Institute of Phonetic Sciences,
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The purpose of this study was to explore the notion of prominence in spoken language. It concentrated on finding an operational definition of prominence, on giving a description of the linguistic and acoustical correlates of prominence, and on analyzing these correlates in terms of their contribution to prominence distinctions. Furthermore, this study was concerned with feature extraction, and with prominence prediction, either on the basis of linguistic features or on the basis of acoustic features.
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In 1922 the first courses in practical phonetics at the University of Amsterdam were given by Louise Kaiser, albeit in the physiological laboratory for the time being. In 1926 a chair in the Faculty of Arts was instituted and Louise Kaiser was appointed as a reader in Phonetics. Th� Physiological Laboratory, at the Jodenbreestraat, accomodated phonetics for several years, but in 1932 room was f...
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