Prominence in Indonesian Stress, phrases, and boundaries

Phrases, Pitch and Perceived Prominence in Maori

This study explores phrase-level prosody and prominence in the Māori language. Limited existing prosodic analysis and anecdotal evidence of diachronic change have motivated the present investigation into alignment of descriptions of intonation and stress with prominence perception test results and pitch analysis of speech data. In general, we find the expected case does occur most often, but ex...

Perception of discourse boundaries and prominence in spontaneous Dutch speech1

Perception of Prominence and Boundaries by Naïve French Listeners

French phrasal structure is described as based on an accent group in which the final (non-schwa) vowel receives prominence by virtue of its position in the phrase. This co-occurrence of prominence and phrasal boundaries was verified experimentally by testing the perceptions of untrained participants. The listeners demonstrated a strong tendency to mark as prominent those words immediately prece...

Stress patterns in Swedish lexicalised phrases

This paper reports the results from a series of studies of stress patterns in Swedish lexicalised phrases (LPs). The studies conducted were carried out with the general purpose of identifying parameters that can be used to predict stress patterns in Swedish LPs. An LP lexicon with part of speech and relative stress level indicated for each word unit in the LP entries was used for this purpose. ...

Phrasal stress in Beijing Mandarin disyllabic phrases

Mandarin Chinese has been claimed to have phrasal stress which falls on a nonhead constituent: on the modifier in a modifier-noun phrase, and on the object in a verb-object phrase (MODNh and VhOBJ, respectively; the subscript h stands for head, and the stressed constituent is underlined). This NONHEAD STRESS RULE is motivated by the greater information load carried by the nonhead than its synta...