Cracking prosody in articulatory phonology

D Byrd, J Krivokapić - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Articulatory Phonology advances an account of phonological structure in which dynamically
defined vocal tract tasks—gestures—are simultaneously and isomorphically units of …

[HTML][HTML] Sound, structure and meaning: The bases of prominence ratings in English, French and Spanish

J Cole, JI Hualde, CL Smith, C Eager, T Mahrt… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Phonology, phonetics, and signal-extrinsic factors in the perception of prosodic prominence: Evidence from Rapid Prosody Transcription

J Bishop, G Kuo, B Kim - Journal of Phonetics, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Crowd-sourcing prosodic annotation

J Cole, T Mahrt, J Roy - Computer Speech & Language, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Empathy influences how listeners interpret intonation and meaning when words are ambiguous

N Esteve-Gibert, AJ Schafer, B Hemforth, C Portes… - Memory & …, 2020 - Springer
This study examines how individual pragmatic skills, and more specifically, empathy,
influences language processing when a temporary lexical ambiguity can be resolved via …

Focus projection and prenuclear accents: Evidence from lexical processing

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 …

Exploiting the speech-gesture link to capture fine-grained prosodic prominence impressions and listening strategies

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 …

Individual empathy levels affect gradual intonation-meaning mapping: The case of biased questions in Salerno Italian

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 …

Foxes, deer, and hedgehogs: The recall of focus alternatives in Vietnamese

A Tjuka, HTT Nguyen, K Spalek - 2020 - edoc.hu-berlin.de
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 …

Paradigmatic and syntagmatic effects of information status on prosodic prominence–evidence from an interactive web-based production experiment in German

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 …