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Caspers, Johanneke – Language and Speech, 1998
Investigated functional differences between the accent-lending rise followed by sustained level pitch (10) and combined accent-lending rise and final rise (12) in Dutch. Thirty individuals were presented with short utterances bearing either a 10 or 12 contour. Results indicated that 10 is not readily interpreted as a question, so 10 may help…
Descriptors: Dutch, Foreign Countries, Intonation, Morphology (Languages)
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Dalton, Martha; Ni Chasaide, Ailbhe – Language and Speech, 2005
A comparison of the contour alignment of nuclear and initial prenuclear accents was carried out for the Irish dialects of Gaoth Dobhair in Ulster (GD-U) and Cois Fharraige in Connaught (CF-C). This was done across conditions where the number of unstressed syllables following the nuclear and preceding the initial prenuclear accents was varied from…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Dialects, Irish, Foreign Countries
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Braun, Bettina – Language and Speech, 2006
It is acknowledged that contrast plays an important role in understanding discourse and information structure. While it is commonly assumed that contrast can be marked by intonation only, our understanding of the intonational realization of contrast is limited. For German there is mainly introspective evidence that the rising theme accent (or…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Sentences, Phonetics, Scaling