This study investigates acoustic correlates of prominence in Lizu (Tibeto-Burman). has been argued to have a hybrid prosodic system combining lexical tone on monosyllabic words and patterns with stress-like tonal characteristics polysyllabic words, although empirical evidence is lacking. presents an investigation the pitch disyllabic Kala variety (HL, HH, LH). Using parameters duration, intensi...

Information structure of an utterance is one the key factors determining phonological unit realization patterns including duration which manifested differently in males and females. This article examines influence information load gender on Chinese syllable commercial social advertising discourse. The material was taken from texts oral produced by 6 professional speakers (3 males, 3 females). m...

An articulatory study was conducted to explore effects of prosodic boundary and syllable structure on temporal realizations of /ma/ in C♯V vs. ♯CV in Korean (where ‘♯’ denotes an Intonational Phrase or a Word boundary). The vocalic gesture underwent boundary-induced lengthening more in C♯V than in ♯CV, implying that the boundary effect is largely localized to the initial element whether consona...

The current study addresses the question of how word-level (“stress”) and phraseor sentence-level prominence (“accent”) is realized in Polish. For this purpose, a production experiment eliciting semi-spontaneous utterances was conducted, closely following the methodological approach introduced in [1]. Our acoustic analyses are based on identical target syllables which are embedded in sentences ...

In this paper I investigate a previously neglected aspect of the phonology of Russian vowel-∅ alternations involving verbal prefixes and prepositions. There is evidence both for and against the notion that prepositions and verbal prefixes — which I will call P, for short — have identical phonological behavior. There are at least two processes that suggest that P forms a unified phonological cat...

PURPOSE Previous work on the temporal coordination between gesture and speech found that the prominence in gesture coordinates with speech prominence. In this study, the authors investigated the anchoring regions in speech and pointing gesture that align with each other. The authors hypothesized that (a) in contrastive focus conditions, the gesture apex is anchored in the intonation peak and (b...

To the best of our knowledge, this is by far the first phonetic study on Kanakanavu, an endangered Austronesian language spoken in southern Taiwan. A disyllabic word pair only differs in stress position was recorded from four native speakers. Tone type and corresponding acoustic correlates were analyzed. Results showed that lexical stress is realized with ample prosodic patterns when it is on p...

Within language, systematic correlations exist between syntactic structure and prosody. Prosodic prominence, for instance, falls on the complement and not the head of syntactic phrases, and its realization depends on the phrasal position of the prominent element. Thus, in Japanese, a functor-final language, prominence is phrase-initial, and realized as increased pitch (^ Tōkyōni "Tokyo to"), wh...

Most speakers in today’s societies are bilingual or multilingual and linguistic research has shown that the grammatical systems of two or more languages interact in speech production and perception [11,13]. The confrontation of two or more competing phonological systems and their phonetic realization leads to what we generally understand as a “foreign accent”. The interference appears on the se...

Prior work has shown that listeners efficiently exploit prosodic information both in the discourse referent and in the preceding modifier to identify the referent. This study investigated whether listeners make use of prosodic information prior to the ENTIRE referential expression, i.e. the intonational realization of the adverb 'now', to identify the upcoming referent. The adverb ‘now’ can be ...