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Fundamental frequency and perceived prominence of accented syllables [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1989 In natural speech, accented words may differ as to the degree of perceived prominence. At the acoustic level, two aspects of fundamental frequency (F0) variation may be responsible for the perceived prominence differences: the magnitude of F0 changes and the relative frequencies of F0 maxima.
J. Terken, R. Collier
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Weight sensitivity and prominence in Laurentian French
Glossa, 2022 Main prominence is conventionally described as being assigned to the final syllable of phrases in French, but previous quantitative and qualitative work has shown that this is not always the case.
Heather Goad, Jeffrey Lamontagne
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Detecting pitch accents at the word, syllable and vowel level [PDF]
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers on - NAACL '09, 2009 The automatic identification of prosodic events such as pitch accent in English has long been a topic of interest to speech researchers, with applications to a variety of spoken language processing tasks. However, much remains to be understood about the best methods for obtaining high accuracy detection.
Rosenberg, Andrew +1 more
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L’accentuation en Haute-Cornouaille et en Bas-Vannetais
La Bretagne Linguistique, 1985 There is no need to explain here what is meant by the term accent when speaking Breton. We know that it is generally an energetic accent, more or less strong depending on the region, and whose function is essentially demarcatory.
Jean-Yves Plourin
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All's well that ends well [PDF]
, 2010 A few years ago, Jasanoff adopted the central tenet of my accentological theory, viz. that the Balto-Slavic acute was a stød or glottal stop, not a rising tone (cf. Kortlandt 1975, 1977, 2004, Jasanoff 2004a).
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Experimental test of a hypothesized diachronic change in Basque accentuation
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2006 In the central and western Basque-speaking regions there are two main accentual types: In the Northern Bizkaian area we find a pitch-accent system with demarcative phrase-initial rises and uniformly falling (H*L) accents, on the last syllable of the ...
Gorka Elordieta, José Ignacio Hualde
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Age and Accent - Changes in a Southern Welsh English Accent [PDF]
, 2010 This paper describes the accent of Neath (South Wales) from a socio-dialectological perspective and deals with changes in the accent which are due to the non-linguistic factor age. In a direct interview with indirect questioning, 27 informants from Neath
Podhovnik, Edith
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Žodžio galo ir priegaidžių fonetinė evoliucija šiaurės žemaičių tarmėje
Baltistica, 2011 PHONETIC EVOLUTION OF WORD END AND SYLLABLE ACCENTS IN THE NORTHERN ŽEMAITIAN DIALECT Summary In this investigation an attempt is made to test if the accent, which is placed in the penultimate syllable, in the Northern Žemaitian dialect has any ...
Juozas Pabrėža
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STRESS TRANSFER TO THE PROCLITIC IN SPEECH ON THE RADIO AND TELEVISION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA
Filolog, 2021 This paper is based on the material collected according to the pronunciation of professional speakers on the Radio Television of the Republic of Srpska and shows that in modern Serbian of the Ijekavian dialect words are most often pronounced ...
Slađana M. Cukut
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Accent classes in South Kyengsang Korean: Lexical drift, novel words and loanwords [PDF]
, 2014 This paper examines changes in the accent class affiliation of c. 1900 words from Middle Korean into the modern South Kyengsang dialect. The data present the profile of a canonical analogical change: words are attracted to larger lexical classes and ...
Do, Youngah +2 more
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