Ratings of the prosodic features in speech are restricted to judgments of the speakers ability to blend sounds and words together, to stress syllables and words, and to modify pitch appropriately ...

Natural speech is always 'contaminated' with prosodic features, which increase word–length variability and introduce pitch and amplitude variations; these variables can be completely avoided ...

Crystal begins by contextualising his work on prosody within existing studies, before going on to discuss voice quality and sound attributes in prosodic systems. There are also comprehensive studies ...

Actions may speak louder than words, but words still matter — a lot. People can get easily offended, and if you rush around ...

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Vol. 37, Issue. 8, p. 1000. The linguistic study of Chinese, with its rich morphological, syntactic and prosodic/tonal structures, its complex writing system, and ...

This compact volume makes available a selection of 402 entries from the widely praised Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, with emphasis on prosodic and poetic terms likely to be encountered ...

She also continues to study the prosodic meaning of questions, parentheticals and deaccenting in English; the syntactic form and discourse meanings of simple copular sentences and cleft sentences ...

Art is a process, not a product. A book is only the ending of a process perhaps, for the time being, a process which will ...