Phonological descriptions often make reference to prosodic boundaries without exploring
the origins of those boundaries. In the Onset Prominence representational framework …

Final devoicing and regressive voice assimilation have been reported to apply to obstruents
in word-final obstruent+ sonorant clusters in Polish. This phenomenon, interpreted as a case …

In this chapter the research area of the thesis-intonation modeling is presented. At first, a
brief explanation is given why intonation is important and why there is a need for intonation …

Agnieszka Wagner, Jolanta Bachan, Katarzyna Klessa, Grażyna Demenko 272 było również
przedstawienie założeń dotyczących akustycznych korelatów prominencji i granic fraz …

The intonation of Dutch, German and English is characterised by a trade-off between the
number of morphosyntactic question markers in the text and high pitch. Utterances that …

This article examines intonational variation in a language contact situation. The study
contributes to sociolinguistic research on the social meaning of intonational variation …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Soundings and the Politics of Sociolinguistic Listening for
Transnational Space Page 3 Contemporary Studies in Linguistics Series Editor: Li Wei The …

The aim of this acoustic study of voiced and voiceless word-initial plosives is to establish the
nature of the relationship between prosodic positions, accent, and segmental phonetics in …

Filled pauses (FPs) have proved to be more than valuable cues to speech production
processes and important units in discourse analysis. Some aspects of their form and …

This dissertation should begin with a definition of its research subject. However, the term
intonation is easily understood intuitively but becomes rather problematic when one tries to …