background: bilingual individuals reported that they experience more intensive emotions in native language. this study tries to investigate this claim psychophysiologicaly. the effect of age and second language acquisition context on physiological appearances of first and second languages were also investigated.   methods: 60turkish and kurdish bilinguals were explored. the emotional stimuli em...

Previous research shows that, Spanish speakers studying Japanese face significant difficulties when perceiving Japanese word accent contrasts, particularly between accented and unaccented words. We hypothesise that this is probably due to poorly developed accent categories in the target population. The results of a categorical perception test show great differences between native and non-native...

Previous observation of spontaneous speech has shown consistent use of pitch accent by speakers to mark the contrastive status of words. To investigate how listeners process accentual prominence marking a contrast, eyemovements were monitored while participants listened to spoken directions and searched for ornaments to decorate holiday trees. Eye movement latencies to the target ornament cells...

COMPOSITIONAL approaches to mobile accentuation of the Indo-European type derive the accent of words from the lexically specified accentual features of their constituent morphemes, together with the BASIC ACCENTUATION PRINCIPLE (BAP), which erases all accents but the leftmost one, and assigns an accent to the left edge of an unaccented domain.1 I propose here a compositional analysis in which B...

This study examines the effects of different kinds of focus and of focus constituent size on the phonetic realization of accent peaks in declarative sentences in varieties of continental West Germanic. Speakers were drawn from six populations along the coastal line of the Netherlands, covering Zeelandic Dutch, Hollandic Dutch, West Frisian, Dutch Low Saxon, German Low Saxon, and Northern High G...

This study shows that lexical accent status affects perceived prominence of fundamental frequency (F0) peaks in Japanese. In Japanese, word accent type can be identified from two different sources: lexical accent status and phonetic F0 contour shape. This study examines whether listeners compensate for the accentual boost of an accented word based only on the word’s lexical accent status, when ...