In Hungarian, focussed elements occur in certain syntactic positions. Because of this limitation, prominence marking by means of prosody is less salient than in languages where focus can be expressed by accent shift without changes in word order. In this study, we examined Hungarian utterances that were identical in their segmental structure, but differed with regard to their semantic and pragm...

This study examines the phonetic correlates of stress and accent in Catalan, analyzing syllable duration, spectral balance, vowel quality, and overall intensity in two stress [stressed, unstressed] and in two accent conditions [accented, unaccented]. Catalan reveals systematic phonetic differences between accent and stress, consistent with previous work on Dutch, English, and Spanish (Slujter &...

Foreign accent syndrome is a changed accent syndrome mainly caused by brain injury. This study is to report two cases with foreign accent syndrome and their clinical features. And we also point some lasted articles to understand and discuss this disease in clinical manifestation, imaging, language pathology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment for the sake of further study.

In this article I present a formal theory of word accent. The theory separates the representation of primary accent and ‘perceptually strong’ syllables that are due to rhythm (sometimes in combination with syllable weight), the idea being that the rhythmic beats are accounted for independently, although ‘with reference to’ the primary accent location.

Through tight collaboration with teachers of Japanese, an online accent dictionary and a reading tutor are developed to support teaching and learning of Japanese prosody. In this development, techniques of natural language processing and spoken language processing are effectively applied. What makes teaching and learning of Japanese accent difficult is the fact that word accent of Japanese ofte...

Accented speech conveys important nonverbal information about the speaker as well as presenting the brain with the problem of decoding a non-canonical auditory signal. The processing of non-native accents has seldom been studied in neurodegenerative disease and its brain basis remains poorly understood. Here we investigated the processing of non-native international and regional accents of Engl...

this study has been derived from my doctorate thesis entitled as ‘’al derasate val tahghigh hula area alsarfie val nahvie leibn geni fi ketabeh al khasaes’’ which while expressing a little about life and literature of ibne geni, explain the subject of accent variations in terms of meaning and structure. it is believed that ibn geni in 321 (h-gh) was born in mousel. some believe that his name ha...

Accent morphing aims to modify the accent of a speaker whilst maintaining speaker identity. A textindependent approach could be based on voice conversion systems which manipulate speaker identity through spectral mapping. However, it is not clear to what extent accent changes can be captured with spectral mapping alone. In this paper we implement and evaluate a text-dependent accent morphing sy...