How to Tell Beans from Farmers: Cues to the Perception of Pitch Accent in Whispered Norwegian
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 East Norwegian employs pitch accent contours in order to make lexical distinctions. This paper researches listeners' ability to make lexical distinctions in the absence of f0 (ie. whispered speech) as the listener attempts to determine which pitch accent
Hannele Nicholson, Andreas Hilmo Teig
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The poetry as reliable evidence of linguistic phenomena [PDF]
, 2013 Many linguists refuse to believe that poetic and especially metrical - texts can provide reliable evidence of linguistic phenomena. In this article, I show that the Medieval Greek poetry represents an exception.
Soltic, Jorie
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The Phonetic and Phonological Analysis of the Fall-Rise Intonation Pattern in the Kihnu Variety of Estonian; pp. 171-179 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2012 The paper presents an analysis of fall-rise intonation patterns in the Kihnu dialect of Estonian. The study is based on recordings of spontaneous speech from three generations of female speakers.
Eva Liina Asu, Nele Salveste
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Vowel duration in stressed position in central & northern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]
, 2011 We report the results of a pilot study investigating the effect of 2 regional accents on stressed vowel duration according to word-position and syllable type in Central v. Northern accents of Standard Italian.
Hajek, John, Lee, Wai-Sum, Stevens, Mary
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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Central and Southern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]
, 2008 This study is the first investigation of the effects of regional accent on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in standard Italian.
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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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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Hitz-konposakera euskaraz eta aitzin-euskaraz
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2003 Lakarra's explanation of pre-proto-Basque (1995), according to which the canonical word was monosyllabic at a very early time, brings very important consequences to the reconstruction of the language and offers us new ways of understanding the possible ...
Mikel Martínez
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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
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The contrastive value of lexical stress in visual word recognition: Evidence from spanish [PDF]
, 2018 Resumen tomado de la publicaciónEl valor contrastivo del acento léxico en el reconocimiento visual de palabras: evidencia del español. Antecedentes: muchos pares de palabras en español, en particular muchas formas verbales, difieren solo en la sílaba ...
Cuetos Vega, Fernando +1 more
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Graikų ir lotynų kirčiavimo įtaka lietuvių kirčio žymėjimui
Baltistica, 2011 THE INFLUENCE OF GREEK AND LATIN ACCENTUATION ON LITHUANIAN ACCENT NOTATIONSummaryThe accent signs of most alphabetic languages ultimately derive from Greek signs devised in the 3rd century BC.
Mindaugas Strockis
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