Much of what is known about prosody is based on native speaker intuitions of idealized
speech, or on prosodic annotations from trained annotators whose auditory impressions are …

The challenges that EFL learners, teachers and teacher educators are facing today have
increased considerably with the comparatively new role of English as the lingua franca of …

This dissertation describes the segmental and prosodic phonology of Fataluku (IPA
[fataluku], ISO 639-3 ddg), a highly underdocumented Papuan language in East Timor …

Linguistic experiments have investigated the nature of F0 span and level in cross-linguistic
comparisons. However, only few studies have focused on the elaboration of a general …

Q'eqchi'is one of many Mayan languages spoken in Guatemala, CA This study provides the
first Tone Break and Indices (ToBI) transcription system (Silverman et al., 1992) labeling of …

The development of the cochlear implant (CI) has provided access to speech for many
people with profound hearing impairment. While access to coarse spectral information …

Word prosody and sentence-level intonation undergo complex interactions through time. In
this study, I focus on the effects of intonation on the development of word prosody in two …

Prosody is used in both phonetics and speech synthesis systems in the literature. Pitch
information is one of the extensively used prosodic information. This paper aims at …