There is increasing evidence that many languages encode prosodic focus not only with
phonetic variations in the focused component itself, but also with a reduction of pitch range …

One of the most important acoustic correlates of prosodic focus is post-focus compression
(PFC)—the reduction of pitch range and amplitude of all post-focus components in an …

This article critically evaluates the notion of contrast and discusses the role that contrast has
been claimed to have in grammar. It argues that a precise understanding of grammatical …

The investigation of acoustic correlates of word stress is a prominent area of research. The
literature is rife with studies of the acoustic exponents of what is often referred to as stress …

Variability has been one of the major challenges for both theoretical understanding and
computer synthesis of speech prosody. In this paper we show that economical …

This paper reports an experimental investigation of the prosodic encoding of topic and focus
in Mandarin by examining disyllabic subject nouns elicited in four discourse contexts. These …

Previously post-focus compression (PFC)-the lowering of fundamental frequency (F0) and
intensity of post-focal words to below those of the same words in identical sentences with …

Prosody refers to all suprasegmental aspects of speech, including pitch, duration, amplitude,
and voice quality, that are used to make lexical and post-lexical contrasts. Tone refers to …

This study investigates what acoustic parameters are relevant in terms of production and
perception of focus in Turkish. Results from acoustic analyses shows that speakers do not …

This paper presents findings of the first systematic acoustic analysis of focus prosody in
Hijazi Arabic (HA), an under-researched Arabic dialect. A question-answer paradigm was …