processing as a teaching strategy leads to changes in the ...
María Jesús Sánchez +3 more
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht +1 more
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Prosodic focus in Vietnamese [PDF]
, 2007 This paper reports on pilot work on the expression of Information Structure in Vietnamese and argues that Focus in Vietnamese is exclusively expressed prosodically: there are no specific focus markers, and the language uses phonology to express ...
Stefanie Jannedy, Jannedy, Stefanie
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Stigma, self‐styling and ‘forced accents’ among English L2 speakers in Spain
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines the relationship between shame, stigma and accent for non‐native English speakers in Spain. The low English competence of the Spanish population frequently constitutes a source of individual and collective stigma – which includes the apparent undesirability of Spanish‐sounding English.
Eva Codó, Carly Collins
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Essay on intonational phonology and categorization [PDF]
, 2013 textThis dissertation provides experimental evidence for the validity of an intonational phonology. The widely used Autosegmental-Metrical theory con- tends that the phonological structure of intonation can be expressed with two tonal targets (L/H tones ...
Bacuez, Nicholas
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