This contribution explores the extent to which rhythm-based features of poetic texts can contribute meaningfully authorship recognition. We show that, although a binary categorization languages as syllabic vs. accentual-syllabic fails fully explain differences. However, once we formalize accentual regularity continuum, our analysis shows that attribution results improve move from most least acc...

The goal of this paper was to determine whether there is a formal difference between high-ending nuclear (IP-final) and prenuclear accents in French. After transcribing the relevant items, we then compared the different accentual and phrasal categories by analyzing, among the other things, the tonal and temporal characteristics of their tonal targets as well as durational characteristics of the...

In many languages, the stress pattern of a complex word resembles the stress of its morphological base or another related word. I refer to this phenomenon as accentual faithfulness (cf. Alderete 1999). A classic example comes from the English word orìginálity, which resembles the accentual profile of its immediate subconstituent oríginal (cf. monomorphemic words like Mèditerránean). This paper ...

Based on results from previous experiments, the hypothesis is are given, with accented syllables in capitals and the relevant tested that there is an interaction between final lengthening and material underlined: accentual lengthening in Dutch, but not in English. To this end, a production experiment was run for both languages with accented (1) a. English and unaccented words in three positions...

Within the Basque-speaking territory, pitch-accent phenomena are found in two areas: Northern Bizkaia and Western Navarre. These two systems differ from each other in important respects. Whereas Northern Bizkaian has a system of the Tokyo Japanese type, the Western Navarrese pitch-accent contrast is reminiscent of those of languages like Swedish. The two systems are separated by a large area wi...

It has been claimed that there are only two prosodic levels – accentual phrase and intonational phrase – in Seoul Korean. This paper demonstrates the necessity for one more phrase level – an intermediate phrase. It is shown that the intermediate phrase is a domain of F0 range reset, and the intermediate phrase level can be distinguished from the accentual phrase and the intonational phrase by i...

Pairs of phonemically identical utterances with different location of an Accentual Phrase boundary were presented to listeners. When duration and/or F0 were swapped between the utterances within a pair, only F0 change elicited changes in listeners’ responses. This effect was found regardless of the distribution of strong consonants which raise Accentual Phrase initial F0. On the other hand, lis...

This research paper is an effort to recontextualize the politics of noun phrases on New York Times editorial published January 7th, 2016 entitled “North Korea Flexes Its Nuclear Muscle”. It examines how recontextualization these can contribute shaping public discourse about political events and ideas. Through a critical analysis, Norman Fairclough’s concept Theo Van Leeuwan’s function language,...