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The Relative Weight of Statistical and Prosodic Cues in Speech Segmentation: A Matter of Language-(In)dependency and of Signal Quality [PDF]

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2011
In an artificial language setting, we investigated the relative weight of statistical cues (transitional probabilities, TPs) in comparison to two prosodic cues, Intonational Phrases (IPs, a language-independent cue) and lexical stress (a language ...
Paulo Ventura, Régine Kolinsky, Tânia Fernandes   +2 more
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Hearing Tones, Missing Boundaries: Cross-Level Selective Transfer of Prosodic Boundaries Among Chinese–English Learners [PDF]

Behavioral Sciences
Second language (L2) learners often struggle to process prosodic boundaries, which are essential for speech comprehension. This study investigated the nature of these difficulties and how first language (L1) cue-weighting strategies transfer to L2 ...
Lan Fang, Zilong Li, Keke Yu, John W. Schwieter, Ruiming Wang   +4 more
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Newborns’ attention to socio-emotional prosodic cues from voices [PDF]

iScience
Summary: Voices are among the most salient stimuli for social interactions. From birth, we can process both linguistic and socio-emotional aspects of voices, but it is not clear how these cues contribute to voice processing.
Valentina Silvestri, Silvia Polver, Maria Lorella Giannì, Angelo Petrelli, Matteo Santini, Lorenzo Colombo, Hermann Bulf   +6 more
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The functional weight of a prosodic cue in the native language predicts the learning of speech segmentation in a second language [PDF]

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2017
This study newly investigates whether the functional weight of a prosodic cue in the native language predicts listeners’ learning and use of that cue in second-language speech segmentation. It compares English and Dutch listeners’ use of fundamental-frequency (F0) rise as a cue to word-final boundaries in French. F0 rise signals word-initial boundaries
Annie Tremblay, Mirjam Broersma, Caitlin E. Coughlin   +2 more
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Attentional influences on cue weighting in vowel perception: Examining prosodic prominence and informational masking. [PDF]

Atten Percept Psychophys
Abstract Beyond sources of listener-external variability such as variation in talker and acoustic context, listener-internal variation also plays a role in speech perception and cue weighting. The present study examines the effects of prosodic prominence, signaled by F0, and multi-talker babble noise as methods of
Zhang W, Steffman J.
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The relative perceptual weight of two Swedish prosodic contrasts

, 2015
Abstract. In addition to 9 vowel and 18 consonant phonemes, Swedish has three prosodic phonemic contrasts: word stress, quantity and tonal word accent. There are also examples of distinctive phrase or sentence stress, where a verb can be followed by either an unstressed preposition or a stressed particle.
Åsa Abelin, Bosse Thorén
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On the weight of phrase-final prosodic words in a sign language

Sign Language & Linguistics, 2012
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Onno Crasborn, Els van der Kooij, Johan Ros   +2 more
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Position-specific Coda Weight and Prosodic Subcategorization of Affixes in English Verb Stress

Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics, 2013
김종실
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Myanmar’s Prosodic Weight and Structure: Metrical Phonology Insights

The International Journal of Communication and Linguistic Studies
Tanintorn Limpisiri, Sarawut Kraisame
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Kevin M. Ryan (2019). Prosodic weight: categories and continua. (Oxford Studies in Phonology and Phonetics.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xvii + 288.

Phonology, 2020
Claire Moore-Cantwell
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