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 study examines how individual pragmatic skills, and more specifically, empathy, influences language processing when a temporary lexical ambiguity can be resolved via …
J Bishop - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Theories of Focus Projection claim that a single pitch accent on a verb's argument is sufficient to prosodically mark that verb as part of the focus, negating the need …
P Wagner, A Ćwiek, B Samlowski - Journal of Phonetics, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we explore the possibility to gather perceptual impressions of prosodic prominence by exploiting the strong prosody-gesture link, ie, by having listeners transform a …
R Orrico, M D'imperio - … Phonology: Journal of the Association for …, 2020 - hal.science
The paper investigates the interplay between intonational cues and individual variability in the perceptual assessment of speakers' epistemic bias in Salerno Italian yes-no questions …
In tonal languages, the role of intonation in information-structuring has yet to be fully investigated. Intuitively, one would expect intonation to play only a small role in expressing …
J Lorenzen, S Roessig, S Baumann - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
In this paper, we investigate how information status is encoded paradigmatically and syntagmatically via prosodic prominence in German. In addition, we consider individual …