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WHISTRESS: Enriching Transcriptions with Sentence Stress Detection

arXiv.org
Spoken language conveys meaning not only through words but also through intonation, emotion, and emphasis. Sentence stress, the emphasis placed on specific words within a sentence, is crucial for conveying speaker intent and has been extensively studied ...
Iddo Yosha, Dorin Shteyman, Yossi Adi
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Quantitative perspectives in Cognitive Linguistics

Benjamins Current Topics, 2019
As a usage-based approach to the study language, cognitive linguistics is theoretically well poised to apply quantitative methods to the analysis of corpus and experimental data.
L. Janda
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Linguistics Features of Three British Female Beauty Youtubers

Vivid Journal of Language and Literature, 2019
This article concerns with the characteristics of the language of three British female Youtubers. It is aimed in particular to find out women's linguistic features in their language based on Lakoff's theory (1975) and the functions of each features ...
Rahma Aulia Indra, Rina Marnita, Ayumi Ayumi   +2 more
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The role of the right hemisphere in the production of linguistic stress

Brain and Language, 1988
Recent research has proposed a general prosodic disturbance associated with right hemisphere damage (RHD), one encompassing both affective and linguistic functions. The present study attempted to explore whether the ability to produce linguistic prosody was impaired in this patient population.
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The role of vowel parameters in defining lexical and subsidiary stress in Ukrainian

Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 2018
Recent work suggests that Ukrainian represents a typologically rare bidirectional stress system with internal lapses, i.e. sequences of unstressed syllables in the vicinity of primary stress (Łukaszewicz and Mołczanow 2018a, b).
Beata Łukaszewicz, Janina Mołczanow
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Linguistic experience modifies lexical stress perception

Journal of Child Language, 1983
ABSTRACTSensitivity to differences in lexical stress pattern was examined in 4- and 5-year-old monolingual French-, German- and Swedish-speaking children. For most stimulus discriminations, the 5-year-olds outperformed their 4-year-old comparison groups. For a discrimination involving a trisyllabic distinction not found in French, however, the French 5-
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Stress in A SL: Empirical Evidence and Linguistic I ssues

Language and Speech, 1999
The study of signed languages provides an opportunity to identify those characteristics of language that are universal and to investigate the effect of production modality (signed vs. spoken) on the grammar. Over time, American Sign Language (ASL) has accommodated itself to the production and perception requirements of the manual/visual modality ...
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Tone and Stress in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) Word Prosody

International Journal of American Linguistics, 2015
This paper presents the word-prosodic system of Choguita Rarámuri, a Uto-Aztecan language that displays both stress-accent and tone with complex morphological conditioning.
Gabriela Caballero, Lucien Carroll
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Acoustic correlates of word stress: A cross-linguistic survey

Linguistics Vanguard, 2017
AbstractThe study of the acoustic correlates of word stress has been a fruitful area of phonetic research since the seminal research on American English by Dennis Fry over 50 years ago. This paper presents results of a cross-linguistic survey designed to distill a clearer picture of the relative robustness of different acoustic exponents of what has ...
Matthew Gordon, Timo B. Roettger
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Enclitic-induced stress shift in Catalan

Journal of Linguistics, 2018
In this paper we provide a novel and unified formal analysis of the stress microvariation found in verb–enclitic groupings in Barcelona Catalan, with stress stability, in Formentera Catalan, with stress shift to the penultimate and the last syllable of ...
Francesc Torres-Tamarit, Clàudia Pons-Moll   +1 more
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