This paper jointly considers syntactic, semantic and phonological/phonetic factors in approaching an understanding of BIN, a remote past marker in African American English that has been described as "stressed". It brings together data from the Corpus …
Association of tones to prosodic trees was introduced in Pierrehumbert & Beckman (1988). This included: (i) tonal association to higher-level prosodic nodes such as intonational phrases, and (ii) multiple association of a tone to a higher-level …
Work on incomplete neutralization in the phonetic implementation of phonological processes is under active investigation with segments, but with much less progress on tones. In Luganda, underlyingly different phonological representations of tones can …
Intonational transcription conventions from MAE-ToBI (Mainstream American English-Tones and Break Indices) (Beckman & Pierrehumbert 1986, Beckman & Elam 1997, Veilleux et al. 2006) are commonly taken as a starting point for the intonational analysis …
Samoan is an ergative-marking, (reportedly) non-tonal Polynesian language in which ergative case is marked segmentally, but absolutive case has been said to be unmarked. This paper shows that in fact, a high edge tone co-occurs with absolutive …
We examined the phonetics and phonology of intonation of infant-directed speech (IDS) and non-IDS in story-reading in two typologically-divergent languages, English and Bengali. In addition to finding an increase in f0 range and variability in IDS, …