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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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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, Naoto Yamane, Reiko Mazuka, Reiko Mazuka   +3 more
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N400 amplitude, latency, and variability reflect temporal integration of beat gesture and pitch accent during language processing [PDF]

Brain Research, 2020
Laura M Morett, Nicole Landi, Julia Irwin   +2 more
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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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Exploring Pitch Accent as an Element of Fluency in L2 English Academic Presentations – a Proficiency-based Sampling Report

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, Ewa Waniek-Klimczak   +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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The role of prosodic focus in the reanalysis of garden path sentences: Depth of semantic processing impedes the revision of an erroneous local analysis

Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2022
Research on post-repair representations of garden path sentences has found that readers systematically arrive at misinterpretations even after displaying evidence of reanalysis (Christianson et al., 2001; Ferreira et al., 2001).
June Choe, Masaya Yoshida, Jennifer Cole
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Multimodal Prominence Marking in Semi-Spontaneous YouTube Monologs: The Interaction of Intonation and Eyebrow Movements

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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