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The role of Weight-by-Position in the prosodic development of Spanish and German
Conxita Lleó, Javier Vilanova Arias
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Segmental quantity and prosodic weight
AbstractSwedish has mandatory stress to weight, i.e. a requirement on stressed syllables to be heavy. This is a difference with respect to English. This prosodic constraint is met by segmentals in two basic ways, by placing two moras on a vowel, or by placing one on the vowel and onte on the following consonant.
Tomas Riad
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The Relative Weights of the Different Prosodic Dimensions in Expressive Speech: A Resynthesis Study
The emotional prosody is multi-dimensional. A debated question is to understand if some parameters are more specialized to convey some emotion dimensions. Selected stimuli, expressing anxiety, disappointment, disgust, disquiet, joy, resignation, satisfaction and sadness, were extracted from the acted part of a French corpus supposed to include only ...
Nicolas Audibert +2 more
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Prosodic Weight Effect on Focal Accent of Standard Chinese
This study investigates the phonetic performance of narrow information focus, as compared to broad focus, within different sentential positions of the Chinese Subject-Verb-Object (S+V+O) syntax structure. Three acoustic parameters of focus, including the pitch range ratio, duration ratio, and intensity ratio, were taken to explore the ranking among ...
Jia Guo, Yang Lei, Yanting Sun
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Prosodic weight, word order, and the structure of the Latin clause
My aim is to investigate the influence of prosodic weight on constituent order in Latin. In the wake of Behaghel (1932), in the philological literature it is often claimed that heavy objects are more likely to surface postverbally than lighter ones, as an effect of a broader tendency for heavy material to gravitate towards the right edge of the clause.
Lieven Danckaert
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K. M. Ryan. (2019). Prosodic weight: Categories and continua
Jia Guo, Sihan Cui, Siyi Jia
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Estimating prosodic weights in a syntactic-rhythmical prediction system
Philippe Langlais
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Incorporating prosodic prominence evidence into term weights for spoken content retrieval
David Nicolas Racca, Gareth J. F. Jones
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