This study tests the influence of acoustic cues and non-acoustic contextual factors on
listeners' perception of prominence in three languages whose prominence systems differ in …

Previous evidence suggests that children's mastery of prosodic modulations to signal the
informational status of discourse referents emerges quite late in development. In the present …

We present here a musical approach to speech melody, one that takes advantage of the
intervallic precision made possible with musical notation. Current phonetic and phonological …

Speakers strongly vary in their imitation abilities, but the factors underlying this variation are
still unclear. This study examined whether individual differences in working memory affect …

We compare the use of prosodic prominence in English and French to convey focus. While
previous studies have found these languages, and Germanic vs. Romance more generally …

While many studies have demonstrated the relationship between musical rhythm and
speech prosody, this has been rarely addressed in the context of second language (L2) …

The work on informational structure (IS) in French highlights two types of markers: syntactic
constructions and prosody, but often without looking at their interactions. The only studies …

Abstract Since Bolinger's [1] discovery that pitch cues accentual prominence in English, a
tension has arisen between two strategies: equating accent with pitch excursions and …

Introduction French is traditionally described as a language favoring syntactic means to
mark focus, yet recent research shows that prosody is also used. We examine how French …

1/Question (s) posée (s) et problématiqueCet article se donne pour objectif de rendre
compte de la façon dont les recherches au Laboratoire Parole et Langage contribuent …