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Morphologically Assigned Accent and an Initial Three-Syllable Window in Ese’eja [PDF]
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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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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Exploiting Contextual Information for Prosodic Event Detection Using Auto-Context [PDF]
Prosody and prosodic boundaries carry significant information regarding linguistics and paralinguistics and are important aspects of speech. In the field of prosodic event detection, many local acoustic features have been investigated; however ...
Johnson, Michael T +5 more
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Local and metrical tone shift in Nguni
In this paper I argue that the Nguni languages have both a metrical tone shift rule and a non-metrical (local) tone shift rule which precedes and feeds assignment of metrical prominence (accent).
Laura J. Downing
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Análisis del sistema acentual de Ondarroa
In this paper, we offer a description and analysis of the accentual system employed in Ondarroa. Among the northern Biscayan varieties, the Ondarroa system is particularly interesting because of the high degree of opacity that it presents.
José Ignacio Hualde
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Lithuanian Syllable: The Hierarchy of Syllable Constituents and Syllable Weight
The article aims to establish the hierarchy of Lithuanian syllable constituents and determine how syllables should be interpreted in terms of syllable weight. The empirical data based on 311 000 syllables show that the variety of consonants in the onset
Asta Kazlauskienė
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An Opacity Problem in Mayo Reduplication
The phonological realization of heavy syllable reduplicants in Mayo (Uto-Aztecan) depends on the location of the accent in the unreduplicated form. Because the accent shifts after reduplication this creates an opacity in the determination of the base of ...
Haugen, Jason D.
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The study delineates divergences that set apart the Ugandan accent from RP with respect to primary lexical stress placement, as well as divergences that evince variability among Ugandans.
Adokorach Monica, Isingoma Bebwa
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The rhythmic type of Persian: A phonological perspective [PDF]
In rhythmic typology, languages are categorized into stress-timed and syllable-timed types. Earlier studies have highlighted the isochrony of interstress intervals and syllables in stress-timed and syllable-timed languages, respectively.
Anis Masoumi, Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami
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French Learners of L2 English: Intonation Boundaries and the Marking of Lexical Stress [PDF]
To test my hypothesis, I collected passages of read speech by thirteen upper intermediate/advanced French learners of English along with the same passage read by ten native English speakers. Two trisyllabics carrying primary stress on the second syllable
Horgues, Celine
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