Manual accents

Latin Modern: Enhancing Computer Modern with accents, accents, accents

The number of (free) fonts prepared with METAFONT is surprisingly small compared, e.g., to what is available in the commercial market in other formats. Well, perhaps not so surprisingly: METAFONT generates TEX-oriented bitmap fonts which have not become popular outside the TEX world. Accepting this irksome situation as a challenge, we have prepared METAType1, a package for generating fonts in t...

Exposure to multiple accents supports infants' understanding of novel accents.

Accented speech poses a challenge for listeners, particularly those with limited knowledge of their language. In a series of studies, we explored the possibility that experience with variability, specifically the variability provided by multiple accents, would facilitate infants' comprehension of speech produced with an unfamiliar accent. 15- and 18-month-old American-English learning infants w...

Metrical Accents Do Not Create Illusory Dynamic Accents

Metrical accents, which are said to arise from perception of a beat in a rhythm, confer subjective prominence to events that fall on the beat. Does that mean the metrically accented events are perceived as physically more prominent (e.g., louder or longer) than other events? A recent study requiring participants to detect small physical changes in melodies having a subjectively imposed beat (Re...

Topic Accents on Quantifiers

Some Problems with Accents in TEX: Letters with Multiple Accents and Accents Varying for Uppercase/Lowercase Letters

The problems of using the internal command \accent as a tool for support of some Cyrillic writing systems is investigated. It is shown that the internal features of \accent prevent construction of some Cyrillic letters which require several accents simultaneously. A special macro which emulates the work of \accent by some other commands is suggested. The accents for I/i and J/j, which are diffe...