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Theses in Linguistics at UND: Dyrud 2001 The acoustic properties of prominent and non-prominent syllables were compared, controlling for the effects of intonation (especially the presence vs. absence of prominence-lending pitch movements), by recording words in both [+focus] and [-focus] contexts. The question that this study seeks to answer is whether there is evidence for stress accent (in Beckman's terminology) in Hindi-Urdu; that is, is word stress in Hindi-Urdu reflected in one or more acoustic properties, independent from the pitch fluctuations that are due to intonation? However, it was also found that focus interacts with stress: for two minimal pairs in the data, stress showed a significant effect on both pitch and duration in the [+focus] condition, but on neither pitch nor duration in the [-focus] condition. www.und.nodak.edu /dept/linguistics/theses/2001Dyrud.htm   (352 words)

Francis Nolan's Home Page Francis Nolan is Professor of Phonetics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, and Head of Department. For information about the Department of Linguistics, its research, and its courses of study including the one-year MPhil in Linguistics and PhD research, click here Currently my research interests also include intonation and other aspects of prosody (including dialect differences in intonation), and connected speech processes, the phonetic variation which occurs in fluent, natural speech. www.cus.cam.ac.uk /~fjn1   (1485 words)

PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. The same holds true for the conflicting intonation patterns articulating the linguistic unit (the phrase or sentence), and the metric unit (the line). Fourth, there is an exceptionally late peak on the last syllable of the line, exerting a forward-driving "perceptual force." Figures 4 and 5 give the wave plot and intonation contour in more detail. A backward or forward drive toward the boundary is generated when there is some intrusion away from the middle of a perceptual unit, which is the case in early and late peaking, respectively. www.clas.ufl.edu /ipsa/journal/2000_tsur04.shtml   (1485 words)

M. Chan's C899/M. Beckman's L899. Phonetics & Phonology of Mandarin & Non-Mandarin Chinese (Wi 90) Week 4: Reading: Shen (1989) "Interplay of the four citation and intonation in Mandarin Chinese" (Journal of Chinese Linguistics 17:61-73) Shih (1988) "Tone and intonation in Mandarin" (Working Papers of the Cornell Phonetics Laboratory 3:83-109) T 1/23 Presentation of Week 3 homework. Week 9: Reading: Lin, Yan & Sun (1984) "The stress pattern and its acoustic correlate in Beijing Mandarin" (Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, p. R 2/1 In-class fieldwork: Begin survey of word tones in Wu dialects using class informants. people.cohums.ohio-state.edu /chan9/c899.htm   (669 words)

Curriculum Vitae The first autosegmental analysis of English intonation, and the origin of the *-notation of accented tones in intonation analyses. Bridges Between Psychology and Linguistics: A Swarthmore Festschrift for Lila Gleitman, edited by Donna Jo Napoli and Judy Kegl, pp. From Signatures to Finite State Automata Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium. humanities.uchicago.edu /faculty/goldsmith/cv.htm   (1602 words)

LINGUISTICS - Linguistics 2 - Phonology : homepage Phonology and Phonetics in Linguistics 2: In Linguistics 1 you learned some basic terminology for describing phonetic segments, and your learned principles for grouping segments into functionally distinct units (phonemes) in any given language and describing the phonemes in terms of functional classes (features). In Linguistics 2 we pursue both phonetic description and phonological analysis in several ways. · First, we will look at phenomena that can't readily be described in terms of phonetic segments, notably "suprasegmental" features like stress, rhythm, intonation and tone. www.ling.ed.ac.uk /teaching/undergrad/L2/modules/phono   (596 words)

Intonation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Intonation is a term used to cover particular uses of tones in linguistics and music. Intonation can typically be adjusted through changing the bridge position (in effect changing the string length) and also by changing the neck angle (by adjusting the truss rod) or by changing the weight of the strings. For a guitar, intonation refers to the length of the strings relative to the position of the frets. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Intonation   (492 words)

LLT Journal: Signal Analysis Software for Teaching Discourse Intonation First, in theoretical linguistics, there have been important new advances in the theory of intonation and its representation, aided by the growing accessibility of acoustic signal analysis. Intonation is said to be among the first aspects of speech that human infants attend to, react to, and produce themselves (Lieberman, 1986). Intonation, comprised of the so-called suprasegmentals, had not been as extensively researched theoretically or acoustically and was considered a "luxury" in terms of teaching. llt.msu.edu /vol2num1/article4   (5977 words)

intonation. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. Linguistics The use of changing pitch to convey syntactic information: a questioning intonation. A use of pitch characteristic of a speaker or dialect: & could hear authority, the old parish intonation coming back into his voice” (Graham Greene). A manner of producing or uttering tones, especially with regard to accuracy of pitch. www.bartleby.com /61/32/I0203200.html   (129 words)

