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Preceding syllables are necessary for the accent advantage effect [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2020 The accent advantage effect in phoneme monitoring—faster responses to a target phoneme at the beginning of an L + H*-accented word than to a target phoneme at the beginning of an unaccented word—is viewed as a product of listeners' predictive capabilities [Cutler (1976). Percept. Psychophys. 20(1), 55–60]. However, previous studies have not established
Amanda, Rysling +3 more
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Phonetics and phonology of the F0 valley in Persian intonation [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2023 This research aims to improve speech synthesis in Persian and investigate the pitch contour fall between two H* peaks carried out in the framework of the Autosegmental Metrical (AM) theory of intonational phonology.
Maedeh Ejei +2 more
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Three Kinds of Rising-Falling Contours in German wh-Questions: Evidence From Form and Function
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 The intonational realization of utterances is generally characterized by regional as well as inter- and intra-speaker variability in f0. Category boundaries thus remain “fuzzy” and it is non-trivial how the (continuous) acoustic space maps onto (discrete)
Katharina Zahner-Ritter +6 more
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Intonation Pattern of Information Structure (IS) in Kashani Dialect [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2021 This study aimed to investigate the intonation pattern of Kashani utterances with broad, narrow, and contrastive focuses on different syntactic structures, which were obtained by changing the order of verbs, subjects, and objects.
Asma Karimi Moghaddam Arani +1 more
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The System of Variable Stress in Northern Mansi Dialects and Its External Correspondences; pp. 133-146 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2020 In the present article, which continues the cycle of articles dedicated to the description of variable stress in Ob-Ugric languages, we direct our attention to the variable stress in Mansi dialects. The article describes the rules of stress placement for
Julia Normaskaja
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Atitrauktinio kirčio priegaidės šiaurės žemaičių kretingiškių tarmėje
Baltistica, 2011 ON THE RETRACTED SYLLABLE ACCENT IN THE NORTH-ŽEMAITIAN DIALECT OF KRETINGASummaryThere are different opinions about the retracted syllable accent in the Lithuanian dialects. The purpose of this paper is to describe the prosodic features of the retracted
Zofija Babickienė
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Disentangling accent from comprehensibility [PDF]
, 2012 The goal of this study was to determine which linguistic aspects of second language speech are related to accent and which to comprehensibility. To address this goal, 19 different speech measures in the oral productions of 40 native French speakers of ...
Isaacs, Talia, Trofimovich, P
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A destressing "deafness" in French? [PDF]
, 1997 French is a language in which accent is mandatory on the last syllable of every content word. In contrast, Spanish uses accent to distinguish different lexical items (e.g., b'ebe vs beb'e).
Dupoux, E. +3 more
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Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2004 In this article, a thorough criticism of the main issues concerning the Basque accentuation is performed. In point 1, a synchronic description of the different Basque accentual types as described in Michelena (1972) and Hualde (1997) is carried out. Type
Mikel Martínez
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, 2017 Typologically, pitch-accent languages stand between stress languages like Spanish and tone languages like Shona, and share properties of both. In a stress language typically just one syllable per word is accented and bears the major stress (cf.
Ito, Chiyuki, Kenstowicz, Michael
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