This study examines the role of pitch and final lengthening in German intonation phrase
boundary (IPB) perception. Since a prosody-related event-related potential (ERP) …

Previous accounts of speech rhythm focus mainly on duration. For example, the normalised
Pairwise Variability Index for vocalic intervals (nPVI-V) quantifies relative duration …

Speakers break their otherwise continuous speech stream into meaningful segments, the
edges of which are marked by audible cues such as pauses, rate changes and pitch …

Results of two perception experiments suggest that using timing measures alone to compute
prosodic structure misses valuable information from pitch. Previous research showed that …

Methods: Subjects indicated whether X was closer in time to A or B• explicitly directed to
ignore pitch• 2 orders (ascending & descending), 2 groups of subjects (N= 31) Results …

Abstract Previous research (eg, Cutler, Perception & Psychophysics, 20, 55-60, 1976) has
shown that detection of the initial phoneme of a word is speeded when the word is …

Perception of duration is known to be affected by a variety of contextual factors, including
pitch. It has also long been observed that rhythmic grouping can affect perceived duration …

Prosody is a rich source of information that heavily supports spoken language
comprehension. In particular, prosodic phrase boundaries divide the continuous speech …