Purpose To investigate if, regardless of language background (tonal or non-tonal),
musicians may show stronger CP than non-musicians; To examine if native speakers of …

In recent years there has been increasing recognition of the vital role of intonation in speech
communication. While contemporary models represent intonation—the tune—and the text …

Two experiments explored how pitch influences perception of vowel duration as a cue to
voicing in light of (1) psychoacoustic interactions between pitch and duration and (2) …

Purpose: This study is to investigate whether Cantonese-speaking musicians may show
stronger CP than Cantonese-speaking non-musicians in perceiving pitch directions …

Phonologization is o ten understood to be a process along the pathway of sound change
where low-level physiological or perceptual variation that gives rise to sound patterns is …

We investigated categorical perception of rising and falling pitch contours by tonal and non-
tonal listeners. Specifically, we determined minimum durations needed to perceive both …

This study examines how variation in F0 and intensity impacts the perception of American
English vowels. Both properties vary intrinsically as a function of vowel features in the …

In Catalan,/n/deletes in word-final position when it is preceded by a stressed vowel. In this
paper, we present an analysis that combines the representations of Strict CV and the …

This study examines how the tonal alignment in L1 influences the production of L2 prosody,
focusing on the realization of English L*+ H pitch accent (ie, listing contour) produced by …

This study explores how listeners integrate tonal cues to prosodic structure with their
perception of local speech rate and consequent interpretation of durational cues. In three …