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 …

Previous research has shown that post-focus compression (PFC)—the reduction of pitch
range and intensity after a focused word in an utterance, is a robust means of marking focus …

Abstract Post-focus compression (PFC), in which words following focus are compressed in F
0 and intensity, is recently found to be effective in encoding focus. Recent studies find that …

本文选取山东方言西齐区的济南, 聊城, 淄博为实验研究对象, 采用声学实验方法对比分析3
个方言在焦点语音实现方面的异同, 并在实验结果的基础上探讨了山东方言内部焦点实现的共性 …

In a previous production experiment, post-focus compression (PFC) of F0 and intensity were
found to be present in Persian. It was also shown that F0 and duration were the main …

Previous literature on the phonetics of stress in Persian has reported that fundamental
frequency is the only reliable acoustic correlate of stress, and that stressed and unstressed …

This dissertation explores the phonological representation and the phonetic realization of
prosodic prominence in Persian. It comprises two related parts: the first part addresses …

It is usually considered that focus bears communicative function in discourse, each
language has its own ways to realize focus. This paper compares the focus realization of …

Many languages exploit a short vs. long lexical contrast in vowels. In most, if not all of these
languages, the contrast is binary. In Japanese, however, speakers can lengthen vowels to …

This dissertation provides a comprehensive grammatical description of Shughni, an
understudied Eastern Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Contributing …