Observations on Milton’s Accents

Topic Accents on Quantifiers

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...

On the alleged existence of contrastive accents

Speakers may use pitch accents as pointers to new information, or as signals of a contrast relation between the accented item and a limited set of alternatives. There is no consensus in the literature whether a separately identi able contrastive accent exists. Some studies report that contrastive accents are more emphatic than newness accents and have a di erent melodic shape. In other studies,...

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...