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Hoole, Philip; Bombien, Lasse – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to use prosodic and syllable-structure variation to probe the underlying representation of laryngeal kinematics in languages traditionally considered to differ in voicing typology (German vs. Dutch and French). Method: Transillumination and videofiberendoscopic filming were used to investigate the devoicing…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Syllables
Lu, Lu – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation examines the interface between music and language in "Huju", which is a Shanghai dialect based regional opera. Chapter I is a short introduction. Chapter II presents a thorough review of the studies on linguistic tone and music tune, and provides descriptive background information about "Huju" and Shanghai…
Descriptors: Music, Intonation, Dialects, Linguistic Theory
Kaden, Christiane – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Many languages have processes which lengthen or shorten a vowel or consonant. In this dissertation, I concentrate on Open Syllable Lengthening, Closed Syllable Shortening, Monosyllabic Lengthening and Trochaic Lengthening, and present a formal model which captures these lengthenings and shortening as the insertion, deletion or reassignment of a…
Descriptors: German, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Syllables
Butler, Becky Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation explores a purportedly unusual word type known as the "sesquisyllable," which has long been considered characteristic of mainland Southeast Asian languages. Sesquisyllables are traditionally defined as "one and a half" syllables, or as one "major" syllable preceded by one "minor" syllable,…
Descriptors: Syllables, Language Research, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
Li, Jian – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The history of Chinese language is characterized by a clear shift from monosyllabic to disyllabic words (Wang, 1980). This dissertation aims to provide a new diachronic explanation for the rise of disyllables in the history of Chinese and to demonstrate its significance for Modern Chinese prosody and lexicalization. A corpus of 300 Lianmian words…
Descriptors: Chinese, Diachronic Linguistics, Morphology (Languages), Phonology
Applebaum, Ayla Ayda Bozkurt – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study provides a systematic phonetic analysis of the basic entities of Kabardian prosodic units above the word and investigates the predictability of prosodic units from grammatical and discourse factors. This dissertation is the first extensive description of Kabardian prosody and grammar based on natural data. This study proposes that…
Descriptors: Grammar, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Language Research
Tu, Jung-yueh – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigates the adaptation of word prosody in loanword phonology. First, it explicates several influential loanword theories and reviews some representative cases of prosodic adaptation from different languages. Then, it turns to the focus on the prosodic adaptation of Japanese borrowings into Taiwanese Southern Min (TSM or Taiwanese).…
Descriptors: Japanese, Pronunciation, Linguistic Borrowing, Linguistic Theory
Goffman, Lisa; Westover, Stefanie – Journal of Child Language, 2013
The aim of this study was to determine, using speech error and articulatory analyses, whether the binary distinction between iambs and trochees should be extended to include additional prosodic subcategories. Adults, children who are normally developing, and children with specific language impairment (SLI) participated. Children with SLI were…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Language Research, Language Acquisition
Kuo, Chen-Hsiu – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation investigates how the Taiwanese Tone Sandhi Groups are perceived, and the acoustic/phonetics correlates of listeners' judgments. A series of perception experiments have been conducted to scrutinize the following topics--Taiwanese tone neutralization, Tone Sandhi Group (TSG) as a prosodic domain, perceived boundary strength in…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Correlation, Intonation, Computational Linguistics
Yakup, Mahire – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Some syllables are louder, longer and stronger than other syllables at the lexical level. These prominent prosodic characteristics of certain syllables are captured by suprasegmental features including fundamental frequency, duration and intensity. A language like English uses fundamental frequency, duration and intensity to distinguish stressed…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Stress Variables, Syllables, Phonology
Callier, Patrick R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation investigates the linguistic and social constraints on the occurrence of creaky voice quality (creak) in Beijing Mandarin (BM), as well as the effect of linguistic and prosodic context on creak's social meanings for Mandarin listeners. It is a two-phase study, composed of 1) a production study of the distribution of creak in the…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Computational Linguistics
Johnson, Elizabeth K.; Seidl, Amanda H. – Developmental Science, 2009
English-learning 7.5-month-olds are heavily biased to perceive stressed syllables as word onsets. By 11 months, however, infants begin segmenting non-initially stressed words from speech. Using the same artificial language methodology as Johnson and Jusczyk (2001), we explored the possibility that the emergence of this ability is linked to a…
Descriptors: Language Research, Research Design, Infants, Suprasegmentals
Bamakhramah, Majdi A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This thesis has two broad goals. The first is to contribute to the study of Arabic phonology particularly syllable structure and syllabification. This will be achieved through examining phenomena related to syllable structure and syllabic weight such as syllabification, stress assignment, epenthesis, syncope, and sonority in three different…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Foreign Countries, Syllables, Suprasegmentals
An Analysis of the Sonority Hypothesis and Cluster Realization in a Child with Phonological Disorder
Klopfenstein, Marie; Ball, Martin J. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
This study describes the realization of onset and coda clusters in a 4-year old child acquiring American English, and with a higher than usual level of unintelligible speech. It reviews previous studies that have tested cluster realization against markedness and, in particular, the sonority hypothesis. This latter predicts steep rises in sonority…
Descriptors: North American English, Hypothesis Testing, Phonology, Language Processing
Yavas, Mehmet – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
The structure of /s/-clusters has been a rather controversial subject due to their structural oddities. Studies on the acquisition of these clusters have contributed to the discussion to validate certain theoretical claims, and sonority-related issues have always been in focus. Cross-linguistic acquisition data from children with phonological…
Descriptors: Children, Language Acquisition, Phonological Awareness, Syllables