In this article, I will discuss the phenomenon of (linguistic) stress as it applies to words. Units that are larger than words (such as phrases and sentences) can be said to have stress too, but I will not touch on these larger units here. Right away, in section 2, I propose to shift our attention to the notion of accent, which I define as more fundamental than stress. Stress, as we will see, c...

In this study, we investigated the relationship between turntaking and prosody. We considered that to interact smoothly in real-time communication, speakers must show presignals to turn-taking as prosodic features before turn edges. We attempted to discriminate the turn change by the decision tree method using only prosodic features in turn-final accentual phrases that include earlier positions...

This study aims at examining the accentual and phrasing properties of a variety of L2 French commonly called “Français Fédéral”, a variety of French spoken in Switzerland by speakers who have a Swiss-German dialect as a mother tongue. For this, we compared the data of 4 groups of 4 speakers: 2 groups of 4 native French speakers from Neuchâtel and from Paris, and 2 groups of 4 Swiss-German Frenc...

This paper investigates the intonation of L3 French, produced by six bilingual learners (ages: 15–17) who speak Turkish as a heritage language (HL) along with German and same-aged monolingual learners. We examined corpus read speech in two respects: first, we determined number accentual phrases (APs) and, second, extracted F0 values for each segment, normalized them, calculated deviations from ...

This study tested whether an Intermediate Phrase (ip) right boundary is interpreted by French listeners as cueing a major syntactic break (e.g. NounPhrase/Verb Phrase break) or also a weaker syntactic break (e.g. Noun Phrase internal boundary). Pairs of Noun Phrases, whose segmental structure was identical up to the sixth syllable, but differing in the potential placement of either an Accentual...

______________________________________________________ Regional Variations of Speech Rhythm in French: In Search of Lost Times This paper addresses the relevance of speech rhythm acoustic measures for the description of some standard, regional and contact varieties of French. First, the limitation of conventional speech rhythm measures (e.g. %V, ∆C or PVI) for the description of French regional...

F0 values of filled pauses (FP) in the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese were analyzed to examine the mechanism by which the F0 heights of FP were determined. Statistical analyses of the F0 values of FP occurring in between two full-fledged accentual phrases (AP) revealed correspondence between the occurrence timing of FP and the F0 height. Based upon this finding, 5 models of F0 prediction were p...

This study proposes a framework of automatic analysis and recognition of accentual patterns. In the first place we present the results of analyses which aimed at identification of acoustic cues signaling prominent syllables and different pitch accent types distinguished at the surface-phonological level. The resulting representation provides a framework of analysis of accentual patterns at the ...

Foreign accents in second language (L2) production are caused by interference from the phonological system and phonetic realization of the speaker’s first language (L1), including both segmental and prosodic features. This paper examines the intonation structure of Seoul Korean and its realization by American English speakers. Four English speakers of Korean, differing in fluency, and two Korea...