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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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Pitch Accent in Korean [PDF]

, 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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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, Hirschberg, Julia Bell   +1 more
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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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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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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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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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ACCENTAL DOUBLETISM OF FOUR SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES ON THE RADIO AND TELEVISION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA

Filolog, 2021
This paper analyses one type of accent doubletism in the speech of professional speakers on the material of an informative programme on the public television broadcast in the Republic of Srpska.
Слађана М. Цукут
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