Gamification of behavioral experiments has been applied successfully to research in a
number of disciplines, including linguistics. We believe that these methods have been …

We report an investigation of how individual listeners' characteristics influence the
assessment of prominence. Following the RPT paradigm, 82 Standard Southern British …

Previous studies reported mixed findings regarding the details of the acoustic correlates of
focus, as well as the relationship between information structure and pitch accent types in …

A popular paradigm for studying prominence is Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT), in which
linguistically untrained participants listen to utterances and mark on a transcript words they …

This thesis investigates the phonetic realisation of focal prominence in three Chinese
languages: Cantonese, Chengdu Mandarin, and Changsha Xiang. These languages, each …

Research on a variety of languages has shown that tonal alignment in pitch accents can be
influenced by segmental factors such as syllable structure, onset type, and phonological …

It is well established that focus is prosodically marked in English. The components of
information structure such as focus, topic, contrast, and information status (eg, given, new …

Perceiving prosodic prominence, like perceiving other aspects of speech, emerges from
some combination of (a) bottom-up cues related to the signal and (b) top-down cues related …