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Tonal association in neutral and subject-narrow-focus sentences in Brazilian Portuguese: a comparison with European Portuguese

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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Change across Time in L2 Intonation vs. Segments: A Longitudinal Study of the English of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

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, Nikolaus Himmelmann, Sonja Riesberg, Stefan Baumann   +3 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, Mariapaola eD'Imperio, Rossana eCavone, Caterina ePetrone   +3 more
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Intonation Patterns Used in Non-Neutral Statements by Czech Learners of Italian and Spanish: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison

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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Pitch accents in Standard Lithuanian: Dependence of their phonetic cues on word stress and phrase intonation

Kalbotyra
This study investigates the phonetic realization of pitch accents, namely, acute and circumflex, in Standard Lithuanian, focusing on their dynamic F0 profiles and interaction with other prosodic elements.
Evaldas Švageris, Gintautas Tamulevičius   +1 more
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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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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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Three questions regarding the prosodic system of the Lithuanian language

Lietuvių Kalba, 2017
This article addresses more questions than suggested by its title (those mentioned in the title are the most relevant and common ones) and provides very few answers. However, the key aim of this article is exactly that – to shed some light to the aspects
Vytautas Kardelis
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Perception of the acoustic properties of Serbian lexical pitch accents

Estudios de Fonética Experimental
In this study, we explored to what extent native speakers of Serbian are perceptually sensitive to the acoustic properties of Serbian lexical pitch accents—namely pitch and length—and how accurately they distinguish between different lexical pitch ...
Dušan Nikolić
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