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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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Notions and subnotions in information structure [PDF]

, 2008
Three dimensions can be distinguished in a cross-linguistic account of information structure. First, there is the definition of the focus constituent, the part of the linguistic expression which is subject to some focus meaning.
Bolinger D., Carlos Gussenhoven, Cotter C., Dik S. C., Elordieta G., Elordieta G., Frota S., Féry C., Gussenhoven C., Gussenhoven C., Gussenhoven C., Gussenhoven C., Hanssen J., Heuven V. J., Kanerva J., Kiss, Kubozono H., Kuno S., Kügler F., Ladd D. R., Ladd R., Müller-Gotama F., Pierrehumbert J., Rialland A., Robert S., Robert S., Rudin C., Russell B., Schmerling S. F., Sugahara M.   +29 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 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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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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Data-driven Extraction of Intonation Contour Classes [PDF]

, 2007
In this paper we introduce the first steps towards a new datadriven method for extraction of intonation events that does not require any prerequisite prosodic labelling.
Reichel, Uwe D.
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Acoustic Analysis of the Speakers’ Variability for Regional Accent-Affected Pronunciation in Bangladeshi Bangla: A Study on Sylheti Accent

IEEE Access, 2020
Accented pronunciation variability is one of the key elements that deteriorate the accuracy of the automatic speech recognition (ASR). This article reports the results of the acoustic analysis of the two groups of speakers' variability caused by regional
Shafkat Kibria, M. Shahidur Rahman, M. Reza Selim, M. Zafar Iqbal   +3 more
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Exploring Pitch Accent as an Element of Fluency in L2 English Academic Presentations – a Proficiency-based Sampling Report

Research in Language, 2023
The study explores the effectiveness of raising prosodic awareness in teaching academic presentations to a mixed proficiency group of adult Polish students majoring in English from the perspective of prosody as well as utterance fluency measures.
Agata Klimczak-Pawlak, Ewa Waniek-Klimczak   +1 more
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