Foreign accent syndrome FAS) is a motor speech disorder in which patients develop a speech accent which is notably different from their premorbid accent. This paper investigates the perceptual differences between speakers with FAS, speakers with a real foreign accent and a group of control speakers. From the results it appears that speakers with FAS are situated between the other groups at all ...

Aspects of language, such as accent, play a crucial role in the formation and categorization of one’s cultural identity. Recent work on accent emphasizes the role of accent in person perception and social categorization, demonstrating that accent also serves as a meaningful indicator of an ethnic category. In this article, we investigate whether the accent of an interaction partner, as a marker...

This paper reports the results of an experiment, which investigates what properties of Russian rising pitch accents are constant under changes in segmental duration brought about by modifications of speech rate. To be more specific, the experiment is aimed at examining whether the “segmental anchoring” of F0 movements is observed in this language. By segmental anchoring, I mean the phenomenon f...

res the effect of accent on duration from the Japanese rhythmic structure. Phonetic al that prepausal vowel duration significantly varies by more than 40% depending on accent is great degree of durational variation restricted tion suggests that the prepausal position is free ts of mora timing in Japanese.

This paper presents a pilot study on the prosodic marking of a contrastive topic in Southern Swedish. A test sentence was elicited in three experimental conditions: initial focus; final focus; contrastive topic (initial word) plus focus (final word). F0 patterns were analysed in recordings of 10 speakers. A majority of the speakers distinguished clearly between the conditions, but speakers empl...

English speech based on accent dependent parallel phoneme recognition (PPR) has been developed. The classifier is designed to process continuous speech and to discriminate between native Australian English (AuE) speakers and two migrant speaker groups with foreign accents, whose first languages are Lebanese Arabic (LA) and South Vietnamese (SV). The training of the system can be automated and i...

Language plays a crucial role in the formation and categorization of one’s ethnic identity. Recent work on linguistic accent emphasizes the role of accent in person perception and social categorization, demonstrating that accent serves as a meaningful ethnic category indicator. In this paper, we examine whether accent can be used to implement socio-cultural markers. We investigate whether the a...

This paper develops an online and freely available framework to aid teaching and learning the prosodic control of Tokyo Japanese: how to generate its adequate word accent and phrase intonation. This framework is called OJAD (Online Japanese Accent Dictionary) [1] and it provides three features. 1) Visual, auditory, systematic, and comprehensive illustration of patterns of accent change (accent ...

Numerous proposals have been advanced as to how prosodic systems should be typologised. In this paper I distinguish two prototype systems, tone and stress accent, which, unlike systems analysed as ‘pitch accent’, have two inviolable, definitional properties: (i) obligatoriness (every word has at least one stress accent) ; (ii) syllable-dependency (the stress-bearing unit is necessarily the syll...

A common technique to cope with the large variability in the acoustic realisations of the phonetic classes in speech, is to partition the data according to a linguistically significant variable. In this work, accent dependent phonetic models were trained and used both as an analysis tool for pronunciation variation and in the attempt to improve ASR performance. The Idea Accent dependent trainin...