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Functional modeling of F0 variation across speakers and between phonological categories:Rising pitch accents in American English [PDF]

The Autosegmental-Metrical model of American English distinguishes three pitch accents with rising F0 trajectories (H*, L+H*, L*+H), differing in peak alignment and presence vs. absence of a low pitch marking the rise onset.
Steffman, Jeremy; id_orcid, Cole, Jennifer, Awwad, Aya   +2 more
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A Comparative Analysis of Declarative Sentences in the Spontaneous Speech of Two Puerto Rican Communities

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This paper applies the Autosegmental Metrical (AM) model of intonation phonology and the Spanish Tones and Break Indices (Sp_ToBI) annotation conventions to compare the intonational contours of declarative sentences in two varieties of Puerto Rican ...
Piero Visconte, Sandro Sessarego, Rajiv Rao   +2 more
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Issues of optionality in pitch accent placement.

, 2007
When comparing the prosodic realization of different English speakers reading the same text, a significant disagreement is usually found amongst the pitch accent patterns of the speakers. Assuming that such disagreement is due to a partial optionality of pitch accent placement, it has been recently proposed to evaluate pitch accent predictors by ...
Badino, Leonardo, Clark, Robert A.J.
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Characteristics of pre-nuclear pitch accents in statements and yes-no questions in Greek.

, 2015
In this paper I present the results of a production experiment testing the hypothesis that L*+H pre-nuclear pitch accents are indistinguishable in statements and ques-tions in Greek.
Mary Baltazani
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Multimodal training on L2 Japanese pitch accent: learning outcomes, neural correlates and subjective assessments

Language and Cognition
Japanese pitch accent is phonemic, making it crucial for second-language learners to acquire. Building on theories of multimodal learning, the present study explored how auditory, visual and gestural training of Japanese pitch accent affected behavioral,
Yukari Hirata, Erica Friedman, Caroline Kaicher, Spencer D. Kelly   +3 more
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Sounding Appalachian: /ai/ Monophthongization, Rising Pitch Accents, and Rootedness

, 2016
Appalachia, the mountainous region that stretches from northern Georgia to Pennsylvania (ARC, 2015), is a region that has been considered culturally and linguistically unique in the United States.
Reed, Paul E.
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When pitch accents encode speaker commitment: evidence from French intonation

, 2015
International audienceRecent studies on a variety of languages have shown that a speaker's commitment to the propositional content of his or her utterance can be encoded, among other strategies, by pitch accent types.
Michelas, Amandine, Portes, Cristel, Champagne-Lavau, Maud   +2 more
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Bringing Sociolectal Variation to the Extremes: Investigating the role of gradience in perceptual judgments of sexuality from pitch accents

, 2023
The effects of belonging to certain dialectal and sociolectal groups on human speech has been the topic of much research since the conception of the field of linguistics.
White, Reis
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The perception and production of stress and intonation by children with cochlear implants

, 2010
Users of current cochlear implants have limited access to pitch information and hence to intonation in speech. This seems likely to have an important impact on prosodic perception.
O'Halpin, R.
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Phonology or non phonology? That is the question (in intonation)

Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2008
The paper would like to challenge the basic tenet of Autosegmental Theory of Intonation, i.e. that in non-tonal languages it is possible to deal with intonation in phonological terms.
Giovanna Marotta
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