Prosody conveys information about the linguistic context of an utterance at every level of
linguistic organisation, from the word up to the discourse context. Acoustic correlates of …

Understanding the role of prosody in encoding linguistic meaning and in shaping phonetic
form requires the analysis of prosodically annotated speech drawn from a wide variety of …

Researchers have established a relationship between beginning readers' silent
comprehension ability and their prosodic fluency, such that readers who read aloud with …

Talkers imitate the speech of others through phonetic convergence. The current study
examined the influence of dialect-specific features and dialect familiarity on the extent and …

In American English (AE) intonation, the pitch pattern in the final region of a prosodic phrase
conveys pragmatic meaning. The phonological analysis of the system proposed in …

Phonetic convergence is linguistically and socially selective. The current study examined the
constraints on this selectivity in convergence to Southern American English by non-Southern …

Speakers strongly vary in their imitation abilities, but the factors underlying this variation are
still unclear. This study examined whether individual differences in working memory affect …

The aim of this study was to test whether both phonetic and phonological representations of
intonation can be rapidly modified when imitating utterances belonging to a different …

Nonnative sounds and sequences are systematically adapted in both perception and
production. For example, American English speakers often modify illegal word-initial clusters …

The present study tests a prediction from the prevalent Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) model
of American English intonation: the existence of distinct phonological contrasts among …