Encyclopedia: Prosody (linguistics) In linguistics, prosody refers to intonation, rhythm, and vocal stress in speech. Cognitive linguistics is a school of linguistics and cognitive science, which aims to provide accounts of language that mesh well with current understandings of the human mind, and is generally opposed to the more syntactocentric approaches to meaning in generative linguistics. Historical linguistics (also diachronic linguistics or comparative linguistics) is primarily the study of the ways in which languages change over time, by means of examining languages which are recognizably related through similarities such as vocabulary, word formation, and syntax, as well as the surviving records of ancient languages. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Prosody-(linguistics)   (1345 words)

Linguistics Accent (linguistics) An accent is the perceived peculiarities of pronunciation and intonation of a speaker or group of s... Evolutionary linguistics Evolutionary linguistics is the scientific study of the history of the origins of language and... Hui (linguistics) ''The Hui dialects are unrelated to the China. www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/linguistics.html   (1345 words)

Text linguistic models for the study of simultaneous interpreting Text linguistics has emerged from the 1970s and onwards as the study of the property of texts (written or oral) and their uses in communicative interaction. The modern conception of text linguistics is a broad one, encompassing discourse analysis and pragmatics, as well as influences from cognitive sciences, communication studies and artificial intelligence. On the "micro level" we took note of anomalous intonation and mispronunciations, grammatical "errors" and possible interference from the source language in the target language, like changes in word order and other syntactic changes, changes in use of pronouns, lexical changes and mistranslation. www.geocities.com /~tolk/lic/LIC990329.htm   (1915 words)

Linguistics Accent (linguistics) An accent is the perceived peculiarities of pronunciation and intonation of a speaker or group of s... Evolutionary linguistics Evolutionary linguistics is the scientific study of the history of the origins of language and... Exponent (linguistics) An exponent is a phonological manifestation of a morphosyntactic property. www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/linguistics.html   (660 words)

Linguistics 433/633 Terminology II Linguistics 433/633 Terminology II Linguistics 433/633 Terminology II NB: This is a MINIMAL list of terms and definitions that you should be familiar with from the semester. Pitch Accent – A prominence lending peak or trough in the intonation contour of an utterance. Rhyme – The Nucleus + Coda of a syllable www.asel.udel.edu /speech/tutorials/Terminology.html   (660 words)

Prosody LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER In linguistics, prosody includes intonation and vocal stress in speech. Prosody consists of distinctive variations of stress, tone, and timing in spoken language. In vocal music, prosody refers to the way the composer sets the text in the assignment of syllables to notes in the melody to which the text is sung; this is particularly a function of rhythm and is not to be confused with musical form. language.school-explorer.com /info/Prosody   (145 words)

Bibliography Jassem, W. 1987, "Structural units of intonation in the acoustical speech signal". McCormick, S.M. 1982, Vowel harmony and umlaut: implications for a typology of accent. Accent and discourse context: Assigning pitch accent in synthetic speech. www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de /phonetik/joerg/biblio/biblio.html   (14008 words)

Chinese Linguistics Program Professor Kim's Ph.D. was from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her research interests are Korean language pedagogy and second language acquisition, with psycholinguistics an integral part of her research background. Her research background is Japanese linguistics, with core research interests in Japanese syntax, and extending to pedagogical research since joining the Language Pedagogy component in the Department. Her teachers in Chinese linguistics included: Professors Edwin G. Pulleyblank (University of British Columbia), Jerry Norman and Anne Yue-Hashimoto (University of Washington), and faculty members teaching at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Linguistic Institute held one summer at the University of Hawaii, namely, Professors William S-Y. Wang, Ying-che Li, Robert Cheng, and Fang-kuei Li. deall.osu.edu /webdoc/chlxprog.htm   (14008 words)

ULCL - Franconian Tone Festival Gussenhoven, C. and P. van der Vliet 1999: The phonology of tone and intonation in the Dutch dialect of Venlo, Journal of Linguistics 35, 99-135. A fundamental problem is posed by the precise realisation of the tone accents in different positions in the sentence. The tone accents have not yet been studied to a satisfactory degree in any of their aspects. www.let.leidenuniv.nl /ulcl/events/fta.html   (1303 words)

Linguistics 386: Intonation, Rhythm, Stress & Tone Detailed analysis of the stress and intonation patterns of English and their relationship to grammatical functions; phonetic descriptions of rhythm and voice quality are practised and used to analyze speech in various languages. web.uvic.ca /ling/courses/386   (33 words)

SIL Bibliography: USA Review of The intonation of American English, by Pike, Kenneth L. Frantz, Donald G. Review of Linguistic matrices, by Ray, Punya Sloka. Review of Texas linguistic forum 40: working papers in phonetics and phonology, by Doran, Amanda R., Tivoli Majors, and Nisha Merchant Goss, editors. Review of American Sign Language: Linguistic and applied dimensions, by Wilbur, Ronnie B. Fischer-Jorgensen, Eli. www.ethnologue.com /show_country_bibl.asp?name=USA   (33 words)

