This study examines the development of speech rhythm in second language (L2) learners of
typologically different first languages (L1s) at different levels of proficiency. An empirical …

Recently, the debate about what kind of speech data is most appropriate for linguistic
research has intensified. Generally, with 'laboratory speech'defenders on the one hand and …

This article presents preliminary results indicating that speakers have a different pitch range
when they speak a foreign language compared to the pitch variation that occurs when they …

Accentual prominence has well-documented effects on various phonetic properties,
including timing, vowel quality, amplitude, and pitch. These cues can exist in trading …

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 …

Two parallel acoustic analyses were performed for French and English sibilant sequences,
based on comparably structured read-speech corpora. They comprised all sequences of …

The work presented in this article is part of a larger research project carried out at Saarland
University in Germany. The project is titled “Cross-language and individual differences in the …

A Beszéd–Kutatás–Alkalmazás sorozat nyolcadik köteteként megjelenő mű egy olyan
vizsgálatsorozatot mutat be, amely hiánypótló a magyar beszéddel foglalkozó …

Two experiments are directed towards the 'function'and 'communication'themes of this
volume. They examine the auditory consequences and the communicational effect of …

The use of acoustic properties by French and German speakers in accentuating and de-
accentuating words in accordance with changes in information weighting is examined. In …