In the field of bilingual language development, studies of first language (L1) attrition and
second language (L2) attainment have traditionally been two separate streams of research …

Many studies showed that prosodic cues such as f0, duration and intensity are used in focus
marking cross-linguistically. Usually, on-focus words exhibit expansions of acoustic cues …

The importance of pre-nuclear prominences for focus marking has been largely neglected.
Recent studies, however, present first evidence that the prosody of the pre-nuclear region …

1 Background Speakers structure the information that they convey in an utterance (Vallduví
& Engdahl, 1996). Based on their beliefs about which entities are most important for the …

Cross-linguistic differences of F0 patterns have been found from both monolingual and
bilingual speakers. However, previous studies either worked on intonation languages or …

The interaction between segment and prosody has been receiving increasing attention.
While speakers of European languages are found to hyper-articulate their speech to …

This paper investigated whether and how individual speakers of Mandarin Chinese
(Mandarin) mark prosodic focus (broad focus vs verb focus) differently in their production …

The speech production of non-native speakers usually differs from that of native speakers,
but very few investigations on the prosody of non-native speech have been conducted …

This dissertation focuses on the broad question of how humans are able to make sense of
speech and interpret it as meaningful units, despite extensive variation–one instance of …