Prominence, the expression of informational weight within utterances, can be signaled by
prosodic highlighting (head-prominence, as in English) or by position (as in Korean edge …

The average predictability (aka informativity) of a word in context has been shown to
condition word duration (Seyfarth, 2014). All else being equal, words that tend to occur in …

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 …

Abstract The prosody of Papuan Malay, spoken in the easternmost provinces of Indonesia, is
not fully described and understood. The limited work available suggests that phrase prosody …

This paper looks at the perception of prosodic prominence and the interpretation of focus
position in the unrelated languages, Samoan and English. In many languages, prosodic …

This study characterized focused tones in Mandarin Chinese through a production
experiment using phone number strings. The results revealed that, although phonation cues …

Many studies showed that prosodic cues such as f0, duration and intensity are used in focus
marking cross-linguistically. Usually, on-focus words exhibit expansions of acoustic cues …

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This study investigates the use of prosodic cues for syntactic ambiguity resolution by first
language (L1) and second language (L2) speakers. In a production experiment, sentences …

Korean and English are both known to show on-focus pitch range expansion and post-focus
pitch range compression (PFC). But it is not clear if this prosodic similarity would make it …