This paper tries to explore the relationship between pitch prominence and tonal typology by examining pitch behavior of the 3 tone, a low register tone, in different accent contexts under Mandarin Chinese. The primary results obtained so far show that, pitch level of the 3 tone is obviously lowered in focal condition, which is mainly manifested by lowering the L-point value of its F0, rather th...

The aim of this study was to investigate whether narrow corrective focus causes stronger intonational emphasis than narrow new information focus. This research question was tested for Estonian, a free word order language where an object noun phrase at the beginning of the sentence (e.g. OVS word order) is claimed to be in structural focus position. We predicted greater pitch prominence for sent...

Production and perception experiments with native speakers of Russian, a free word order language, show that prosody and change in word order are used to mark discourse-prominent constituents. Concurrent application of these cues to prominence is possible, as evident from distinctively higher f0 and intensity maxima, and duration values associated with exsitu words, as well as their higher visi...

There are numerous studies devoted to the typological examination of stress (e.g. Hyman 1977, Liberman & Prince 1977, Hayes 1980, 1995, Prince 1983, Halle & Vergnaud 1987, Goedemans and van der Hulst 1996, Elenbaas & Kager 1999, Gordon 2002, Hyde 2002, Heinz 2009, van der Hulst & Goedemans 2009, van der Hulst et al 2010). This research program has produced many interesting observations and theo...

Automatic detection of word prominence can provide valuable information for downstream applications such as spoken language understanding. Prior work on automatic word prominence detection exploit a variety of lexical, syntactic, and prosodic features and model the task as a sequence labeling problem (independently or using context). While lexical and syntactic features are highly correlated wi...

This article reviews the isomorphism which may or not have existed between speech-prosodic principles pertaining in Old English (OE) and later Englishes, metrical patterns evident both OE (early) Middle lyric poetry. A key question is this: was there rules of right-edge phrasal prominence speech purely prominence? Recent theories prominence, particularly those Russom (2017 earlier works) show t...

The language sciences—Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Computational Linguistics—have not been broadly represented at the Cognitive Science Society meetings of the past 30 years, but they are an important part of the heart of cognitive science. This article discusses several major themes that have dominated the controversies and consensus in the study of language and suggests the most pressi...