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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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L’accentuation québécoise : une approche tonale [PDF]
, 1990 Cet article basé sur une analyse de trois locuteurs cherche à apporter des éléments d’éclaircissement sur les notions d’accent tonal et d’accent dynamique et sur les modalités de réalisation des accents tonals complexes dans le français québécois ...
Cedergren, Henrietta J. +3 more
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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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The effect of pitch span on intonational plateaux [PDF]
, 2006 Previous research has indicated that the H (high) of a nuclear accent may be realized as a flat stretch of contour rather than as a single turning point. Both the duration of this plateau and its alignment within the accented syllable are affected by the
Knight, R.-A., Nolan, F.
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Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2021 This study tests the effects of intonational contours and filtering conditions on listener judgments of ethnicity to arrive at a more comprehensive understanding on how prosody influences these judgments, with implications for austomatic speech ...
Nicole R. Holliday
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The more the better? Effects of L1 tonal density and typology on the perception of non-native tones.
PLoS ONE, 2023 This study investigates the effects of L1 tonal density and typology on naïve listeners' perception of L2 Cantonese tones and pitch-equivalent pure tones.
Min Zhu +3 more
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Phonetics and phonology of the F0 valley in Persian intonation [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2023 This research aims to improve speech synthesis in Persian and investigate the pitch contour fall between two H* peaks carried out in the framework of the Autosegmental Metrical (AM) theory of intonational phonology.
Maedeh Ejei +2 more
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Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2002 This study investigated the extent to which the Japanese lexical pitch-accent distinction is neutralized in word-final position. Native speakers of Tokyo Japanese produced minimal word pairs differing in final accent status.
Maniwa, Kazumi
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