This study tests the influence of acoustic cues and non-acoustic contextual factors on
listeners' perception of prominence in three languages whose prominence systems differ in …

Since the earliest days of phonetics, researchers have noticed that certain speech units
stand out from their environment. This is for example the case of a stressed syllable within a …

Accentual prominence has well-documented effects on various phonetic properties,
including timing, vowel quality, amplitude, and pitch. These cues can exist in trading …

This study investigated the rhythmic differences between first and second language English
from 19 native speakers of American English and an equal number of native speakers of …

This study investigates prosodic correlates of phrasing in Drehu, an Oceanic language from
New Caledonia. The analysis is concerned with the demarcation of prosodic levels in the …

Prosodic cues play a key role in speech processing at multiple levels of linguistic structure.
Despite this, research on the role of prosodic cues in second language (L2) speech …

What is prosody? What is rhythm? How does rhythm vary across languages? How can
rhythm be taught to a second language learner? These are some of the topics addressed in …

Introduction This study explores the features of bilingual neurogenic stuttering and the
potential connection between emotion and articulation rate on speech disfluencies. Method …

While there has been some prior work on what characteristics can increase or decrease the
phonetic prominence of a sign in a signed language, there is not yet an easily obtainable …

Accentuation is encoded by both durational and pitch cues in French. While previous
research agrees that the sole presence of pitch cues is sufficient to encode accentuation in …