2013 · 3(1) · 85-140Fang Liu, Yi Xu, Santitham Prom-on, Alan C. L. Yu
This paper examines how patterns of prosody carry communicative meanings such as focus and sentence modality. It compares prosodic functions with lexical morphemes, drawing on earlier work, production experiments and computational modelling.
Read the reference and reading notes →2014 · 4(1) · 13-40Tom Velghe
This corpus study compares French expressions that introduce a topic with sentence-initial time and place expressions. It examines their prosodic boundaries and how those boundaries relate to the organization of the sentence and discourse.
Read the reference and reading notes →2011 · 1(1) · 85-115Yi Xu
Yi Xu reviews methods used to study prosody, from introspection and transcription through hypothesis testing and modelling. The discussion focuses on how these approaches contribute to knowledge that can generalize beyond an example.
Read the reference and reading notes →2011 · 1(1) · 15-30Carolina Garcia de Carvalho Silva, Maria Cristina Name
The authors investigate how Brazilian Portuguese listeners use phonological phrase boundaries when interpreting an ambiguous word as a verb or an adjective. The paper examines a link between prosodic organization and syntactic interpretation.
Read the reference and reading notes →2012 · 2(2) · 3-21Leticia Corrêa Celeste, Cassius Reis
This paper applies the INTSINT intonation-coding approach to Portuguese. It examines a formal way to represent pitch movements so that patterns can be described and compared in phonetic research.
Read the reference and reading notes →2013 · 3(1) · 141-168Rajiv Rao
This study examines intonation in third-party complaints produced by four speakers of Mexican Spanish. An elicitation task compares complaints addressed to a friend and to a boss, considering pitch patterns and social relationships.
Read the reference and reading notes →2014 · 4(1) · 41-60Tea Prsir, Jean-Philippe Goldman, Antoine Auchlin
This study examines prosodic variation across nine French speaking styles using the C-PhonoGenre corpus. It combines situational descriptions with semi-automatic acoustic analysis and manual annotation to compare patterns across styles.
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