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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"prosodic focus"”.
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The production of prosodic focus and contour in dialogue
… to convey intention, or attitude, and that prosodic prominence serves to convey conceptual prommence.<br></br><br></br> A model of an information-providing agent in is proposed, based on an analysis of a corpus of spontaneous dialogues. This uses an architecture of communicating processes, …
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The processing and production of prosodic focus in French by native and non-native speakers
… taught in the classroom. It does so by focusing on the domains of speech processing and speech production in L2 learners. Specifically, this dissertation investigates the processing and production of prosodic focus, a characteristic of the French language not taught in the classroom. …
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Focal prominence in tone languages: A case study of three Chinese languages
… present novel opportunities for sentence-level prosodic comparisons. Using uniform experimental protocols and analytical methods that incorporate both syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions, the study uncovers nuanced modulations of pitch and duration in response to different focus types, …
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The use of focus markers in second language word processing
… of a language can offer the means to assign focus to a certain element considered important. Speakers can draw from a rich pool of linguistic means to express this focus, and listeners can in turn interpret these to guide them to the highlighted information which in turn facilitates …