Phonetics is the area of linguistics that studies the production and perception of speech
sounds. Research in the past decades has clearly shown that speech is extremely variable …

The article describes the contrastive possibilities of alignment of high accents in three
Romance varieties, namely, Central Catalan, Neapolitan Italian, and Pisa Italian. The …

This second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational
phonology since the 1970s, including new material on research developments since the mid …

Der Beitrag stellt eine aktualisierte Version des Gesprächsanalytischen
Transkriptionssystems (GAT) dar. Nachdem GAT seit seiner Erstvorstellung im Jahr 1998 in …

We argue for a perspective on bilingual heritage speakers as native speakers of both their
languages and present results from a large-scale, cross-linguistic study that took such a …

This paper introduces the German text-to-speech synthesis system MARY. The system's
main features, namely a modular design and an XML-based system-internal data …

In this article we will explore the consequences of adopting recent proposals by Chomsky,
according to which the syntactic derivation proceeds in terms of phases. The notion of phase …

An accessible introduction to the phonetic analysis of speech corpora, this workbook-style
text provides an extensive set of exercises to help readers develop the necessary skills to …

Based on an innovative corpus-based approach, this book offers a comprehensive survey of
the phonological and phonetic properties of L2 speech in English and German. The first part …

Three eye-tracking experiments investigated the role of pitch accents during online
discourse comprehension. Participants faced a grid with ornaments, and followed …