This article investigates the role of syntactic and prosodic markedness constraints on the construction of phonological phrases (/or p-phrases) in Catalan. It is shown that the construction of prosodic structure in this language cannot solely rely on syntactic information but rather also has to refer to prosodic markedness constraints which regulate the size and eurhythmicity of phrase constitu...

Besides those durational differences due to the binary quantity opposition in both vowels and consonants, there are many systematic effects on segment durations within the domain of accentual F0 movement in Finnish. Some such effects are shown in this paper, and it is argued that their motivation is to contribute to a uniform realisation of accent irrespective of segmental word structure.

The aim of this research is to examine whether French speakers are able to store and retrieve lexical stress information, using a task in which shapes and Spanish pseudowords are matched. The role of the acoustic correlates of lexical stress in the integration of the accentual information was also studied. Results do not seem to support the hypothesis of ‘stress deafness’.

Two phrases are used, in abbreviated form, to describe these reactions. One is “chemically assisted nuclear reactions” (CANA). Another is “Low energy nuclear reactions” (LENR). The latter may not be accurate. Thus, there is no reason to think that the reactions concerned take place with any but those described by nuclear physicists, though slightly modified by the interactions with the surround...

This paper presents an intonation model which determines intonation contours over intonation phrases. The model is described by four elements: communicative type of an intonation phrase; number of accent groups in it; position of the nuclear accent group in it; and set of target intonation points. Individualization of the model is based on semiautomatic analysis of speaker database. The model w...