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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ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2023 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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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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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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Syllable-based Regional Swiss French Accent Identification using Prosodic Features [PDF]
Nouveaux cahiers de linguistique françcaise, 2014 Lazaridis Alexandros, Garner Philip N.
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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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French Learners of L2 English: Intonation Boundaries and the Marking of Lexical Stress [PDF]
, 2013 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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The accentuation of Japanese loanword – Correlation between syllable quantity and accent –
Journal of Japanese Studies, 2017 손범기
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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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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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