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Speech prosody: a methodological review
Yi Xu
Journal of Speech Sciences · 1(1), 85-115 · 2011
What the paper examines
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.
Reading it in context
The paper offers a framework for evaluating research methods. It encourages readers to ask how a claim was tested and whether separate strands of prosody research can be connected.
A question to read with
What would make an explanation of a pitch pattern testable and generalizable?
Citation
Yi Xu (2011). Speech prosody: a methodological review. Journal of Speech Sciences, 1(1), 85-115. https://doi.org/10.20396/joss.v1i1.15014
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