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A Corpus-Based, Pilot Study of Lexical Stress Variation in American English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Phonological free variation describes the phenomenon of there being more than one pronunciation for a word without any change in meaning (e.g. because, schedule, vehicle).
A. Cruttenden   +10 more
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The origin of the Japanese and Korean accent systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
S.R. Ramsey writes (1979: 162): "The patterning of tone marks in Old Kyoto texts divides the vocabulary into virtually the same classes as those arrived at by comparing the accent distinctions found in the modern dialects.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Issues in Balto-Slavic accentology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
After the very well-organized Leiden conference for which we must be grateful to Tijmen Pronk, it seems appropriate for me to review some of the papers, as I did after the previous conferences in Zagreb and Copenhagen. The aim of this review is merely to
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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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]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini
The 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.
doaj   +1 more source

Balto-Slavic accentuation revisited [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
There is every reason to welcome the revised edition (2009) of Thomas Olander’s dissertation (2006), which I have criticized elsewhere (2006). The book is very well written and the author has a broad command of the scholarly literature.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Neutralization or truncation? The perception of two Russian pitch accents on utterance-final syllables [PDF]

open access: yesSpeech 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 ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Automatisation of intonation modelling and its linguistic anchoring [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper presents a fully machine-driven approach for intonation description and its linguistic interpretation. For this purpose,a new intonation model for bottom-up F0 contour analysis and synthesis is introduced, the CoPaSul model which is designed ...
Reichel, Uwe D.
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From Proto-Indo-European to Slavic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
A correct evaluation of the Slavic evidence for the reconstruction of the Indo- European proto-language requires an extensive knowledge of a considerable body of data.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Bridges

open access: yes, 2014
This entry discusses the linguistic (prosodic) features of the Ancient Greek poetic phenomenon of the metrical bridge, a position in a line of verse where a word division is either disallowed or strongly ...
Brown, H. Paul
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Syllable structure and word stress effects in Peninsular Spanish nuclear accents

open access: yesLaboratory Phonology, 2015
AbstractIn this study we analyzed temporal alignment ...
openaire   +1 more source

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