The general literature on the phonetic correlates of stress agrees that duration, and in stress
accent languages, F0 are consistent correlates of stress. However, the role of amplitude …

English speakers' perception of word-stress in Spanish was compared to that of native
Spanish controls. All participants performed a word-stress detection task in Spanish …

This article focuses on the prosody of heritage speakers of a minority variety of French,
spoken in Frenchville, Pennsylvania, since the 1830s. Specifically, this case study focuses …

Recent literature on Spanish intonation assumes that deaccenting occurs when a lexical
item fails to cue stress via an F0 rise or some other pitch movement through its stressed …

Research on the perception of word stress suggests that speakers of languages with non-
predictable or variable stress (eg, English and Spanish) are more efficient than speakers of …

In unaccented contexts, formant frequency differences related to vowel reduction constitute a
consistent cue to word stress in English, whereas in languages such as Spanish that have …

This thesis analyses sound changes that affected the lateral approximant inherited from
Latin in Occitan dialects, in the Romance languages, and in a number of other languages …

European Portuguese (EP) is a language with unpredictable stress. Previous behavioral
studies have shown that without vowel reduction EP adult speakers displayed a stress …

It is unclear whether word stress in a language is stored as part of the word or whether it is
generated by a rule. We test the generativist hypothesis of lexical storage stating that only …

In this chapter the research area of the thesis-intonation modeling is presented. At first, a
brief explanation is given why intonation is important and why there is a need for intonation …