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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"prosodic structure"”.
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The development of word-prosodic structure in child German : simplex words and compounds
Die Dissertation untersucht die Entwicklung der prosodischen Struktur von Simplizia und Komposita im Deutschen. Ausgewertet werden langzeitlich erhobene Produktionsdaten von vier monolingualen Kindern im Alter von 12 bis 26 Monaten. Es werden vier Entwicklungsstufen angenommen, in denen jedoch …
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From prosodic structure to acoustic saliency: an fMRI investigation of speech rate, clarity, and emphasis
… with right-lateralized motor planning of prosodic variation in emphatic speech. Clear speech involved an increase in average vowel and sentence durations and average vowel spacing, along with increased activity in left middle premotor cortex and bilateral primary sensorimotor cortex. These …
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Syntax and Prosody of Coordination
This thesis investigates the syntactic and prosodic properties of what I call correlative coordination; coordination where each junct (i.e., conjunct or disjunct) has an overt coordinator (e.g., either…or…). I argue that the coordinators are focus-sensitive operators, and each coordinator has two …
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An investigation of discourse prosody in naturally occuring read text
… were generalisable across text types. The prosodic transcriptions of the texts were used to identi& the onset syllables. The corresponding fi.indamental frequencies were then measured and recorded. It was found that the news readings largely conformed to past findings. Paragraph initial …
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Modeling temporal coordination in speech production using an artificial central pattern generator neural network
… interactions between levels of phonological structure and to simulate those interactions’ effects on speech timing. Chapter 4 describes a study of NOMSTR’s ability to model the metrical structures of French and English utterances, through comparing the syllable durations and locations of …
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Irony in a second language: exploring the comprehension of Japanese speakers of English
… the groups with regard to response trends. Three prosodic contours were used in this study, labelled ‘basic’ (a kind of default, unmarked tone), ‘deadpan’ (with a narrower pitch range), and ‘exaggerated’ (with a wider pitch range). The results indicated that Japanese participants could perceive …
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Analyzing Navajo Discourse: Investigating Form and Function of Intonational Units in Referential Discourse
… and specific constructions (i.e. relative clause structure, subject-object-inversion), but to date the proposed establishment of a method to analyze actual discourse from a functional or usage based approach has not occurred. The goal of this study is twofold. The first is to establish a method to …
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Weighing Preaspiration: Phonetics, Phonology, Typology of a Laryngeal Phenomenon
… and typology of preaspiration, reassessing the prosodic status of this phenomenon and arguing that its traditional conception in the literature does not align with crosslinguistic phonetic and phonological patterns. Contra the commonly held assumption that preaspiration is a laryngeal property …
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Perception of Lexical Pitch Accents by Serbian and French Speakers
… research on the processing of word-level prosodic categories in perception. With this study, I attempted to shed light on the ways the lexical pitch accent is perceptually processed by both native and non-native listeners in view of contributing to methodological and theoretical paradigms …
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Lexical and post-lexical tones in Akan
… in Akan. Another important factor is the prosodic manifestation of sentence level pragmatic meanings, such as sentence mode and focus. Regarding the former, the thesis shows that a post-lexical low tone, which associates with the right edge of an IP, signals interrogativity. Additionally, …
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Prosodic Boundary Effects on Syntactic Disambiguation in Children with Cochlear Implants, and in Normal Hearing Adults and Children
<p>Theoretical Framework: Manipulations of prosodic structure influence how listeners interpret syntactically ambiguous sentences. However, the interface between prosody and syntax has received very little attention in languages other than English. Furthermore, many children with cochlear implants …