This paper addresses the validity of the segmental anchoring hypothesis for tonal landmarks
(henceforth, SAH) as described in recent work by (among others) Ladd, Faulkner, D …

Recent evidence that pitch-movement shape can influence perceived alignment of rising
(LH) pitch accents in several languages appears to challenge the well-established level …

Varieties of Malay, including Indonesian, have been variously described as having word
stress on the penultimate syllable, as having variable word stress and as having a phrase …

Cross-linguistic studies aim at determining the similarities and differences in speech
production by uncovering linguistic adaptations to specific constraints and environments. In …

Prosody is an umbrella term used to cover a variety of interconnected and interacting
phenomena, namely stress, rhythm, phrasing, and intonation. The phonetic expression of …

This study investigates the coordination of boundary tones as a function of stress and pitch
accent. Boundary tone coordination has not been experimentally investigated previously …

Perceptual attunement to one's native language results in language-specific processing of
speech sounds. This includes stress cues, instantiated by differences in intensity, pitch, and …

The study examined intonational cues to word beginnings in French. French has an optional
“early rise” in fundamental frequency (F0) starting at the beginning of a content word. The …

This study is concerned with the alignment of f0 peaks in rising LH pitch accents in German,
both in relation to acoustically defined segments, referred to as segmental anchors, as well …

We investigated the use of language-specific intonational cues to word segmentation in
French. Participants listened to phonemically identical sequences such as/selafij/, C'est la …