Prosodische Markierung von Emotionen im Sport. Eine Fallstudie [PDF]
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]
Greek 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
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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This paper presents a comparative description and analysis of the intonational contours of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) sentences in neutral and subject-narrow-focus conditions.
Flaviane Romani Fernandes
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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
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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In search of cues discriminating West-african accents in French [PDF]
International audienceThis study investigates to what extent West-African French accents can be distinguished, based on recordings made in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal.
Boula De Mareüil, Philippe +2 more
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Perception of standard Croatian pitch accents by speakers from pitch accent and from stress accent regiolects [PDF]
Previous acoustic studies have found that Croatian speakers use either standard four pitch-accent system (PA) or a stress accent (SA). The focus of the present study is on perception of four pitch accents: we tested how fast and how accurately the Croatian listeners from pitch and from stress system can perceive the words with correct and incorrect ...
Vlašić Duić, Jelena +1 more
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Centrinės šiaurės žemaičių tarmės prozodija sociolingvistiniu aspektu
THE PROSODY OF THE CENTRAL NORTHERN ŽEMAITIAN (LOW LITHUANIAN) DIALECT FROM THE STANDPOINT OF SOCIOLINGUISTICSSummaryThe general acoustic image of the accent patterns of the dialect shows that the decisive distinctive feature of the acute and circumflex ...
Irena Ieva Mažiulienė
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Using Rapid Prosody Transcription to probe little-known prosodic systems: The case of Papuan Malay
This paper shows how the Rapid Prosody Transcription method (RPT, cp. Cole & Shattuck-Hufnagel, 2016) can be utilized when investigating the prosodic systems of a little-described language.
Janina Kalbertodt +3 more
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Autosegmental-metrical phonology – Unpacking the boxes
Autosegmental-metrical phonology has shown itself to be a highly successful framework for the description, analysis and comparison of the prosody of many of the world’s languages.
Grice Martine
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