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Hierarchical distinctions in the production and perception of nuclear tunes in American English by Cole, Jennifer, Steffman, Jeremy, Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie, Tilsen, Sam

“…In Autosegmental-Metrical models of intonational phonology, different types of pitch accents, phrase accents, and boundary tones concatenate to create a set of…”
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Verum focus is verum, not focus: Cross-linguistic evidence by Gutzmann, Daniel, Hartmann, Katharina, Matthewson, Lisa

“…The accent pattern known as verum focus is commonly understood as an ordinary alternative focus on the truth of a proposition. This standard view, which we…”
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The encoding of prominence relations in supra-laryngeal articulation across speaking styles by Pagel, Lena, Roessig, Simon, Mücke, Doris

“…Speakers modify their supra-laryngeal articulation on the one hand as a function of prosodic prominence and on the other hand as a function of speaking style…”
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The inverse relation of pre-nuclear and nuclear prominences in German by Roessig, Simon

“…The importance of pre-nuclear prominences for focus marking has been largely neglected. Recent studies, however, present first evidence that the prosody of the…”
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Planning sentences and sentence intonation in Estonian by Ots, Nele

“…The notion of advance planning of sentence intonation is grounded in the positive correlation between the sentence-initial intonation peaks and sentence…”
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A sentence mood account for Spanish verum by Kocher, Anna

“…This article argues in favor of the idea that verum can result from focus marking on sentence mood. The empirical base are verum strategies in Spanish, English…”
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Variation and change over time in British choral singing (1925–2019) by Marshall, Edward J., Stuart-Smith, Jane, Butt, John, Dean, Timothy

“…The front vowels of Received Pronunciation lowered in quality over the twentieth century (Wells, 1982b; Fabricius, 2007; Bjelaković, 2017). Connections between…”
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A Process for Measuring Lip Kinematics Using Participants’ Webcams during Linguistic Experiments Conducted Online by Krause, Peter A., Pili, Ryan James, Hunt, Erik

“…Recent advances in automated face-tracking have made it possible for laboratory phonologists to measure lip motion using technology no more advanced than a…”
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Acoustics of guttural fricatives in Arabic, Armenian, and Kurdish: A case in remote data collection by Alexei Kochetov, Chahla Ben-Ammar, Koorosh Ariyaee, Talia Tahtadjian

“…Gutturals – uvulars, pharyngeals, and laryngeals – are relatively phonetically under-studied, with previous acoustic investigations being limited to a handful…”
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Preboundary lengthening and articulatory strengthening in Korean as an edge-prominence language by Kim, Jonny Jungyun, Kim, Sahyang, Cho, Taehong

“…This study examined preboundary lengthening and other kinematic characteristics of articulatory gestures in CV.CV and CV.CVC before prosodic boundaries in…”
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Phonetic and phonological aspects of prosodic focus marking in Canadian English by Kim, Jiseung, Arnhold, Anja

“…Previous studies reported mixed findings regarding the details of the acoustic correlates of focus, as well as the relationship between information structure…”
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Ẹnà: An iterative affixation game in Yorùbá by Ozburn, Avery, Akinbo, Samuel Kayode, Schellenberg, Murray

“…This paper presents novel data from a Yorùbá language game called Ẹnà, an iterative affixation game that typically involves copying of vowels and tones onto a…”
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Variability and reliability in the AXB assessment of phonetic imitation by MacLeod, Bethany

“…Speakers adjust their pronunciation to come to sound more similar to recently heard speech in a phenomenon called phonetic imitation. The extent to which…”
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The relationship between the coarticulatory source and effect in sound change: evidence from Italo-Romance metaphony in the Lausberg area by Jonathan Harrington, Michele Gubian, Pia Greca

“…In ongoing sound changes, a coarticulatory effect is often enhanced as the coarticulatory source that gives rise to it wanes. But quite how phonologisation and…”
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Identity Avoidance in Turkish Partial Reduplication: Feature Specificity and Locality by Faruk Akkuş, Kevin Tang

“…This study investigates the Turkish partial reduplication phenomenon, in which the reduplicant is derived by prefixing C1VC2 syllable, where C1V are identical…”
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Examining recording quality from two methods of remote data collection in a study of vowel reduction by Conklin, Jenna

“…Remote recording quality of speech data varies significantly by recording devices, formats, and platforms, and past work has asserted that fine-grained…”
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Acoustics of stress and weight in Central Alaskan Yup’ik by Alden, McKinley, Arnhold, Anja

“…In Central Alaskan Yup’ik, syllables with long vowels are always stressed, light syllables alternate stress, but only certain closed syllables are stressed…”
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The interaction between language usage and acoustic correlates of the Kuy register distinction by Lau-Preechathammarach, Raksit Tyler

“…Contact is often cited as an explanation for the convergence of areal features and has been proposed as an explanation for the emergence of tonal languages in…”
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Comparing MaxEnt and Noisy Harmonic Grammar by Flemming, Edward

“…MaxEnt grammar is a probabilistic version of Harmonic Grammar in which the harmony scores of candidates are mapped onto probabilities. It has become the tool…”
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A MaxEnt learner for super-additive counting cumulativity by Kim, Seoyoung

“…Whereas most previous studies on (super-)gang effects examined cases where two weaker constraints jointly beat another stronger constraint (Albright 2012; Shih…”
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