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Stability of tonal alignment: the case of Greek prenuclear accents
Abstract Greek prenuclear accents show a sharp rise that starts near the onset of the accented syllable and peaks on the following unaccented syllable (if there is one). We have presented elsewhere…
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Bi-directional interference in the intonation of Dutch speakers of Greek
  • I. Mennen
  • Linguistics
    J. Phonetics
  • 1 October 2004
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Phonological conditioning of peak alignment in rising pitch accents in Dutch.
TLDR
There is an alignment difference despite a lack of durational difference, which supports the structure-based account, and the effect is reduced compared to experiment 1, showing that time pressure may work against the ideal alignment.
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Phonetic effects of focus and "tonal crowding" in intonation: Evidence from Greek polar questions
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The effects of contact on native language pronunciation in an L2 migrant setting*
The primary aim of this study was to determine whether native speakers of German living in either Canada or the Netherlands are perceived to have a foreign accent in their native German speech.…
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Phonetic and phonological influences in non-native intonation: an overview for language teachers.
Just as poor pronunciation can make a foreign language learner very difficult to understand, poor prosodic and intonational skills can have an equally devastating effect on communication and can…
Cross-language differences in fundamental frequency range: a comparison of English and German.
TLDR
The linguistic measures uncovered some differences between the two languages in how f0 range varies through an intonation contour, which helps shed light on the relation between intonational structure and f0range.
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Beyond Segments: Towards a L2 Intonation Learning Theory
This chapter presents a working model of L2 intonation learning, the L2 Intonation Learning theory (LILt), which ultimately aims to account for the difficulties that L2 learners encounter in…
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What is a Starred Tone? Evidence from Greek
The theoretical construct “starred tone” is assumed without comment in virtually all autosegmental analyses of intonation. The notation on which this idea is based—the asterisk or star to indicate…
Singing a different tune in your native language: first language attrition of prosody
First language attrition refers to the changes which a first language (L1) undergoes when a second language (L2) is acquired in a context in which L1 use is reduced (Cook, 2003; Köpke, 2004). To…
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