A proper understanding of intelligibility is at the heart of effective pronunciation teaching,
and with it, successful teaching of speaking and listening. Far from being an optional'add-it …

This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosodic structure. Taking a
phonological perspective, it shows how morpho-syntactic constituents are mapped to …

One important feature of linguistic communication is that some parts of utterances are more
prominent than others. Prominence as a perceptual feature of spoken language is …

This study tests the influence of acoustic cues and non-acoustic contextual factors on
listeners' perception of prominence in three languages whose prominence systems differ in …

The present study investigated the perception of phrase-level prosodic prominence in
American English, using the Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT) task. We had two basic …

Much of what is known about prosody is based on native speaker intuitions of idealized
speech, or on prosodic annotations from trained annotators whose auditory impressions are …

This article investigates the processing of intonational rises and falls when presented
unexpectedly in a stream of repetitive auditory stimuli. It examines the neurophysiological …

We investigate whether expectations based on syntactic position influence the processing of
intonational boundaries. In a boundary detection task, we manipulated (a) the strength of …

The perception of prosodic prominence is thought to be influenced by multiple competing
factors. Three experiments tested the effects of phonological salience, discourse context and …

This paper looks at the perception of prosodic prominence and the interpretation of focus
position in the unrelated languages, Samoan and English. In many languages, prosodic …