In German intonational phonology two different approaches to model nuclear falling accents exist (cf. [6, 8] vs. GToBI [11]). While [6] and [8] assume only left-headed pitch accents, the GToBI system allows for leftand right headedness. Consequently, in the former approach one simple falling accent (H*L) is represented in the tonal grammar while GToBI distinguishes between two falling accents, ...

This paper treats the issue of prosodic segmentation into phrasing domains in Russian and is framed in the prosodic phonology paradigm. Distributions of prosodic boundaries are obtained in a perception experiment and the results are further explored to advance the hypotheses about the levels of prosodic constituency in Russian. The temporal organisation of the perceived domains and the eurhythm...

Pitch accent placement is a major topic in intonational phonology research and its application to speech synthesis. What factors in uence whether or not a word is made intonationally prominent or not is an open question. In this paper, we investigate how one aspect of a word's local context | its collocation with neighboring words | in uences whether it is accented or not. Results of experiment...

A second occurrence (SO) focus is the semantic focus of a focus sensitive operator (e.g. only), but is a repeat of an earlier focused occurrence. SO foci are intonationally distinct from the original occurrence of the material, and are often claimed to lack any intonational marking, e.g. pitch accent (Partee 1999). This apparent dissociation of semantic and intonational focus is commonly used a...

This paper addresses the issue of the contribution of intonation to the meaning of an utterance, and more precisely of the conditions that should be met to propose a compositional approach to the meaning of intonational contours. After presenting different positions in the literature and specifying if and how much these proposals can be said compositional, we show that their differences can be ...

ABSTRACT In this article, we investigate the presence and absence of commas in a longitudinal sample texts genre report written by 11 to 15 years-old students from school countryside São Paulo State. Our hypothesis is that comma used when syntactic boundaries match prosodic ones. The constituents are formed phonological information, according principles defined Prosodic Phonology theoretical ap...