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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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Comprehension of familiar and unfamiliar native accents under adverse listening conditions [PDF]
, 2009 This study aimed to determine the relative processing cost associated with comprehension of an unfamiliar native accent under adverse listening conditions. Two sentence verification experiments were conducted in which listeners heard sentences at various
Stuart-Smith, J. +3 more
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Perception of Lexical Pitch Accents by Serbian and French Speakers
, 2023 The study explored the perception of the Serbian lexical pitch accent by Serbian (native) and French (non-native) listeners. The motivation for the study came from the previous research on the processing of word-level prosodic categories in perception ...
Nikolic, Dusan
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2007 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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Pre-Low Raising in Japanese Pitch Accent [PDF]
Phonetica, 2017 AbstractJapanese has been observed to have 2 versions of the H tone, the higher of which is associated with an accented mora. However, the distinction of these 2 versions only surfaces in context but not in isolation, leading to a long-standing debate over whether there is 1 H tone or 2.
Albert Lee +2 more
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Centrinės šiaurės žemaičių tarmės prozodija sociolingvistiniu aspektu
Baltistica, 2011 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
Laboratory Phonology, 2020 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
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2022 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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Languages, 2022 Research on L1 to L2 transfer has mainly focused on segments, while less work has examined transfer in intonation patterns. Particularly, little research has investigated transfer patterns when the L1 has a lexical pitch contrast, such as tone or lexical
Niamh Kelly
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Phonetic and phonological imitation of intonation in two varieties of Italian
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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