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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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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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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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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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Languages, 2022 The objective of the study is to contribute to our understanding of the acquisition of second language intonation by comparing L2 Italian and L2 Spanish as produced by L1 Czech learners.
Andrea Pešková
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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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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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The incremental processing of focus, givenness and prosodic prominence
Glossa, 2020 This study on German investigates the real-time comprehension of items in First Occurrence Focus (focused and new), Second Occurrence Focus (focused and given), Quasi Second Occurrence Focus (derogatory expressions that are referentially given and ...
Petra B. Schumacher, Stefan Baumann
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The Spanish intonation of speakers of a Basque pitch-accent dialect
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2003 In this paper the main aspects of the intonation of broad focus declaratives in Lekeitio Spanish are described and analyzed. In this variety, accents are realized as pitch rises rather than falls, similarly to Standard Peninsular Spanish and unlike in ...
Gorka Elordieta
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Perception of standard Croatian pitch accents by speakers from pitch accent and from stress accent regiolects [PDF]
, 2023 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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