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Identification of Minimal Pairs of Japanese Pitch Accent in Noise-Vocoded Speech [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The perception of lexical pitch accent in Japanese was assessed using noise-excited vocoder speech, which contained no fundamental frequency (fo) or its harmonics.
Yukiko Sugiyama
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, 2017 Typologically, pitch-accent languages stand between stress languages like Spanish and tone languages like Shona, and share properties of both. In a stress language typically just one syllable per word is accented and bears the major stress (cf.
Ito, Chiyuki, Kenstowicz, Michael
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The Effects of Lexical Pitch Accent on Infant Word Recognition in Japanese [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Learners of lexical tone languages (e.g., Mandarin) develop sensitivity to tonal contrasts and recognize pitch-matched, but not pitch-mismatched, familiar words by 11 months.
Mitsuhiko Ota +3 more
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Melodic Accent as an Emergent Property of Tonal Motion [PDF]
Empirical Musicology Review, 2011 In a previous continuation tapping study (Ammirante, Thompson, & Russo, in press), each tap triggered a discrete tone in a sequence randomly varying in pitch height and contour.
Paolo Ammirante, William Forde Thompson
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The modelling of prenuclear accents in Central Catalan declaratives [PDF]
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2003 The aim of this paper is to examine the phonetic and phonological properties of prenuclear accents in Central Catalan declaratives within the Autosegmental-Metrical approach of intonational analysis.
Eva Estebas-Vilaplana
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Asymmetrical roles of segment and pitch accent in Japanese spoken word recognition [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2022 This study examines the roles of segment and pitch accent in Japanese spoken word recognition. In a lexical decision task, it replicates the finding of Cutler and Otake [(1999) J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
Hironori Katsuda, Jeremy Steffman
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Formation of the skill of perception of pitch accent at the initial stage of learning the Japanese language [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2022 This paper is devoted to the formation of the skill of perception of Japanese pitch accent. Pitch accent is one of the most challenging aspects of learning Japanese.
Burakova Anna, Permyakova Tuyara
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Perception of noise-vocoded sine-wave speech of Japanese pitch-accent words [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2022 The present study examined whether the identification accuracy of Japanese pitch-accent words increased after the sine-wave speech underwent noise vocoding, which eliminates the quasi-periodicity of the sine-wave speech.
Yasuaki Shinohara
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Research in Language, 2023 The study explores the effectiveness of raising prosodic awareness in teaching academic presentations to a mixed proficiency group of adult Polish students majoring in English from the perspective of prosody as well as utterance fluency measures.
Agata Klimczak-Pawlak +1 more
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Word-Prosodic Typology and the Traps of False Similarity: Japanese and Slovene
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2022 The article briefly describes the historical development of language prosodic typology, introduces the two word-prosodic prototypes proposed by Hyman, and explains the positioning of pitch-accent languages on the lexical level.
Nina Golob
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