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Kugler, Frank; Genzel, Susanne – Language and Speech, 2012
This article presents data from three production experiments investigating the prosodic means of encoding information structure in Akan, a tone language that belongs to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family, spoken in Ghana. Information structure was elicited via context questions that put target words either in wide, informational, or…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Foreign Countries, Pragmatics, Linguistic Theory
Ordin, Mikhail – Language and Speech, 2011
The presented study is aimed at investigating the interaction of palatalization and intrinsic prosodic features of the vowel in CVC (consonant+vowel+consonant) syllables in Russian. The universal nature of intrinsic prosodic vowel features was confirmed with the data from the Russian language. It was found that palatalization of the consonants…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Suprasegmentals, Vowels, Russian
Reinisch, Eva; Jesse, Alexandra; McQueen, James M. – Language and Speech, 2011
Three categorization experiments investigated whether the speaking rate of a preceding sentence influences durational cues to the perception of suprasegmental lexical-stress patterns. Dutch two-syllable word fragments had to be judged as coming from one of two longer words that matched the fragment segmentally but differed in lexical stress…
Descriptors: Cues, Speech Communication, Syllables, Suprasegmentals
Scharrer, Lisa; Christmann, Ursula; Knoll, Monja – Language and Speech, 2011
Previous research has shown that in different languages ironic speech is acoustically modulated compared to literal speech, and these modulations are assumed to aid the listener in the comprehension process by acting as cues that mark utterances as ironic. The present study was conducted to identify paraverbal features of German "ironic…
Descriptors: Cues, Vowels, Figurative Language, Criticism
Dachkovsky, Svetlana; Sandler, Wendy – Language and Speech, 2009
While visual signals that accompany spoken language serve to augment the communicative message, the same visual ingredients form the substance of the linguistic system in sign languages. This article provides an analysis of visual signals that comprise part of the intonational system of a sign language. The system is conveyed mainly by particular…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Visual Stimuli
de Vos, Connie; van der Kooij, Els; Crasborn, Onno – Language and Speech, 2009
The eyebrows are used as conversational signals in face-to-face spoken interaction (Ekman, 1979). In Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT), the eyebrows are typically furrowed in content questions, and raised in polar questions (Coerts, 1992). On the other hand, these eyebrow positions are also associated with anger and surprise, respectively, in…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Nonverbal Communication, Suprasegmentals, Psychological Patterns
Knight, Rachael-Anne – Language and Speech, 2008
This article investigates the perceptual effect of a high plateau in the intonation contour. Plateaux are flat stretches of contour and have been observed associated with high tones in Standard Southern British (SSB) English. The hypothesis that plateaux may make the accents with which they are associated sound higher in pitch than sharp peaks of…
Descriptors: English, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Auditory Perception
Perry, Conrad; Wong, Richard Kwok-Shing; Matthews, Stephen – Language and Speech, 2009
We examined the relationship between the acoustic duration of syllables and the silent pauses that follow them in Cantonese. The results showed that at major syntactic junctures, acoustic plus silent pause durations were quite similar for a number of different syllable types whose acoustic durations differed substantially. In addition, it appeared…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Syllables, Acoustics, Time
Halle, Pierre A.; Durand, Catherine; de Boysson-Bardies, Benedicte – Language and Speech, 2008
The first part of this study examined (Parisian) French-learning 11-month-old infants' recognition of the six definite and indefinite French articles: "le", "la", "les", "un", "une", and "des". The six articles were compared with pseudoarticles in the context of disyllabic or monosyllabic…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Nouns, French, Infants
Lleo, Conxita – Language and Speech, 2006
This article examines the constraints on Prosodic Word production in Spanish by three monolingual and three Spanish-German bilingual children from the beginning of word production until 2;2. It also considers the relationship between Prosodic Words and Phonological Phrases, and in the case of monosyllabic words, it takes into consideration…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Suprasegmentals, Syllables, Phonology
Kondo, Yuko – Language and Speech, 2006
The present study addresses the question of how within-word prosodic constituent boundaries constrain V-to-V coarticulation in Japanese. The smallest prosodic unit that might affect V-to-V coarticulation is the bimoraic foot. The effect of the foot boundary is observed in the present study: the bimoraic foot constrains the extent of V-to-V…
Descriptors: Interaction, Linguistic Theory, Suprasegmentals, Japanese

Cowie, Roddy; Douglas-Cowie, Ellen – Language and Speech, 1998
Examined recorded business telephone conversations, noting that at least some forms of spontaneous conversation contained a second form of global intonational marking. Certain attributes of intonation persisted throughout discourse units in the calls, differentiating one unit from another. Two types of parameters emerged (one controlling midpoint…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Intonation
Prieto, Pilar – Language and Speech, 2006
This paper focuses on the development of Prosodic Word shapes in Catalan, a language which differs from both Spanish and English in the distribution of PW structures. Of particular interest are the truncations of initial unstressed syllables, and how these develop over time. Developmental qualitative and quantitative data from seven…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Spanish, Suprasegmentals, Language Acquisition
Boucher, Victor J. – Language and Speech, 2006
Language learning requires a capacity to recall novel series of speech sounds. Research shows that prosodic marks create grouping effects enhancing serial recall. However, any restriction on memory affecting the reproduction of prosody would limit the set of patterns that could be learned and subsequently used in speech. By implication, grouping…
Descriptors: Speech, Suprasegmentals, Memory, French

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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