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Kugler, Frank; Genzel, Susanne – Language and Speech, 2012
This article presents data from three production experiments investigating the prosodic means of encoding information structure in Akan, a tone language that belongs to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family, spoken in Ghana. Information structure was elicited via context questions that put target words either in wide, informational, or…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Foreign Countries, Pragmatics, Linguistic Theory
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de Mareuil, Philippe Boula; Rilliard, Albert; Allauzen, Alexandre – Language and Speech, 2012
This study focuses on prosodic evolution in the French news announcer style, based on acoustic and perceptual analysis of French audiovisual archives. A 10-hour corpus covering six decades of broadcast news is investigated automatically. Two prosodic features, which may give an impression of emphatic style, are explored: word-initial stress and…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Suprasegmentals, Vowels, French
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Huang, Becky H.; Jun, Sun-Ah – Language and Speech, 2011
This study reports an exploratory analysis of the age of arrival (AoA) effect on the production of second language (L2) prosody. Three groups of Mandarin-speaking immigrants (N = 10 in each group) with varying AoA in the United States and ten native speakers of English as controls participated in the study. All participants read a paragraph of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers, North American English