The foot is the prosodic entity typically used to explain metrical phenomena like stress assignment and pitch accentuation. This paper attempts to widen the explanatory role of feet to include not only suprasegmental effects but also segmental behaviour. Segmental properties such as static distribution patterns and dynamic alternation processes are usually explained by referring to another pros...

This is a study of tonal representation as a function of syllable structure constituency in Swedish. The results of a production experiment indicate that the onset of the focal accent rise – which we suggest to be best represented by a bitonal LH command – is associated with the consonant onset of the postaccented syllable. Furthermore, a vowel insertion is favored in certain intervocalic conso...

Children's prosodically conditioned substitutions have been recently described in terms of syllable structure. In this paper we present an alternative analysis, based on the position of the consonant within the foot. We review data from a previous case study (Chiat, 1989) that provide evidence in favour of a foot domain account and against the syllable structure account. One consequence of this...

This study presents a micro-typological description of German dialects, focusing on the structure 13,492 tokens monosyllables, across 182 locations within Germany. Based data from Phonetischer Atlas der Bundesrepublik Deutschland , systematic geographical differences in both segmental and prosodic organization syllables are explored. The analysis reveals North–South contrast syllable structure....

This paper proposes a model of differential tonal perception in which perception of tonal movement in spoken language i s influenced by syllable structure. In the proposed model, tonal movement at syllable onset is perceptually coded differently from movement in the syllable nucleus or in the coda. An F0 contour through the syllable onset or at the beginning of the nucleus is coded as a level t...

It has been known that the syllable structures in Korean are different from those in English. The goal of this paper is to provide computational implementations for Korean syllable structures in the typed feature structure formalism. The system that we adopted in this paper is the Linguistic Knowledge Building system. We first implemented the type hierarchies and AVMs for segment and suprasegme...

This paper presents a fast fuzzy search algorithm to extract keyword candidates from syllable confusion networks (SCNs) in Mandarin spontaneous speech. Since the recognition accuracy of spontaneous speech is quite poor, syllable confusion matrix (SCM) is applied to compensate for the recognition errors and to improve recall. For fast retrieval, an efficient vocabulary-independent index structur...

The purpose of this study is to address the acquisition of syllable structure by Russianspeaking children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). We report results of a pseudo-word repetition task in which syllable number and syllable complexity are manipulated. This study employed a non-equivalent groups design in which nineteen participants were classified into an SLI impaired group (6) and ...