Language and Speech articles from June 2002

Language and Speech archives from June 2002

Informative prosodic boundaries *.
June 1, 2002... Abstract In principle, a prosodic boundary in an utterance might affect its interpretation in a local, context-independent fashion. In a right-branching language like English, the presence of a large prosodic boundary might signal the end...

Identification of regional varieties by intonational cues. An experimental study on Hamburg and Berlin German *.
June 1, 2002... Abstract Two experiments examined the commonly held belief that regional varieties of German can be identified by intonational features alone. In both experiments, listeners were presented with regional intonational contours of German. In...

Prosodic finality and sentence type in French *.
June 1, 2002... Abstract Prosodic boundaries are marked in speech by modifications to dimensions such as F0, duration, and segmental quality. The experiment reported here tests the hypothesis that modifications at the end of a prosodic domain may be...

Early sound patterns in the speech of two Brazilian Portuguese speakers *.
June 1, 2002... Abstract Sound patterns in the speech of two Brazilian-Portuguese speaking children are compared with early production patterns in English-learning children as well as English and Brazilian-Portuguese (BP) characteristics. The relationship...