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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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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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Accent processing in dementia. [PDF]
, 2012 Accented speech conveys important nonverbal information about the speaker as well as presenting the brain with the problem of decoding a non-canonical auditory signal.
Hailstone, Julia C +11 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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, 2010 Georgakopoulos T, Skopeteas S. Projective vs. interpretational properties of nuclear accents and the phonology of contrastive focus in Greek. Linguistic Review. 2010;27(3):319-346.Nuclear accents have two interesting properties.
Georgakopoulos, Thanasis +4 more
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Perception of the acoustic properties of Serbian lexical pitch accents
Estudios de Fonética ExperimentalIn 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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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 +3 more
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Standard Croatian pitch-accents: fact and fiction [PDF]
, 2019 Standard Croatian is a normatively described high-prestige dialect, which most Croatians in public life attempt to acquire, and which is taught in schools. It has four pitch accents, long/short rising/falling.
Pletikos Olof, Elenmari +1 more
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