Th is paper reviews evidence from recent research on Japanese sentence prosody, in particular Kawahara and Shinya (2008) on coordinated clauses and Kubo (1989) et seq, Deguchi and Kitagawa (2002) et seq, Ishihara (2002) et seq and Hirotani (2003) et seq on matrix and embedded wh-questions, which suggests that syntactic clauses correspond to a domain for certain of the phonological and phonetic ...

this research was conducted to reveal the differences between the intonation systems of persian and japanese languages and to be applied to the contrastive linguistics and language teaching fields. first,a description of the intonation system in the autosegmental-metrical phonology framework was chosen as reference for each language. based on these two descriptions, the intonations of the two l...

This paper examines the phonetics and phonology of intonational boundaries in five Romance languages/varieties. A typology of the boundary cues used is given, as well as their relative frequency. The phonology of the tonal boundary gesture is described by means of the inventory of nuclear accents used plus their possible combinations with the two dominant end contours: continuation rise (H) and...

This paper examines the phonetics and phonology of intonational boundaries in five Romance languages/varieties. A typology of the boundary cues used is given, as well as their relative frequency. The phonology of the tonal boundary gesture is described by means of the inventory of nuclear accents used plus their possible combinations with the two dominant end contours: continuation rise (H) and...

It has been claimed that there are only two prosodic levels – accentual phrase and intonational phrase – in Seoul Korean. This paper demonstrates the necessity for one more phrase level – an intermediate phrase. It is shown that the intermediate phrase is a domain of F0 range reset, and the intermediate phrase level can be distinguished from the accentual phrase and the intonational phrase by i...

Cette étude montre que les locuteurs retiennent et utilisent systématiquement des informations détaillées qui vont au-delà des contrastes representés par la phonologie intonative. Les sujets ont d’abord imité des énoncés synthétisés avec diverses courbes de f0. Ensuite, ils ont imité leurs propres productions à travers plusieurs séances successives. Des courbes de f0 stables ne se sont établies...