The present study investigates the intonational marking of question words (qwords) in Tashlhiyt Berber. The first part of the study identifies a number of possible prosodic patterns on qwords as ...

Abstract: This study investigates how tone and intonation, and how focus and intonation, interact in intonation type (statement versus question) identification. A perception experiment was conducted ...

1 School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China. 2 School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. This study examines ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. You can also use a falling intonation in your question tags when you think you know the answer, but you want to check. For example: Ruby's going to ...

Tonal languages are different from non-tonal languages because tonal languages are dependent on the emphasis and pronunciation, because how a word is said will affect its meaning. It is quite ...

A large body of literature has shown that segmental features of speech can either subconsciously or consciously be imitated in the process of online phonetic convergence (Fowler et al., 2003; Pardo, ...