qeysar aminpour (1959-2007) is one of the outstanding figures in contemporary persian poetry. one of the prominent aspects of his poetic style is the distinct language of his poems in the three areas of lexicon, compositions and syntax. relying on these three areas, this study attempted to investigate the most important linguistic features of his poetry in order to figure out special style of t...

Native-like production of intonational prominence is important for spoken language competency. Non-native speakers may have trouble producing prosodic variation in a second language (L2) and thus, problems in being understood. By identifying common sources of production error, we will be able to aid in the instruction of L2 speakers. In this paper we present results of a production study design...

This paper reports on a study of lexical and postlexical prominence asymmetries in Tashlhiyt Tamazight (Berber), a language that is renowned for its typologically rare prosodic structures. Carrier phrases were designed to elicit the presence or absence of a postlexical tone on the target word. Contrary to previous reports on the language, measures of acoustic durations and intensity reveal no c...

In sign language research, technically it has been possible to investigate prominence around a unit of sign movements that realizes strong visual impression. Based on the researches of speech prominence, this study proposes techniques to delimit a sequential hand-movement into small units, and investigates the prominence by the comparisons of physical properties on each unit between emphasized ...

This paper compares prominence that listeners perceive with actual articulatory prominence. We calculated phrasal boundaries from articulatory patterns using an algorithm of the C/D model, and compared those calculated boundaries with perceived boundaries. The jaw displacements, measures of prominence, were measured using EMA; articulatory boundaries were derived from a C/D model algorithm. The...

This paper presents the results of a perception study investigating the location of prosodic prominence in the Māori language. 40 Māori-familiar participants listened to Māori sentences from speakers of three age groups with birthdates spanning over 100 years. In light of older speakers’ comments that the language has changed, the participants’ perception of syllabic prominence on a phrase-by-p...

Streefkerk [6] defines prominence as the perceptually outstanding parts in spoken language. An optimal rating scale for syllable prominence has not been found yet. This paper evaluates a 4point, an 11-point, a 31-point, and a continuous scale for the rating of syllable prominence and gives support for scales using a higher number of levels. Priming effects found by Arnold, et al. [1], could onl...

Automatic detection of prominence in speech is an important task for many spoken language applications. However, most previous approaches rely on the availability of a corpus that is annotated with prosodic labels in order to train classifiers, therefore lacking generality beyond high-resourced languages. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for the automatic detection of sentence prominence ...