How experience with tone in the native language affects the L2 acquisition of pitch accents [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This paper tested the ability of Mandarin learners of German, whose native language has lexical tone, to imitate pitch accent contrasts in German, an intonation language.
Katharina Zahner-Ritter +3 more
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Mapping Pitch Accents to Memory Representations in Spoken Discourse Among Chinese Learners of English: Effects of L2 Proficiency and Working Memory [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 We examined L2 learners’ interpretation of pitch accent cues in discourse memory and how these effects vary with proficiency and working memory (WM).
Connie Qun Guan +4 more
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Cortical processing of discrete prosodic patterns in continuous speech [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsProsody has a vital function in speech, structuring a speaker’s intended message for the listener. The superior temporal gyrus (STG) is considered a critical hub for prosody, but the role of earlier auditory regions like Heschl’s gyrus (HG), associated ...
G. Nike Gnanateja +7 more
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Intervallic intonation: Applying the Implication-Realization model of musical melody to speech intonation and prosody. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis methodological study presents the Implication-Realization (IR) model as a framework for the analysis of linguistic prosody and examines its application to English-language examples of speech. Originally developed by Eugene Narmour for music analysis,
Alfred W Cramer
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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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Phonetic and phonological imitation of intonation in two varieties of Italian [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 The aim of this study was to test whether both phonetic and phonological representations of intonation can be rapidly modified when imitating utterances belonging to a different regional variety of the same language.
Mariapaola eD'Imperio +3 more
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L1 Influences on Bulgarian-Accented German: Prosodic Units and Prenuclear Pitch Accents
Languages, 2022 This study investigates the L1 influence on the use of accentual patterns, choice of prenuclear pitch accent types and their realization on L2 prosody. We use Mennen’s LILt model as a framework for our analysis.
Bistra Andreeva, Snezhina Dimitrova
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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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Languages, 2023 This article presents RuPro, a new corpus resource of prosodically annotated speech by Russian heritage speakers in the U.S. and monolingually raised Russian speakers.
Sabine Zerbian +2 more
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Internal structure of intonational categories: The (dis)appearance of a perceptual magnet effect
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The question of whether intonation events are speech categories like phonemes and lexical tones has long been a puzzle in prosodic research. In past work, researchers have studied categoricality of pitch accents and boundary tones by examining perceptual
Joe Rodd, Aoju Chen
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