Is speech rhythmic? In the absence of evidence for a traditional view that languages strive to
coordinate either syllables or stress-feet with regular time intervals, we consider the …

Intonation is a means for conveying information in speech independently of the words.
Central to intonation is variation in speaking pitch over the domain of the utterance, but …

This study aims at examining and accounting for the scope of the temporal effect of phrase
boundaries. Previous research has indicated that there is an interaction between boundary …

Speech segments are lengthened at the onsets and offsets of linguistic constituents. Final-
syllable vowel lengthening is proposed to be a language-universal cue to word …

Phrase-final syllable duration and pauses are generally considered to be positively
correlated: The stronger the boundary, the longer the duration of phrase-final syllables, and …

The redundancy hypothesis proposes that older listeners need a larger array of acoustic
cues than younger listeners for effective speech perception. This research investigated this …

This acoustic study explores compensatory influences of foot structure on segmental
duration and quantity in the foot nuclei of 22 trisyllabic and four disyllabic structures in …

Inspection of a speech waveform does not reveal clear correlates of what the listener
perceives as word boundaries. Yet the absence of word boundary markers hardly poses a …

Prosodic end-weight refers to the well-documented tendency of prosodically heavier
constituents to be preferred at the ends of domains when other factors (eg semantics …

The duration of inter-speaker pauses is a pragmatically salient aspect of conversation that is
affected by linguistic and non-linguistic context. Theories of conversational turn-taking imply …