The paper reports on a web-based perception experiment investigating the perceptual prominence of seven attested nuclear pitch accent types plus deaccentuation in German. Unlike previous studies which link prominence judgments of accents to aspects of intonational meaning, the present study directly asks for the perceived degree of prosodic prominence. Results reveal gradual differences between...

Prosody fulfills a variety of functions in dialogues. Our study examines the relationship between different levels of perceived prominence of syllables and the linguistic and paralinguistic categories accent and emphasis which are conveyed prosodically. It is still unclear, how a notational system might look like that is able to capture the fine–grained differences between both. The notion of p...

This paper investigates prominence patterns in English nounnoun compounds. A perception experiment is presented in which naive listeners rated the prominence relation between the two elements. It is found that either the first or the second element of the stimuli is perceived as more prominent, and that the distinction can be considered categorical. Pertinent statistics are discussed that can a...

Prominence has been widely studied on the word level and the syllable level. An extensive study comparing the two approaches is missing in the literature. This study investigates how word and syllable prominence relate to each other in German. We find that perceptual ratings based on the word level are more extreme than those based on the syllable level. The correlations between word prominence...

Materials and methods This study included 300 human adult skulls, which were obtained from the Forensic Osteology Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University. The metopic suture and supraorbital ridge were observed macroscopically. The degree of supraorbital ridge was classifi ed into 4 levels. The 1st level had a massive prominence, the 2nd showed fair prominence, the 3rd indic...

This paper presents a study on the automatic detection of prosodic prominence in continuous speech, with particular reference to American English, but with good prospects of application to other languages. Perceptual prosodic prominence is supported by two different prosodic features: pitch accent and stress. Pitch accent is acoustically connected with fundamental frequency (F0) movements and o...

I investigate the acoustic correlates of prosodic prominence and boundary, as they are perceived by naïve listeners, in spontaneous speech from American English (Buckeye corpus). Prosodic prominence and phrasing serve different functions in speech communication: prosodic phrase boundaries demarcate speech chunks that typically cohere semantically, while prominences encode focus and possibly als...

Hardware prominence after plate fixation for clavicle fracture is a common complication. The aim of the study was to perform a 3D analysis of the prominence of different types of superior clavicle plates. An automated fitting of 3 straight and 10 precontoured plates was performed on 52 3D-CT-scan reconstructed cadaver clavicles. The mean and maximum bone-plate distance and maximum prominence wa...