The iambic-trochaic law (ITL) states that repeating sounds with an intensity contrast are perceived as binary groups with initial prominence (trochees) and those with a durational contrast with final prominence (iambs). Although the ITL has been empirically supported, it is not clear whether it is due to universal cognitive mechanisms or whether language-specific prosodic properties affect list...

In this paper we examine different approaches to obtain judgments of perceptual prominence. We discuss different prominence scales, the influence of the linguistic unit on which prominence is rated and the normalisation of prominence judgments. We propose the use of a multilevel scale for obtaining prominence judgments. It seems that naı̈ve listeners can rate word prominence better than syllable...

In Hungarian, focussed elements occur in certain syntactic positions. Because of this limitation, prominence marking by means of prosody is less salient than in languages where focus can be expressed by accent shift without changes in word order. In this study, we examined Hungarian utterances that were identical in their segmental structure, but differed with regard to their semantic and pragm...

In this paper we examine different approaches to obtain judgments of perceptual prominence. We discuss different prominence scales, the influence of the linguistic unit on which prominence is rated and the normalisation of prominence judgments. We propose the use of a multilevel scale for obtaining prominence judgments. It seems that naı̈ve listeners can rate word prominence better than syllable...

deviation is one of the most effective methods of prominence and abnormal in literature, poetry and prose; this lets to poets and writers to change the system of typical language and express their meanings and concepts in the new form and new expression and absorb. jabran khalil jabran expressed his implecations in a graceful form with music of arrangement words in different expression using va...

The use of repeated expressions to establish coreference allows an investigation of the relationship between basic processes of word recognition and higher level language processes that involve the integration of information into a discourse model. In two experiments on reading, we used eye tracking and event-related potentials to examine whether repeated expressions that are coreferential with...

Accurate prominence annotation benefits many spoken language understanding tasks as well as speech synthesis. In this work, we conduct a thorough study using acoustic prosodic cues for prominence detection in speech. This study is different from previous work in several aspects. In addition to the widely used prosodic features, such as pitch, energy, and duration, we introduce the use of cepstr...

Research on global pitch trends has shown that statements and different types of questions in Dutch all display distinct patterns, and suggests that these may be influenced by the presence of accentual prominence on wh-words and whether syntactic cues to interrogativity are present [11]. This implies that there would be different pitch trends in a language such as Korean which lacks accentual p...

The paper reports the first study that explicitly distinguishes the phonetic correlates of sentence accents from those of word stress in Finnish (stress acted as the baseline whose correlates as against of stress were not investigated). Sentences were constructed that successfully elicited no accent, moderate accent, and strong accent on target words. The three degrees of prominence were clearl...