Articulatory effects of contrastive emphasis on the Accentual Phrase in French

1999 ◽  
Vol 106 (4) ◽  
pp. 2153-2153
Author(s):  
Helene Loevenbruck
Keyword(s):  
Accentual Phrase

Automatic detection of accentual phrase boundaries using prosodic features and phoneme boundaries

1996 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 2848-2848
Author(s):  
Toshio Hirai ◽  
Mari Ostendorf ◽  
Norio Higuchi ◽  
Yoshinori Sagisaka
Keyword(s):  
Automatic Detection ◽  
Prosodic Features ◽  
Accentual Phrase

scholarly journals The Accentual Phrase in Singapore English

Phonetica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam J. Chong ◽  
James Sneed German
Keyword(s):  
Accentual Phrase

scholarly journals Acoustic cues for the Korean stop contrast-dialectal variation

2002 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hansook Choi
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Results ◽  
The Other ◽  
Stop Consonants ◽  
Acoustic Cues ◽  
Dialectal Variation ◽  
Korean Speakers ◽  
Accentual Phrase ◽  
Phonological Contrasts ◽  
Perturbation Effect ◽  
Korean Stops

In this study, cross-dialectal variation in the use of the acoustic cues of VOT and F0 to mark the laryngeal contrast in Korean stops is examined with Chonnam Korean and Seoul Korean. Prior experimental results (Han & Weitzman, 1970; Hardcastle, 1973; Jun, 1993 &1998; Kim, C., 1965) show that pitch values in the vowel onset following the target stop consonants play a supplementary role to VOT in designating the three contrastive laryngeal categories. F0 contours are determined in part by the intonational system of a language, which raises the question of how the intonational system interacts with phonological contrasts. Intonational difference might be linked to dissimilar patterns in using the complementary acoustic cues of VOT and F0. This hypothesis is tested with 6 Korean speakers, three Seoul Korean and three Chonnam Korean speakers. The results show that Chonnam Korean involves more 3-way VOT and a 2-way distinction in F0 distribution in comparison to Seoul Korean that shows more 3-way F0 distribution and a 2-way VOT distinction. The two acoustic cues are complementary in that one cue is rather faithful in marking 3-way contrast, while the other cue marks the contrast less distinctively. It also seems that these variations are not completely arbitrary, but linked to the phonological characteristics in dialects. Chonnam Korean, in which the initial tonal realization in the accentual phrase is expected to be more salient, tends to minimize the F0 perturbation effect from the preceding consonants by taking more overlaps in F0 distribution. And a 3-way distribution of VOT in Chonnam Korean, as compensation, can be also understood as a durational sensitivity. Without these characteristics, Seoul Korean shows relatively more overlapping distribution in VOT and more 3-way separation in F0 distribution.  

scholarly journals Acoustic correlates of the French Accentual Phrase in Lifou (New Caledonia)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catalina Torres ◽  
Janet Fletcher ◽  
Gillian Wigglesworth
Keyword(s):  
New Caledonia ◽  
Acoustic Correlates ◽  
Accentual Phrase

Distribution of accentual phrase medial tones in Seoul Korean

2016 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 3394-3394
Author(s):  
Hyun Ji Yoo ◽  
Sun-Ah Jun
Keyword(s):  
Accentual Phrase

Information structure and intonational accent in Burmese

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-224
Author(s):  
Pavel Ozerov
Keyword(s):  
Information Structure ◽  
Read Aloud ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Tonal Language ◽  
The Real ◽  
Accentual Phrase ◽  
Structural Aspects

Abstract It tends to be assumed that tonal languages do not make use of intonational tones and accent location for the purpose of conveying information structural aspects of the utterance. This study of read-aloud stories in colloquial Burmese shows that this tonal language does resort to this sort of intonational means for information-structuring reasons. The prosody of Burmese exhibits identifiable intonational patterns, which function on the level of accentual phrases. An accentual phrase constitutes the basic prosodic unit, and it is there that we find the real interaction of information structure, intonation and tone. Accentual phrases are organised around a single accent, the location of which depends on information structural factors. Sentences can consist of a single accentual phrase or a few phrases, while the exact partition into such phrases is also motivated by information- and discourse-structuring considerations.

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