Prosodic and structural correlates of perceived prominence in Russian and Hindi
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Perceived prominence in Russian and Hindi, free word order languages, can be communicated prosodically and structurally, via word order. Paired production and perception experiments with native speakers show that discourse-prominent constituents are marked acoustically, via a perceptible increase in vowel intensity and f0, and structurally, via a change in word order and placing a word into a designated position in a sentence or clause.
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