Prominence and intonation in Singapore English

AJ Chong, JS German - Journal of Phonetics, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Previous work on Singapore English prosody has focused largely on establishing
the acoustic correlates of lexical stress and examining where the language falls within a …

An approach to constructing prosodic grammar for Mandarin read speech

YS Hong, CY Chiang, YR Wang… - The Journal of the …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A data-driven approach to constructing a prosodic grammar of Mandarin read speech is
proposed. Prosodic labeling is performed, first, on a large speech corpus with syntactic-tree …

Lexical tonal effects in code-switching: A comparative study of Cantonese, Mandarin, and Vietnamese switching with English

KK Li, L Nguyen, C Bryant… - International Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and objectives: Previous research has revealed much about the syntactic and social
variables conditioning code-switching (ie, the alternation between two or more languages in …

[HTML][HTML] La prosodie au Laboratoire Parole et Langage: histoire, recherches actuelles et perspectives

R Bertrand, J German, S Herment… - … sur la parole et le …, 2022 - journals.openedition.org
1/Question (s) posée (s) et problématiqueCet article se donne pour objectif de rendre
compte de la façon dont les recherches au Laboratoire Parole et Langage contribuent …

The accentual phrase in Singapore English

AJ Chong, J Sneed German - Phonetica, 2017 - degruyter.com
This paper reports on a speech production experiment that explores whether the accentual
phrase (AP) represents an abstract level of prosodic phrasing in Singapore English …

[PDF][PDF] A Data-driven Approach to Constructing a Prosodic Grammar for Mandarin Read Speech

YS Hong, SH Chen - Speech Prosody, 2022 - isca-archive.org
A new approach to constructing a prosodic grammar of Mandarin read speech which
describes the mapping from syntactic patterns to prosodic patterns is proposed. It first …

Sentence-final particles in Singapore English: Are they pragmatic or phonological?

JS German, L Prévot - Speech Prosody 2016, 2016 - hal.science
While the use of sentence-final discourse particles (SFPs) is typically linked to specific
interactional or social functions, their realization is also associated with particular positional …

Stress, tonal alignment, and phrasal position in Singapore English

JS German, AJ Chong - Tonal Aspects of Language 2018 (TAL 2018), 2018 - hal.science
Within a language, the way that f0 marks stressed syllables can depend on phrasal position.
In this study, we examine how the relationship between tonal alignment and stress in …

The evolution of word prosody in the Papuan languages of Eastern Timor

TM Heston - Diachronica, 2018 - jbe-platform.com
Word prosody and sentence-level intonation undergo complex interactions through time. In
this study, I focus on the effects of intonation on the development of word prosody in two …

Variability in tonal realisation in Singapore English intonation

AJ Chong, JS German - … Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019), 2019 - hal.science
The intonational melody of Singapore English has previously been described as consisting
of a series of repeated downstepped rises over an utterance. The exact nature of this rise …