Principles and parameters in prosodic phonology

Intonational phonology and prosodic hierarchy in malay

This paper presents original data in support of a new model of intonational phonology for Malay as spoken in Singapore. Building on the Autosegmental-Metrical approach (Beckman & Pierrehumbert, 1986), we propose that intonational variation in Malay can be explained in terms of underlying sequences of abstract tonal units (H and L), which are aligned to the edges and internal syllables of prosod...

Prosodic Phonology in Lfg: a New Proposal

In this paper we outline a new architecture for modeling the interaction between syntax and prosody. This architecture does not make use of correspondences between separate projections, but it is still consonant with the overall framework of LFG. We propose that prosodic information is developed in a component that operates independently of the syntax, thus allowing easy description of misalign...

The acquisition of prosodic phonology and morphology

Formal Parameters of Phonology - From Government Phonology to SPE

Inspired by the model-theoretic approach to phonology deployed by Kracht [25] and Potts and Pullum [32], I develop an extendable modal logic for the investigation of phonological theories operating on (richly annotated) string structures. In contrast to previous research in this vein [17, 31, 37], I ultimately strive to study the entire class of such theories rather than merely one particular i...

Prosodic parameters in emotional speech

Importance of speech prosody is on the increase as spontaneous interaction between human and machines is asked for. This paper examines how prosody contributes emotions to speech. Major elements which determine the emotion are pitch, tempo, and stress of speech. The last two elements correspond to duration and power of syllables, respectively. We choose ve emotions to be tested; anger, surprise...