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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"lexical pitch"”.
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Perception of Lexical Pitch Accents by Serbian and French Speakers
The study explored the perception of the Serbian lexical pitch accent by Serbian (native) and French (non-native) listeners. The motivation for the study came from the previous research on the processing of word-level prosodic categories in perception. With this study, I attempted to shed light on …
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The Interaction of *Focus and Lexical Pitch Accent in Speech Production and Dialogue Comprehension: Evidence From Japanese and Basque
… words is expressed by means of intonation in two pitch accent languages, Tokyo Japanese and Bermeo Basuque, in which the tonal shape of words is lexically determined. Two production experiments were conducted to examine how speakers of these two languages manipulate pitch to express various types …
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Lexical, Pragmatic and Positional Effects on Prosody in Two Dialects of Croatian and Serbian: An Acoustic Study
… as mentioned, the Belgrade dialect has a pitch-accent and vowel length contrast while the Zagreb dialect does not. Lexical pitch-accent and vowel length contrasts are found to influence the expression of pragmatic focus: the phonemic contrasts are enlarged in narrow focus. Tonal crowding …
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Pitch Contour of Japanese Traditional Verse
… thesis I conduct experiments to investigate how pitch pattern is realized in Japanese Traditional Verses. My observation consists of four parts: (i) investigation of lexical pitch and accentual combinations of Contemporary haiku in prose and in verse (ii) investigation of lexical pitch and …
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Pitch Contour of Japanese Traditional Verse
… thesis I conduct experiments to investigate how pitch pattern is realized in Japanese Traditional Verses. My observation consists of four parts: (i) investigation of lexical pitch and accentual combinations of Contemporary haiku in prose and in verse (ii) investigation of lexical pitch and …
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A weighted-constraint model of F0 movements/
… implementation of phonologically significant F0 (pitch) events, which is applicable across languages. Through production studies of various languages, we show that phonetic universals exist which govern phonetic realization of the phonological representations of tones. In the previous literature, …
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Singing in Chaozhou: The Relationship between Tones and Songs
In tone languages, tone is the use of pitch to contrast word meanings; this raises questions of whether, and if so, in what ways and to what extent, the pitches and pitch patterns of tones are preserved when they are sung. This thesis explores the relationship between lexical tones and musical …
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Effects of auditory feedback and real-time visual feedback on second language tone learning
… is challenging for non-tone speakers. While pitch, like melody, is processed by the right hemisphere for non-tonal language speakers, lexical tone as well as other language aspects (such as phonemes, syntax and semantics) appears to be processed by the left hemisphere for tonal language …