Hearing Tones, Missing Boundaries: Cross-Level Selective Transfer of Prosodic Boundaries Among Chinese–English Learners [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesSecond 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 +4 more
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Newborns’ attention to socio-emotional prosodic cues from voices [PDF]
iScienceSummary: 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 +6 more
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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 +2 more
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Cue-weighting in processing of prosodic boundaries in Dutch: An event-related potential (ERP) study. [PDF]
Psychon Bull RevAbstract Across languages, major prosodic boundaries, such as intonational phrase (henceforth, IP) boundaries, are typically signalled via three types of prosodic cues, namely pitch change, final lengthening, and pause.
Geutjes J +4 more
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On the weight of phrase-final prosodic words in a sign language
Sign Language and Linguistics (Online), 2012 This article seeks to explore a prosodic explanation for the frequent occurrence of pointing signs phrase-finally. Corpus data from Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) show that indeed pointing signs occur highly frequently at the end of sentences, and an elicitation study shows that pointing signs, other light lexical elements, and phonetic ...
Onno Crasborn, Els van der Kooij
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Newborns' brains Detect Foreign Rhythm in Native-language Speech. [PDF]
Dev SciABSTRACT Humans begin tuning in to the prosody of their native language even before birth. Previous studies with newborns have reported language‐specific processing of forward versus backward speech and of intonational contours, as well as sensitivity to iambic versus trochaic patterns in non‐linguistic tone stimuli.
Dvořáková M +4 more
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Attentional influences on cue weighting in vowel perception: Examining prosodic prominence and informational masking. [PDF]
Atten Percept PsychophysAbstract 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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Weight Pattern of Tri-syllabic Words in Persian: Moraic Theory [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2022 This paper examines weight patterns in tri-syllabic words within a Moraic-theoretic account. A word weight pattern is weight of syllables and is defined based on distinction between heavy and light syllables (Carr, 2008:172); Here, the notion of mora ...
Hakimeh Fanoodi +2 more
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Investigating the Reason for the Distinction between Skaz and the Magic of Proximity in Two Sonnets by Fazel Nazari [PDF]
Literary Arts, 2022 Formalism is a school that looks at literary works regardless of possible historical, social, and political influences. Skaz is the tone of the narrator of a poem or story.
Ziba Ghalavandi +1 more
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Foregrounding in the poems of Mohammad Saeed Al-Haboubi based on Jeffreylich's theory [PDF]
نقد ادب معاصر عربی, 2021 Introduction: Seyed Mohammad Saeed Al-Haboubi is one of the contemporary poets who was born in Najaf in 1266 AH and died in 1333 AH. Al-Habubi's poetic themes were a description of nature and the sincere praise of religious friends and elders. His poetic
Hossain Gorji +3 more
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