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The modelling of prenuclear accents in Central Catalan declaratives

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2003
The aim of this paper is to examine the phonetic and phonological properties of prenuclear accents in Central Catalan declaratives within the Autosegmental-Metrical approach of intonational analysis.
Eva Estebas-Vilaplana
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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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Compound stress in educated Igbo and Yoruba accents of Nigerian English

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023
This study examines compound stress in Igbo and Yoruba accents of Nigerian English and juxtaposes their patterns with Standard British English (SBE). Speech recorded from 60 educated Igbo and Yoruba speakers of Nigerian English and three Britons served ...
Omotosho Moses Melefa, Oluwasegun Matthew Amoniyan   +1 more
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The intonation of Standard and Northern European Portuguese: A comparative intonational phonology approach

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2003
It has been generally thought that Northern varieties of European Portuguese (EP) are more conservative than Standard (Lisbon) EP, and show some similarity with Spanish.
Marina Vigario, Sónia Frota
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The Tritonal Pitch Accent in the Broad Focus Declaratives of the Spanish Spoken in Cuenca, Ecuador: An Acoustic and Sociolinguistic Analysis

Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2021
This paper presents an acoustic and sociolinguistic analysis of the Andean variety of Spanish spoken in Cuenca, Ecuador, a variety reputed for its “sing-song” intonation.
Brenda Froemming, Rajiv Rao
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Dutch listeners’ responses to Dutch, British and American English accents in three contexts.

Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
The aim of this study was to assess Dutch listeners’ responses to native-accented Englishes compared with Dutch-accented English in terms of speech understandability and speech evaluations in three professional communication contexts. In a matched-guise
Warda Nejjari, Marinel Gerritsen, Roeland van Hout, Brigitte Planken   +3 more
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Pitch accents create dissociable syntactic and semantic expectations during sentence processing [PDF]

, 2021
The language system uses syntactic, semantic, as well as prosodic cues to efficiently guide auditory sentence comprehension. Prosodic cues, such as pitch accents, can build expectations about upcoming sentence elements.
Friederici, A., Hartwigsen, G. ; https://orcid.org/, Hartwigsen, G., van der Burght, C., Friederici, A. ; https://orcid.org/, Goucha, T.   +5 more
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Intonational Focus Marking by Syrian Arabic Learners of German: On the Role of Cross-Linguistic Influence and Proficiency

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Acquiring prosodic focus marking in a second language (L2) is difficult for learners whose native language utilizes strategies that differ from those of the target language.
Zarah Kampschulte, Angelika Braun, Katharina Zahner-Ritter   +2 more
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Focus projection need not be based on pitch accents: evidence from Georgian

Glossa, 2021
Based on experimental evidence, this paper shows that the prosodic realization of focus in Georgian is consistent with focus projection/percolation – the phenomenon by which prosodic prominence on a sub-constituent signals focus on a larger constituent –
Lena Borise
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The effect of pitch accenting on pronoun referent resolution [PDF]

Proceedings of the 33rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1995
3 pages, uses aclap.sty.
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