This paper reports on the prosody of rhetorical questions (RQs) and information-seeking
questions (ISQs) in German for two question types—polar questions and constituent …

We present two experiments aimed at testing the nature of intonational categories through
the lens of enhancement. In an imitative speech production paradigm, speakers heard a …

In order to investigate the effect of time pressure on the execution of falling and falling-rising
pitch movements on phrase-final syllables, we ran a production experiment with 119 …

Austrian German is known for its distinct prosody when compared with other varieties of
German [11, 13, 8]. However, phonetic data on Austrian German varieties are sparse …

PROSODIC STRUCTURAL EFFECTS ON COARTICULATORY VOWEL NASALIZATION IN
AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH IN COMPARISON TO AMERICAN ENGLISH Page 1 PROSODIC …

ABSTRACT English and German speakers differ in how they realise pitch contours when
there is limited time for voicing. Replicating the pattern found by Grabe [1] for Southern …

This thesis examines the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of questions with
a bouletic bias and how they are prosodically realized by German speakers. Biased …

Research on the second-language (L2) acquisition of intonation is a growing field but only
few studies have (so far) focused on the fine phonetic detail of intonational patterns in the …

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MEXICO PROSODIA DE LA EXPRESIÓN
TEMPRANA DEL FOCO INFORMATIVO Y DEL FOCO CONTRASTIVO EN ESPA Page 1 …

Intonational research has revealed differences in how speakers of different languages and
varieties accommodate suboptimal segmental contexts with little sonorant material [1-6] …