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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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Expanding the gestural model of lexical tone: Evidence from two dialects of Serbian
Laboratory Phonology, 2022 There is mounting evidence suggesting that temporal information is necessary in representations of lexical tone. Gestural models of tone provide a natural entry point to linking abstract association with physical realization, but remain underdeveloped ...
Robin Karlin
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How focus particles and accents affect attachment
Glossa, 2021 This project shows that focus and information structure, as indicated by the focus particle “only” and pitch accents, influence syntactic attachment, in contrast to the well-known effects of prosodic boundaries on attachment.
David Potter, Katy Carlson
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Peak Delay in Persian Intonational Phonology: Phonetic or Phonological? [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2019 There are two competing views with respect to the tonal structure of Persian pitch accents. According to the first view, peak delay in Persian intonational grammar serves no phonological or contrastive function.
Vahid Sadeghi
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Discourse transcription rules for descriptive and documentary studies [PDF]
Rhema. Рема, 2021 Whereas the principles of morphological analysis and glossing are sufficiently standardized in modern linguistics, there are no generally accepted rules for organizing discourse transcript as such.
A.A. Kibrik, T.A. Maisak
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Rising Accents in Castilian Spanish: A Revision of Sp_ToBI
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2007 This paper employs Castilian Spanish data to examine the issue of rising pitch accents and their phonological analysis. The preliminary Sp_ToBI annotation conventions are shown to be inadequate for representing the Castilian Spanish data, and therefore a
Pilar Prieto, Timothy L. Face
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The intonation of Spanish spoken in Bucaramanga (Colombia)
Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2023 This paper presents the characteristics of the intonation of Spanish spoken in Bucaramanga, Colombia, a variety considered as “strong and rude”. Spontaneous, semi-spontaneous and read utterances from four participants were analysed acoustically.
Yeimy J. Roberto
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Prosodische Markierung von Emotionen im Sport. Eine Fallstudie [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2020 This study aimed at describing the prosodic features as indicators of marking emotional tone in sports commentary (based on a case study). Selected acoustic parameters of emotional speech were examined (fundamental frequency (F0), intensity and duration ...
Marta Rogozińska
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Individual variability in the use of tonal and non-tonal cues in intonationa) [PDF]
JASA Express LettersGreek uses H*, L + H*, and H* + L, all followed by L-L% edge tones, as nuclear pitch accents in statements. A previous analysis demonstrated that these accents are distinguished by F0 scaling and contour shape.
Na Hu, Amalia Arvaniti
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Hierarchical distinctions in the production and perception of nuclear tunes in American English
Laboratory Phonology, 2023 In Autosegmental-Metrical models of intonational phonology, different types of pitch accents, phrase accents, and boundary tones concatenate to create a set of phonologically distinct phrase-final nuclear tunes.
Jennifer Cole +3 more
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