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THE ROLE OF SUPRASEGMENTAL FEATURES IN PHONETICS
This article explores the crucial role of suprasegmental features in spoken language. It defines key suprasegmental elements such as stress, intonation, rhythm, and pitch, emphasizing their functions in clarifying meaning, expressing emotions, structuring information, and facilitating crosslinguistic communication. The article highlights the importance
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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 845-879, September 2026.Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
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Prosodic Transcription of Standard Chinese and its Use in Teaching
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2016 The present paper’s main aim is to introduce a method of prosodic transcription (PTR) of Standard Chinese established by Oldřich Švarný in the background of the Czech Republic.
Zuzana POSPĚCHOVÁ
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Playing with the suprasegmental features of speech, musicality and movement [PDF]
Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 2016 Background: Our spoken language is inevitably linked to music. This can be seen in the suprasegmental features of the speech because prosody is defined as changes in voice and rhythm of speech. Therefore, it is possible to establish a clear analogy between speech and musicality.Objective: This workshop aims to explore the different possibilities of the
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The Role of Phonological and Rhythmic Skills in Learning to Write Words in Spanish
Journal of Research in Reading, Volume 49, Issue 3, August 2026.ABSTRACT Background Both phonological and stress awareness have been related to the development of literacy. Moreover, according to Goswami's temporal sampling theory, another prosodic factor, rhythmic synchronization skill, also favours reading acquisition.
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A Modest Proposal for a Synergistic View of Reading
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, July/August/September 2026.A graphic representation of the “Synergistic View of Literacy” development. ABSTRACT This think‐piece presents a synergistic view of literacy development. It argues that literacy learning and teaching best occur through interactive processes in which the various components, from phonological awareness to comprehension, support and strengthen one ...
Melanie R. Kuhn +1 more
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Phonostylistic Features of Discussion as a Type of Informational Style of Intonation in English
Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, 2014 The article looks into suprasegmental features of discussion as a type of the informational style of intonation in English. Phonostylistic approach on the suprasegmental level presupposes examination of different intonation styles including the ...
Maija Brēde
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Anti-hiatus tendencies in Spanish: rate of occurrence and phonetic identification
LinguisticsSpanish normative grammar considers any two-vowel combination of /e/, /a/, and /o/ as a hiatus, accepting that they can be pronounced as a diphthong in lower basilects and/or informal registers.
Herrero de Haro Alfredo +1 more
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Beyond prosody: Foreign accent syndrome in a Spanish-speaking patient. Case report
Case Reports, 2019 Introduction: Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a rare speech disorder. It is becoming increasingly common to find reports of cases about alterations different from the suprasegmental aspects of speech, although these reports are not frequent in Spanish ...
Kelly Estrada-Orozco +5 more
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Oriental Studies, 2020 Syntactic molecule (SM) is the minimum functional and syntactically autonomous unit able to serve as an answer to the question. Goals. The paper formulates the principles of identification of the SM. Results. The main features of grammatical tagging in
Sergej A. Krylov
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