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Frontiers in Communication, 2022 Both facial expressions like eyebrow movements and prosodic characteristics like pitch height and the position of the pitch accent relative to the prominent syllable play an important role in prominence marking, which in turn is used by YouTubers and ...
Stephanie Berger, Margaret Zellers
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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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Detecting pitch accent using pitch-corrected energy-based predictors [PDF]
Interspeech 2007, 2007 Previous work has shown that the energy components of frequency subbands with a variety of frequencies and bandwidths predict pitch accent with various degrees of accuracy, and produce correct predictions for distinct subsets of data points. In this paper, we describe a series of experiments exploring techniques to leverage the predictive power of ...
Hirschberg, Julia Bell +1 more
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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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Pre-Low Raising in Japanese Pitch Accent [PDF]
Phonetica, 2017 AbstractJapanese has been observed to have 2 versions of the H tone, the higher of which is associated with an accented mora. However, the distinction of these 2 versions only surfaces in context but not in isolation, leading to a long-standing debate over whether there is 1 H tone or 2.
Santitham, P, Lee, KLA, Xu, Y
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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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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
, 2015 This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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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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