This study will investigate how non-native speakers of Japanese acquire Japanese accentuation from the viewpoint of the location of the accent nucleus. Hypothetical models for the process of generation and for developmental sequence of interlanguage Japanese accentuation, which is interim accentual system created by learners, will be proposed. The subjects appear to generate their interlanguage...

Accentuation serves to express both the discrete information concerning the accent type of a prosodic word and the continuous information concerning its prominence. This paper examines the latter aspect of accentuation using recorded radio news read by announcers. The amplitude of the accent command was extracted from anF0 contour and used as an index for the level of accentuation. Statistical ...

This study explores the interplay of accentuation in language and in music by examining situations in which implicit accents in a melody conflict with accentual patterns in the lyrics. While previous studies describe resolution of such conflicts in the context of accentuating melodic and rhythmic patterns according to the musical cues that result in incorrect text accentuation, the opposite phe...

Sanskrit is an accented language. The accent is very prominent in Vedic Sanskrit but classical Sanskrit does not make use of it. Accent is a disambiguation device which can help to understand the correct sense of a word. Words in Sanskrit tend to fall in certain grammatical categories like ghañantas, vocatives etc. Words in a category tend to have an accent governed by either a general or a spe...

The present study investigates the voicing contrast in Bulgarian and German. Analyses of two production experiments are reported. In the first experiment logatoms were constructed containing /p, t, k/ and /b, d, g/ in intervocalic position. In the second experiment one Bulgarian and one German sentence were elicited in different focus conditions resulting in different accentuation levels. Based...

This study examines the accentuation of perceived intercategory differences. In Experiment 1, 2 sets of trait adjectives were presented--a neutral set and a set of either favorable traits or unfavorable traits. Ss estimated the mean favorability of each set. The mean favorability of the neutral set was then increased or decreased by adding new traits. As predicted, the estimated mean favorabili...