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 …

In the field of bilingual language development, studies of first language (L1) attrition and
second language (L2) attainment have traditionally been two separate streams of research …

The challenge of prosodic annotation is reflected in commonly reported variability among
trained annotators in the assignment of prosodic labels. The present study examines …

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 …

The present study tests a prediction from the prevalent Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) model
of American English intonation: the existence of distinct phonological contrasts among …

Two experiments test how phrasal prominence influences listeners' perception of vowel
contrasts and how prominence information and vowel formant cues are integrated in …

This study explored the contexts in which native Japanese listeners have difficulty identifying
prosodic focus. Using a 4AFC identification task, we compared native Japanese listeners' …

Recent work has shown that contrastive accenting plays a crucial role in discourse
processing, causing listeners to activate alternatives to focused words and/or suppress non …

Cross-linguistic perception is known to be molded by native and second language (L2)
experiences. Yet, the role of prosodic patterns and individual characteristics on how …

In this paper, we investigate how information status is encoded paradigmatically and
syntagmatically via prosodic prominence in German. In addition, we consider individual …