This study investigates the relations between the degree of prominence and articulatory-prosodic cues in emotional speech. In particular, this study considers articulatory parameters driven from the Converter/Distributor (C/D) model. The goal is to obtain a better understanding of the link among syllable magnitude in the C/D model, the empirical way to measure it in literature, and syllable-lev...

The present study mainly investigates the prominence patterns of focus in Standard Chinese (Hereinafter, SC). The focus is classified into three types, i.e., single focus with various kinds (whquestion induced focus, shi-marked focus and lianmarked focus); double focus with various placements (adjacent and non-adjacent constituents); multiple focus with various distributions (adjacent and non-a...

The culminative nature of stress has led to three common assumptions about its representation. These are (i) that it should allow for an unbounded continuum of prominence levels (the INFINITY assumption); (ii) that it should characterise prominence levels as relative to nearby weaker or stronger prominence levels, not as levels that are phonetically interpretable in isolation (the RELATIVITY as...

Since Bolinger’s [1] discovery that pitch cues accentual prominence in English, a tension has arisen between two strategies: equating accent with pitch excursions and relying on perception for identifying accented words. This paper investigates the relation between prominence judgments from untrained listeners and accentual labels produced by trained transcribers. Naïve speakers of English, Spa...

The relationship between a reeexive and its antecedent is characterized by (a) a locality condition, and (b) a syntactic prominence condition. In Chomsky (1981) locality is deened in terms of governing category, and syntactic prominence is via c-command. In this article I show that, to account for the long-distance binding properties of complex reeexive ta-zijì3s-slef' in Chinese, which cast do...