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Prieto, Pilar; D'Imperio, Mariapaola; Fivela, Barbara Gili – Language and Speech, 2005
The article describes the contrastive possibilities of alignment of high accents in three Romance varieties, namely, Central Catalan, Neapolitan Italian, and Pisa Italian. The Romance languages analyzed in this article provide crucial evidence that small differences in alignment in rising accents should be encoded phonologically. To account for…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Italian, Suprasegmentals, Phonology
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Basboll, Hans – Language and Speech, 1980
Discusses trends and developments in generative phonology; metatheory and evidence in phonology; and segments, features, and marking. (RL)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Generative Phonology, Language Research, Phonemics
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Fujisaki, Hiroya – Language and Speech, 1980
Augments Michael Studdert-Kennedy's state-of-the-art report on speech perception research (EJ 227 656) with comments on categorical perception of speech and nonspeech stimuli, speech perception in context, the role of prosody, and development/impairments of speech perception. Includes a summary of a discussion on speech perception research. (RL)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adults, Auditory Perception, Children
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Studdert-Kennedy, Michael – Language and Speech, 1980
Reviews research on prosody and segmental perception, segmentation and invariance, categorical perception of speech and nonspeech, feature detectors, scaling speech sounds to an auditory-articulatory space, acoustic-phonetic dependencies within the syllable, higher order (nonphonetic) factors in the comprehension of fluent speech, and cerebral…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adults, Auditory Perception, Children