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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 How listeners handle prosodic cues of linguistic and paralinguistic origin is a central question for spoken communication. In the present EEG study, we addressed this question by examining neural responses to variations in pitch accent (linguistic) and ...
Hatice Zora, Valéria Csépe
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Intonation Pattern of Information Structure (IS) in Kashani Dialect [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2021 This study aimed to investigate the intonation pattern of Kashani utterances with broad, narrow, and contrastive focuses on different syntactic structures, which were obtained by changing the order of verbs, subjects, and objects.
Asma Karimi Moghaddam Arani +1 more
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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. Spanish sábana ‘sheet,’ sabána ‘plain,’ panamá ‘Panama’).
Ito, Chiyuki, Kenstowicz, Michael
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Standing out in context: Prominence in the production and perception of public speech
Laboratory Phonology, 2023 This study investigates the relationship between signal-based factors and discourse context in the production and perception of prominence, extending prior work on prominence in American English by examining speech from complete TED Talks as examples of ...
Jennifer Cole, Stefan Baumann, Suyeon Im
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Fried Persimmons and Dried Oysters or Why Teaching Pitch Accent Matters: A Practical Guide for Teachers of Japanese as a Foreign Language [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2020 Pitch accent plays an important role in Japanese by contrasting segmental homophones, e.g., [ha.ʃi] LH (=Low+High pitch) ‘bridge’ vs HL ‘chopsticks’, distinguishing verbal conjugations (e.g., [ta.be.ɾɯ] LHL ‘eat’ vs [ta.be.ta] HLL ‘ate’), parsing syntax (
Vance Schaefer, Isabelle Darcy
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How to Tell Beans from Farmers: Cues to the Perception of Pitch Accent in Whispered Norwegian
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 East Norwegian employs pitch accent contours in order to make lexical distinctions. This paper researches listeners' ability to make lexical distinctions in the absence of f0 (ie. whispered speech) as the listener attempts to determine which pitch accent
Hannele Nicholson, Andreas Hilmo Teig
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The grammatical primacy of tone in Cushitic
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2021 The current dimensions in the typology of tone are not insightful for understanding the properties of tone in Cushitic languages. Some Cushitic languages are characterised as “pitch-accent” and these cannot be considered stress languages because the ...
Mous, Maarten
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The importance of pitch in conveying meaning in English [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 Pitch, as a basic property of sounds and an important suprasegmental feature of speech, exerts its effect on many linguistic aspects at different levels.
Yang Yifan
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Some Issues In Japanese Accent
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1992 Previous treatments of Japanese accent have regarded accent as a diacritic feature on the basis of which pitch patterns are predicted by general rules.
Miner, Kenneth L.
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Alternation preferences affect focus marking in German and English differently
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 This study investigates the interplay between alternation preferences and corrective focus marking in the production of German and English speakers. Both languages prefer an alternation of strong and weak, and both use pitch accenting to indicate focus ...
Nadja Schauffler
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