Linguistic prosody involves the rhythm and melody of speech. It implicitly enhances or
modifies the explicit meaning of spoken words. The literature on linguistic prosody related to …

Articulatory Phonology advances an account of phonological structure in which dynamically
defined vocal tract tasks—gestures—are simultaneously and isomorphically units of …

Language is more than words: it includes the prosodic features and patterns that we use,
subconsciously, to frame meanings and achieve our goals in our interaction with others …

Recent empirical studies have highlighted the large degree of analytic flexibility in data
analysis that can lead to substantially different conclusions based on the same data set …

Focus is known to be expressed by a wide range of phonetic cues but only a few studies
have explicitly compared different phonetic variables within the same experiment. Therefore …

Speech prosody plays an important role in communication of meaning. The cognitive and
computational mechanisms supporting this communication remain to be understood …

The intonational realization of utterances is generally characterized by regional as well as
inter-and intra-speaker variability in f0. Category boundaries thus remain “fuzzy” and it is …

Prosody is a central part of human speech, with prosodic modulations of the signal
expressing important communicative functions. Yet, the exact mechanisms of how listeners …

The purpose of this study was to expose the trajectory of native speech plasticity in the
context of late bilingualism through analysis of spontaneous speech of Stefanie Graf (SG) …

Intonation plays an integral role in comprehending spoken language. Listeners can rapidly
integrate intonational information to predictively map a given pitch accent onto the speaker's …