The major goal of the present study is to provide a contribution to the enterprise of
increasing the ties between phonology and phonetics within linguistic theory. With this goal …

There is converging evidence that infants are sensitive to prosodic cues from birth onwards
and use this kind of information in their earliest steps into the acquisition of words and …

Abstract Die Hauptthese dieser Dissertation ist, dass Nord-Sotho keinen obligatorischen
Gebrauch von grammatischen Mitteln zur Markierung von Fokus macht, weder in der Syntax …

The development of Standard Austrian German (SAG; de-AT) is closely linked to the
development of Standard German German (SGG; de-DE) as spoken in Northern Germany …

Edges of prosodie and morphological constituents often behave differently from non-edge
positions, but it is not always clear how such edge-effects are brought about. This paper is a …

Perceptual attunement to one's native language results in language-specific processing of
speech sounds. This includes stress cues, instantiated by differences in intensity, pitch, and …

Recent phonological approaches incorporate phonetic principles in the motivation of
phonological regularities, eg vowel reduction and neutralization in unstressed position by …

In intonation languages, pitch accents are associated with stressed syllables, therefore
accentuation is a sufficient cue to the position of metrical stress in perception. This paper …

The present paper examines glottal stops and the glottalisation of word-initial vowels in
Polish and German. The presence of glottal marking is studied depending on speech style …

Age-related decline in speech perception may result in difficulties partaking in spoken
conversation and potentially lead to social isolation and cognitive decline in older adults. It is …