Prosodic structure has been assumed to serve as a frame for articulation, so that phonetic
shaping of abstract phonological representations is fine‐tuned as a function of the prosodic …

Speech prosody, the melodic and rhythmic properties of a language, plays a critical role in
our everyday communication. Researchers have identified unique patterns of prosody that …

One important feature of linguistic communication is that some parts of utterances are more
prominent than others. Prominence as a perceptual feature of spoken language is …

It has already been observed that there is no one-to-one mapping between intonational
categories and the pragmatic functions they are used to express. For instance, in German a …

Recent empirical studies have highlighted the large degree of analytic flexibility in data
analysis that can lead to substantially different conclusions based on the same data set …

Focus is known to be expressed by a wide range of phonetic cues but only a few studies
have explicitly compared different phonetic variables within the same experiment. Therefore …

In this contribution we explore the hypothesis of an interaction between speaker-and listener-
specific strategies in the encoding and decoding of intonational contrasts Intonational …

The primary goal of this work is to examine prosodic structure as expressed concurrently
through articulatory and manual gestures. Specifically, we investigated the effects of phrase …

The framework of dynamical systems offers powerful tools to understand the relation
between stability and variability in human cognition in general and in speech in particular. In …

In this study we investigate the timing of word-initial clusters and its relation to distinct
phonological syllable parses in Tashlhiyt Berber and Polish. To this end, we use …