SRI International I present a unified account of interpretation preferences of stressed and unstressed pronouns in discourse. The central intuition is the Complementary Preference Hypothesis that predicts the interpretation preference of a stressed pronoun from that of an unstressed pronoun

The aim of this experimental study is to investigate the production of stressed and unstressed syllables in Brazilian Portuguese (PB) by two hearing-impaired subjects, one with moderate (HI-M) and the other with severe hearing loss (HI-S). A normal hearing-subject’s (NH) speech production is taken

aged 31-50 years and familiar with the exercise régime rested supine for 1 h, rode a bicycle ergometer in the upright position for 16 min and then rested for 2 h. The exercise intensity was less than 85 % of the maximum aerobic power (VQi max). During the first 10 min after exercise, one subject

In this paper I analyse the stress-dependent alternating diphthongs in Spanish, [yé] ~ [e] and [wé] ~ [o], within Correspondence Theory (McCarthy and Prince 1995). I argue that the monophthongs are derived from their corresponding diphthongs in unstressed positions, and that the notions

. This study explores these questions through acoustic analysis of reduced vowels in the speech of twelve American English speakers. The results show that there is a fundamental distinction between the mid central [´] vowel that can occur in unstressed word-final position (e.g. in Rosa), and high reduced

sentences, the pseudoword was in a stressed position, while in others it was in an unstressed position. Acoustic analysis (duration, F0, expressed in z-score values) were performed on the three vowels of the pseudoword. Results showed that Spanish speakers have acquired the knowledge that, contrary

CV, V1CV2- and V1#CV2-sequences of reading material of six speakers of Standard Austrian German have been analysed. V1 was a pre-palatal, constricted vowel /i / in unstressed position. C was an alveolar consonant. V2 was either a pre-palatal, constricted vowel /i/, or a back, rounded vowel /u, o

Abstract This study examined the impact of phonetic training on English lexical schwa vowel in primary school learners (aged 12) of English as a foreign language in Spain. Students' perceptual awareness on the occurrence of schwa in unstressed position in English was tested in three groups: i

prosody transfer. The second stage shows moderate success in the suppression of L1 prosody especially in the utterance-initial positions. In the third stage, the error rate is low and the error patterns suggest that it is difficult to maintain tonal contrast in unstressed positions and with question

, but we found no independent durational or spectral differences between stressed and unstressed syllables. Interestingly, the intonational distinction between words and clitic groups remains intact in the stretch of speech after the focus. Unlike Germanic, Persian post-focal words are accented, though