This paper reports on some experiments and results from ci research project called Prosodic Phrasing in Swedish in which the overall aim has been to investigate and model prosodic aspects of phrasing. A series of prosodic parsing experiments are reported where a prosody expert was given the task of identifying prosodic phrases solely on the basis of a visual representcltion of unknown spoken te...

This paper presents original data in support of a new model of intonational phonology for Malay as spoken in Singapore. Building on the Autosegmental-Metrical approach (Beckman & Pierrehumbert, 1986), we propose that intonational variation in Malay can be explained in terms of underlying sequences of abstract tonal units (H and L), which are aligned to the edges and internal syllables of prosod...

This study addresses the question of the separate contribution of tonal and duration cues in prosodic boundary marking and their effect in syntactic parsing in French. We used pairs of Noun Phrases whose segmental structure was identical but differing in the potential placement of an Accentual Phrase (AP) or Intermediate Phrase (ip) boundary at their right edge. We artificially manipulated the ...

This paper proposes a prosodic structure and the tonal pattern of Georgian, the national language of Georgia. The language has three prosodic units above the Word: Intonation Phrase (IP), Intermediate Phrase (ip), and Accentual Phrase (AP). All these units are marked by a boundary tone, but an AP in Georgian is unique typologically in that it has pitch accent linked to a stressed syllable and p...

This paper is an apparent-time study of a tonogenetic sound change and its effect on the intonational tonal pattern in Seoul Korean. The data were drawn from a speech corpus published by the National Institute of the Korean Language. The study examined 59 sentence-initial Accentual Phrases (AP) read by 118 speakers (born between 1932 and 1984) in the corpus. We measured mean pitch values of syl...

Bidirectional case markers in West African languages, including those of the Songhay family, are morphemes inserted between subject and object NPs that would otherwise be adjacent. They therefore specify both that the NP to the left is a subject, and that the NP to the right is an object, and they cannot be bracketed uniquely with either. This is shown by the fact that these morphemes are absen...

This work investigates the tonal structure of the focal accent in narrow focus statements of Neapolitan Italian. The formal properties of this accent lend themselves to two competing analyses. Specifically, this accent could equally be described as a HL accentual fall or as a LH rise. The two analyses were evaluated on the basis of a set of utterances containing focus constituents with varying ...