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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"pitch accents"”.
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On the Swedish pitch accents
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1995.
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On the perception of pitch accents
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.
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Perception of Lexical Pitch Accents by Serbian and French Speakers
… 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 the …
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Prosody and syntactic processing
… of prosody, intonational phrase boundaries and pitch accents, are used in syntactic processing. Traditionally, it has been argued that while intonational phrase boundaries interact with syntactic structure, pitch accents do not. One apparent exception to this view is work by Schafer, Carter, …
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Towards a hybrid model of speech prosody
… experiments that test the representation of pitch accents in memory, and directly compares memory for pitch accents to memory for phonemes. Results show that (1) explicit memory for prosody is more accurate for categorical differences, rather than equivalently large within-category …
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Prosodic prominence in English
… the prosodic prominence in relation to pitch accents, acoustic cues, and discourse meaning of a word in a public speech. The second study examines the cognitive representation of prosodic contour in a corpus of imitation. Linguists claim that the information status of a word determines …
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Intonation in Indian English and Hindi late and simultaneous bilinguals
… investigating pre-boundary lengthening (PBL), pitch accents and focus. This study shows that simultaneous bilinguals of Hindi and Indian English don’t have two different systems of intonation. They have a merged system probably because they acquired a nativized variety of English; however, …
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What happened (and what didn't): prominence promotes representation of salient alternatives in discourse
… generalizing past effects of contrastive pitch accents. In Experiment 3, font emphasis facilitated rejections of salient alternatives but not less plausible alternatives that were nevertheless mentioned in the discourse. Online reading time measures in Experiment 2 indicated that …
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Word boundary detection using landmarks : a survey of consonants
… two nasals), controlled for prosodic boundaries, pitch accents, phonetic contexts, and word positions (initial vs. final), was recorded from six speakers. On the assumption that consonants might be articulated differently at word onsets, several temporal and spectral measurements were made 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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The perception of intonation in native and non-native linguistic contexts and by different individuals: From question-answer categorization to the integration of prosody and discourse structure
… studied with ERPs the association of specific Pitch Accents with the discourse status of a referent in German and how different processing-correlates of PA violation are processed in L1 and L2 speakers. In all experiments, specific attention has been devoted to individual differences both at …
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The processing and production of prosodic focus in French by native and non-native speakers
… of French used prosodic focus (in the form of pitch accents) in online sentence interpretation. Experiment 1a revealed that native speakers’ interpretation of sentences in French was constrained by whether or not the referent in the sentence was prosodically focused. Experiment 1b showed that …
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Spanish prosody on the Uruguayan-Brazilian border: Cross-generational and Social Variation
… by looking at both rhythm and intonation (pitch accents and F0).Results reveal RS and MS differ prosodically. In terms of intonation, RS bilinguals exhibit a larger tonal inventory with patterns resembling Portuguese but also with the presence of innovative configurations. Phonetic …