This paper discusses some of the problems regarding the unnaturalness of speech data currently used in research on oral Japanese politeness and proposes improved techniques. Two experiments were carried out. First, to extract natural unscripted utterances, within a specific vocabulary and context, the experimental design of the Map Task was employed with the population controlled for social sta...

sionaries, native speakers, and ethnographers had previously been aware of the importance of suprasegmentals in the language, Haas was the first to accurately record Creek, the first to develop a phonemic transcription (Haas 1940; 1977b), and the first to provide rules for the placement of what she called "tonal accent." It is one measure of the complexity of the system that some 36 years separ...

In the last fifteen years, there have been major paradigm shifts in both general and applied linguistics toward acknowledging intonation as an indispensable component of language and communication. In addition, the hardware and software for conducting acoustic phonetic signal analysis have recently become more accessible. The main goal of this paper is thus to integrate the two seemingly dispar...

Arabic phonetics has been part of the study of Arabic language since the 7 th century CE. The great works by Al-Khali:l, "Kita:b al-'Ayn", and Si:bawayh, author of the first Arabic grammar book "al-kita:b" (i.e., "The Book") are the two cornerstones of this field. The early Arab grammarians knew phonetics quite well, although they mixed it with phonology, but interest in phonetics has remained ...

In the last fifteen years, there have been major paradigm shifts in both general and applied linguistics toward acknowledging intonation as an indispensable component of language and communication. In addition, the hardware and software for conducting acoustic phonetic signal analysis have recently become more accessible. The main goal of this paper is thus to integrate the two seemingly dispar...

• Speakers are sensitive to auditorily perturbed speech timing. Response strategies depend on stress pattern and/or syllable position. Insight into timing requires consideration of multiple prosodic levels. Durational adjustments were often accompanied by changes in intensity and other suprasegmentals. This study examines speakers’ reaction focally applied temporal real-time auditory feedback p...

It has been long held that segmental and prosodic aspects of speech belong to very different domains. Segments refer to vowels and consonants which constitute the phonemes that make up the words of speech, and they are what most writing systems record. As such they are viewed as the core components of speech. Prosodic components, also known as suprasegmentals, refer to properties like stress, t...

the major objective of the present writer is to survey some of the problems that iranian learners of english encounter as to the use of english stress patterns and intonation. it seems rather obvious that the main source of difficulty in the use of english stress and intonation is the interference comingfrom the learners' mother tongue, i.e. persian. the present writer also tries to offer ...

The current study investigates the learning of nonnative suprasegmental patterns for word identification. Native English-speaking adults learned to use suprasegmentals (pitch patterns) to identify a vocabulary of six English pseudosyllables superimposed with three pitch patterns (18 words). Successful learning of the vocabulary necessarily entailed learning to use pitch patterns in words. Two m...