Phonetics is the area of linguistics that studies the production and perception of speech
sounds. Research in the past decades has clearly shown that speech is extremely variable …

El principal objetivo de este artículo es presentar una nueva propuesta de etiquetaje
prosódico del español mediante el modelo métrico-autosegmental de análisis entonativo …

This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosodic structure. Taking a
phonological perspective, it shows how morpho-syntactic constituents are mapped to …

This paper explores durational aspects of pauses, gaps and overlaps in three different
conversational corpora with a view to challenge claims about precision timing in turn-taking …

The present study examines how lexical tone and focus contribute to the formation and
alignment of f0contours in speech. This was done through an investigation of f0contour …

This work is an investigation of the relation between prosodic structure, intonational structure
and (some instances of) focus realisation in European Portuguese (EP). The prosodic …

In this paper, we propose a preliminary framework for accounting for certain surface F0
variations in speech. The framework consists of definitions for pitch targets and rules of their …

The influence of information structure on tonal scaling in German is examined
experimentally. Eighteen speakers uttered a total of 2277 sentences of the same syntactic …

In conversation, turn transitions between speakers often occur smoothly, usually within a
time window of a few hundred milliseconds. It has been argued, on the basis of a button …

The goal of this chapter is to describe the basic intonational tunes found in Central Mexican
Spanish and specifically the variety of Mexican Spanish spoken in the Distrito Federal (or …