Prosody (linguistics) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article In (The scientific study of language) linguistics, prosody refers to (Rise and fall of the voice pitch) intonation and (additional info and facts about vocal stress) vocal stress in ((language) communication by word of mouth) speech. Prosody (linguistics) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article The prosodic features of a (A unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme) syllable are called suprasegmental features because they affect all the segments of a syllable. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/prosody_(linguistics).htm   (121 words)

Theses in Linguistics at UND: Dyrud 2001 The question that this study seeks to answer is whether there is evidence for stress accent (in Beckman's terminology) in Hindi-Urdu; that is, is word stress in Hindi-Urdu reflected in one or more acoustic properties, independent from the pitch fluctuations that are due to intonation? According to Beckman (1986), 'stress accent' languages are those that use phonetic attributes other than pitch to indicate a prominent syllable, while 'non-stress accent' languages are those that use only pitch to mark a prominent syllable. However, it was also found that focus interacts with stress: for two minimal pairs in the data, stress showed a significant effect on both pitch and duration in the [+focus] condition, but on neither pitch nor duration in the [-focus] condition. www.und.nodak.edu /dept/linguistics/theses/2001Dyrud.htm   (352 words)

Manfred Krifka: Articles In P. Bosch, R. van der Sandt (eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on Focus and Natural Language Processing, Volume 1: Intonation and Syntax, Working Papers of the Institute for Logic and Linguistics, IBM Scientific Centre, Heidelberg, 1994, 133-152. Semantic and pragmatic conditions for the Dative Alternation Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 4 (2004), 1-32. Linguistics factors, in Rainer Dietrich & Traci Michell Childress (eds), Group Interaction in High Risk Environments, Ashgate Publishing, 75 - 86, 2004. amor.rz.hu-berlin.de /~h2816i3x/articles.html   (352 words)

Publications Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Parasession on the Legacy of Grice, University of California at Berkeley, 442-453. "On the Argument Structure of Primary Complements." Proceedings of the 2002 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association. In Daniel Buring, Matthew Gordon, and Chungmin Lee (eds.), Topic and Focus: Intonation and Meaning: Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Perspectives. www.sfu.ca /~hedberg/Publications.html   (352 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Dynamics of Focus Structure (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) She explores the role of focus structure in Grammar, examining the interface between focus structure and syntax, the semantics of focus structure and the intonation associated with it. The Dynamics of Focus Structure (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) Subjects > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Linguistics > Reference amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0521592178   (352 words)

Glot International, Conferences For more information, the reader is invited to visit the USC Semitic Linguistics Research Archive (http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/linguistics/semitic) and also http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~semconf/, where the abstracts of the talks and some of the papers on which the presentations were based have been made available. It was organised under the banner of the North-West Centre for Linguistics by a group of phonologists from Manchester and Toulouse universities and from Edge Hill College, with co-operation from the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT). The second day of the workshop opened with an invited talk by Mark Steedman (UPenn), "The Surface Grammar of Intonation and Information Structure", based on his recent article (2001, Linguistic Inquiry). www.linguistlistplus.com /glot/conferences5.asp   (10147 words)

Marjorie Chan's C889 Seminar: Intonation and Sentence-Final Particles. (Autumn 1999) "Final particles and expression of modality in modern Chinese." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 9.1:91-115. Erbaugh, Mary S. "Sentence final particles as an Asian areal feature." In: Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference. Development of a Mandarin ("pan-Mandarin") ToBI system and a corresponding one for Cantonese is part of the research supported by an OSU Office of Research interdisciplinary seed grant program, Spoken Language Understanding and Generation (SLUG), which funded the project, "Establishing a Repository of Linguistically Varied, Prosodically Transcribed Spoken Language Data" (nicknamed "Speech Warehouse"). people.cohums.ohio-state.edu /chan9/c889-a99.htm   (3318 words)

Marjorie K.M. Chan: Presentations "Intonation and Sentence-Final Particles in Chinese: A Preliminary Investigation." [See outline for multimedia presentation.] 32nd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL XXXII). "Cantonese Opera and the Growth and Spread of Vernacular Written Cantonese in the Twentieth Century." The 17th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-17), 24-26 June 2005, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California. "Sentence-final particles in Cantonese: The case of je and jek as gender-marked Speech." OSU Linguistics Speakers Series: Spring 1997, Department of Linguistics. people.cohums.ohio-state.edu /chan9/conf.htm   (1728 words)

Southwest Journal of Linguistics: A Phonological Model for Intonation Without Low Tone.(Book Review) (book review) Southwest Journal of Linguistics: A Phonological Model for Intonation Without Low Tone.(Book Review) (book review) As indicated in the title, one of the main tenets of intonational phonology that C-A challenges is the existence of a low tone (L). In A phonological model for intonation without low tone, Mercedes Cabrera-Abreu takes an approach to intonational phonology that deviates significantly from many recent studies, and especially from those within the Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) theory. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_hb1440/is_200212/ai_n5870702   (287 words)

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