The understanding of speech melody, ie, pitch variations related to tone and intonation, can be improved by simultaneously taking into consideration two basic facts: that speech …
First Published in 2002. Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, this is an in-depth investigation of the effects of duration and sonority on contour tone distribution. The …
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Phonological theories commonly analyze speech utterances as composed of hierarchically organized units, such as features/gestures, segments, moras, and syllables, but it is not well …
A central issue in phonology is whether contour segments exist (see, for example, Chomsky and Halle 1968, Campbell 1974, Anderson 1976, Herbert 1975, 1986, Sagey 1986, Steriade …
In Slavic Prosody, first published in 1998, Professor Bethin gives a coherent account of the Slavic languages at the time of their differentiation and relates these developments to issues …
M Gordon - Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored …, 2001 - jbe-platform.com
This paper presents results of a survey of contour tones in 105 languages with lexical tone. Results indicate an implicational hierarchy of tone bearing ability, whereby long vowels are …
M Gordon - Phonetically based phonology, 2004 - torrossa.com
Syllable weight is the property that differentiates syllables with respect to their prosodic behavior. The crucial observation motivating the concept of weight is that certain syllable …
Y Xu, CR Larson, JJ Bauer, TC Hain - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
Recent research has found that while speaking, subjects react to perturbations in pitch of voice auditory feedback by changing their voice fundamental frequency (F 0) to compensate …