Author: Agatha Martha Cornelia SluijterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accents and accentuation
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Phonetic Correlates of Stress and Accent
Author: Agatha Martha Cornelia SluijterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accents and accentuation
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Study of Word Stress and Accent
Author: Rob GoedemansPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107164036
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
Explores the nature of stress and accent patterns in natural language using a diverse range of theories, methods and data.
The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody
Author: Carlos GussenhovenPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198832230
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 957
Book Description
This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.
Stress and Non-Stress Accent
Author: Mary E. BeckmanPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110874024
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Word Stress
Author: Harry van der HulstPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107039517
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A team of world-renowned phonologists present new perspectives on word stress, exploring stress as a phenomenon, data selection, and analysis.
Studies in Stress and Accent
Author: Larry M. HymanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accents and accentuation
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Prosody: Theory and Experiment
Author: M. HornePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401594139
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This volume deals with a wide range of topics including the representation of tones and intonation, evidence for and constraints on prosodic phrasing, prosodic boundary detection, articulatory dynamics of stress, timing in speech, and prosodic correlates of speaking style, as well as the perception of prosodic prominence. The book offers investigators in all areas of speech communication a comprehensive and coherent presentation of contemporary prosodic research.
Dimensions of Phonological Stress
Author: Jeffrey HeinzPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107102812
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Top researchers explore the nature of stress and accent patterns in languages, especially the nature of their representations and how people learn them.
Intonation and Prosodic Structure
Author: Caroline FéryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107008069
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosody from a phonological perspective, for advanced students and researchers in phonology.
Relevant Acoustic Phonetics of L2 English
Author: Ettien KoffiPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000340090
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harvey Fletcher pioneered a psychoacoustic methodology for doing so. Another physicist, von Bekesy, demonstrated clinically that Fletcher’s theory of Critical Bands was anchored in anatomical and auditory reality. Fletcher’s and Bekesy’s approach to intelligibility has revolutionized contemporary understanding of the processes involved in encoding and decoding speech signals. Their insights are applied in this book to account for the intelligibility of the pronunciation of 67 non-native speakers from the following language backgrounds –10 Arabic, 10 Japanese, 10 Korean, 10 Mandarin, 11 Serbian and Croatian "the Slavic Group," 6 Somali, and 10 Spanish speakers who read the Speech Accent Archive elicitation paragraph. Their pronunciation is analyzed instrumentally and compared and contrasted with that of 10 native speakers of General American English (GAE) who read the same paragraph. The data-driven intelligibility analyses proposed in this book help answer the following questions: Can L2 speakers of English whose native language lacks a segment/segments or a suprasegment/ suprasegments manage to produce it/them intelligibly? If they cannot, what segments or suprasegments do they use to substitute for it/them? Do the compensatory strategies used interfere with intelligibility? The findings reported in this book are based on nearly 12,000 measured speech tokens produced by all the participants. This includes some 2,000 vowels, more than 500 stop consonants, over 3,000 fricatives, nearly 1,200 nasals, about 1,500 approximants, a over 1,200 syllables onsets, as many as 800 syllable codas, more than 1,600 measurement of F0/pitch, and duration measurements of no fewer than 539 disyllabic words. These measurements are in keeping with Baken and Orlikoff (2000:3) and in accordance with widely accepted Just Noticeable Difference thresholds, and relative functional load calculations provided by Catforda (1987).