Morphologically Assigned Accent and an Initial Three-Syllable Window in Ese’eja [PDF]
UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Reports, 2016 Author(s): Rolle, Nicholas; Vuillermet, Marine | Abstract: Morphologically assigned accent and an initial three syllable window in Ese ...
Rolle, Nicholas, Vuillermet, Marine
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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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Syllable structure and lexical pitch accent in Split Croatian
Laboratory PhonologyContour tones in most languages are restricted to relatively sonorous syllable types. Relatively rare are languages that permit contour tones on all syllables, including less sonorous ones.
Adele Gregory +4 more
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The Prosody of Two-Syllable Words in French-Speaking Monolingual and Bilingual Children: A Focus on Initial Accent and Final Accent [PDF]
Language and Speech, 2021 This study examined the acoustic characteristics of disyllabic words produced by French-speaking monolingual and bilingual children, aged 2;6 to 6;10, and by adults. Specifically, it investigated the influence of age, bilingualism, and vocabulary on final-to-initial syllable duration ratios and on the presence of initial and final accent. Children and
Margaret Kehoe
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Neutralization or truncation? The perception of two Russian pitch accents on utterance-final syllables [PDF]
Speech Communication, 2005 This paper presents the results of a perception experiment that was carried out to verify the hypothesis that in Russian the contrast between pitch accents LH*L and LH* on utterance-final syllables is neutralized. Recordings for the experiment were 10 sets of three short utterances with word stress in the ultimate, penultimate and antepenultimate ...
Cecilia Odé
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Syllable structure and word stress effects in Peninsular Spanish nuclear accents [PDF]
Laboratory Phonology, 2015 AbstractIn this study we analyzed temporal alignment ...
Nicholas Henriksen
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Accent, Syllable Strucuture, and Morphology in Ancient Greek
Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, 2003 (No abstract available)
Paul Kiparsky
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Effects of syllable onset on the timing of pitch accent in Belgrade Serbian
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2018 In this paper, I present the results of an acoustic study on Serbian, a pitch-accent language with sonorant-sonorant onset clusters like /mr/ and /ml/. I show that peak timing in falling accents is not affected solely by syllable onset duration, as suggested by the segmental anchoring hypothesis, but rather is determined by an interaction between ...
Robin Karlin
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Speakers' attitudes toward the normative pronunciation of certain words with a (predominantly) long falling accent on the medial syllable in practice [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u PrištiniThe subject of this research is the attitudes of Serbian language speakers toward the normative pronunciation of certain loanwords that, in practice, most commonly bear a long falling accent on the medial syllable (e.g., ambasador, radijator, telèvizija,
Ivaniš Jovana V., Čopa Miljana B.
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Syllable structure and tonal representation : Revisiting focal Accent II in Swedish
, 2014 Funktions- och produktionsbaserad modellering av svensk prosodi/ Function- and production-based modeling of Swedish ...
Botinis, Antonis +2 more
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