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Lithuanian Syllable: The Hierarchy of Syllable Constituents and Syllable Weight

open access: yesRespectus Philologicus, 2022
The article aims to establish the hierarchy of Lithuanian syllable constituents and determine how syllables should be interpreted in terms of syllable weight. The empirical data based on 311 000 syllables show that the variety of consonants in the onset
Asta Kazlauskienė
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Developmental changes in the weighting of prosodic cues [PDF]

open access: yesDevelopmental Science, 2008
Abstract Previous research has shown that the weighting of, or attention to, acoustic cues at the level of the segment changes over the course of development ( Nittrouer & Miller, 1997 ; Nittrouer, Manning & Meyer, 1993).
Seidl, A., Cristia, A.
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Acoustics of stress and weight in Central Alaskan Yup’ik

open access: yesLaboratory Phonology, 2023
In Central Alaskan Yup’ik, syllables with long vowels are always stressed, light syllables alternate stress, but only certain closed syllables are stressed.
Anja Arnhold, McKinley Alden
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Acoustic Correlations of Speech Rhythms in Persian Based on Variability of Between-speakers Characteristics [PDF]

open access: yesنشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی, 2020
The durational variability of phonetic intervals is considered as one of the properties of speech rhythm. These intervals include segmental, vowel, consonantal, vocalic, intervocalic, voiced, unvoiced, syllable, and syllable peak intervals.
Nafiseh Taghva   +2 more
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Automatic Assessment of Prosodic Quality in Down Syndrome: Analysis of the Impact of Speaker Heterogeneity

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2019
Prosody is a fundamental speech element responsible for communicative functions such as intonation, accent and phrasing, and prosodic impairments of individuals with intellectual disabilities reduce their communication skills.
Mario Corrales-Astorgano   +5 more
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A Typology of Spreading, Insertion and Deletion or What You Weren’t Told About Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This paper focuses on the description and analysis of the external sandhi phenomenon of raddoppiamento sintattico (hereafter RS) in Italian, sometimes referred to as word-initial gemination, for example: (1) No RS due cani [duùe kaùni] ‘two ...
Absalom, Matthew   +2 more
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Dutch and English toddlers' use of linguistic cues in predicting upcoming turn transitions

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
Adults achieve successful coordination during conversation by using prosodic and lexicosyntactic cues to predict upcoming changes in speakership. We examined the relative weight of these linguistic cues in the prediction of upcoming turn structure by ...
Imme eLammertink   +4 more
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Removing micromelody from fundamental frequency contours [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In this paper we describe a new method to diminish microprosodic components of fundamental frequency contours by applying weight functions linked to microprosodically classified phone combinations.
Reichel, Uwe D., Winkelmann, Raphael
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Weighting of Prosodic and Lexical-Semantic Cues for Emotion Identification in Spectrally Degraded Speech and With Cochlear Implants

open access: yesEar & Hearing, 2021
Objectives: Normally-hearing (NH) listeners rely more on prosodic cues than on lexical-semantic cues for emotion perception in speech. In everyday spoken communication, the ability to decipher conflicting information between prosodic and lexical-semantic cues to emotion can be important: for example, in identifying sarcasm or ...
Margaret E, Richter, Monita, Chatterjee
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Estonian word prosody on the Procrustean bed of morae

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018
The paper analyses existing moraic conceptions of Estonian quantity. Main features of functional, generative and phonetically-instructed moraic accounts of Estonian are considered.
Natalia Kuznetsova
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