subject:(prosody)

University of Georgia

1. Westmoreland, Matthew. Analysis of the development of reading prosody as an element of children's developing reading fluency.

Degree: 2014, University of Georgia

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/30250

► This study examines the development of reading prosody, specifically, linguistic focus prosody as an element of reading by recording the readings of 120 third grade… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Reading Prosody; Linguistic Focus Prosody

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Westmoreland, M. (2014). Analysis of the development of reading prosody as an element of children's developing reading fluency. (Thesis). University of Georgia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10724/30250

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Westmoreland, Matthew. “Analysis of the development of reading prosody as an element of children's developing reading fluency.” 2014. Thesis, University of Georgia. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10724/30250.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Westmoreland, Matthew. “Analysis of the development of reading prosody as an element of children's developing reading fluency.” 2014. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Westmoreland M. Analysis of the development of reading prosody as an element of children's developing reading fluency. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Georgia; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/30250.

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Westmoreland M. Analysis of the development of reading prosody as an element of children's developing reading fluency. [Thesis]. University of Georgia; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/30250

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University of North Texas

2. Walsh, Hannah C. An Examination of the Language of Psychopaths: Differences in Prosodic Channels of Communication in Psychopathic and Non-Psychopathic Offenders.

Degree: 2018, University of North Texas

URL: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248490/

► Natural speech contains a wealth of information relevant to understanding cognitive and affective psychological processes, which are reflected in both prosodic and semantic channels of… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Psychopathy; Prosody

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Walsh, H. C. (2018). An Examination of the Language of Psychopaths: Differences in Prosodic Channels of Communication in Psychopathic and Non-Psychopathic Offenders. (Thesis). University of North Texas. Retrieved from https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248490/

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Walsh, Hannah C. “An Examination of the Language of Psychopaths: Differences in Prosodic Channels of Communication in Psychopathic and Non-Psychopathic Offenders.” 2018. Thesis, University of North Texas. Accessed March 01, 2021. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248490/.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Walsh, Hannah C. “An Examination of the Language of Psychopaths: Differences in Prosodic Channels of Communication in Psychopathic and Non-Psychopathic Offenders.” 2018. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

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Walsh HC. An Examination of the Language of Psychopaths: Differences in Prosodic Channels of Communication in Psychopathic and Non-Psychopathic Offenders. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of North Texas; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248490/.

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Walsh HC. An Examination of the Language of Psychopaths: Differences in Prosodic Channels of Communication in Psychopathic and Non-Psychopathic Offenders. [Thesis]. University of North Texas; 2018. Available from: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248490/

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University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

3. Im, Suyeon. Prosodic prominence in English.

Degree: PhD, Linguistics, 2018, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/102893

► In English, certain words are perceptually more salient than other neighboring words. The perceptual salience is signaled by acoustic cues. Prominent words are higher, longer,… (more)

▼ In English, certain words are perceptually more salient than other neighboring words. The perceptual salience is signaled by acoustic cues. Prominent words are higher, longer, or louder than nonprominent words in English. Perceptual prominence is associated with meaning of a word in discourse context. Prominent words are usually new or contrastive information, while nonprominent words are given or noncontrastive information. This dissertation addresses English prominence in two separate studies. The first study investigates the prosodic prominence in relation to pitch accents, acoustic cues, and discourse meaning of a word in a public speech. The second study examines the cognitive representation of prosodic contour in a corpus of imitation. Linguists claim that the information status of a word determines the types of pitch accents in English. Prior research informs us about prominence (1) in relation to the binary given-new distinction of lexical givenness, and (2) in minimally contextualized utterances such as question-answer prompts or excerpts from a corpus. The assignment of prominence, however, can vary in relation to referential meaning as well as lexical meaning of a word in natural, more contextualized speech. This study examines the prosodic prominence as a function of pitch accents, acoustic cues, and information status in a complete public speech. Information status is considered in relation to referential, lexical givenness and alternative-based contrastive focus. The results show that accent type is probabilistically associated with information status in this speech. The accent assignment differs between referentially vs. lexically given words. Despite the weak relationship between information status and pitch accents in the speech of the speaker, non-expert listeners perceive prominence as expected: they are more likely to perceive prominence on words carrying new or contrastive information or words with high or bitonal pitch accents. Surprisingly, the listeners perceive acoustic cues differently depending on the information status or accent types of a word. Based on these results, the first study suggests that (1) the relationship between information status and accent type is not deterministic in English, (2) lexical givenness differs from referential givenness in production and perception of prominence, and (3) perceived prominence is influenced by information status, pitch accents, acoustic cues, and their interaction. The second study examines how an intonational contour is represented in the mental lexicon of English speakers. Some linguists find that speakers are able to reproduce the phonetic details of intonational features, while in other research speakers are better at reproducing intonational features than imitating phonetic details of an utterance. This study investigates the domain of intonational encoding by comparing several prosodic domains in imitated utterances. I hypothesize that the domain which best captures the similarity of intonational contour between the model speaker and… Advisors/Committee Members: Cole, Jennifer (advisor), Cole, Jennifer (Committee Chair), Hualde, José Ignacio (committee member), Shih, Chilin (committee member), Shosted, Ryan (committee member), Roy, Joseph (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: prosody; English

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Im, S. (2018). Prosodic prominence in English. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/102893

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Im, Suyeon. “Prosodic prominence in English.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/102893.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Im, Suyeon. “Prosodic prominence in English.” 2018. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Im S. Prosodic prominence in English. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/102893.

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Im S. Prosodic prominence in English. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/102893

University of Georgia

4. Mira, William A. The impact of expressiveness on the listening comprehension of storybooks by prekindergarten children.

Degree: 2014, University of Georgia

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/27769

► The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of expressiveness on the comprehension of storybooks by four and five year old pre-kindergarten children.… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Prosody; Comprehension; Prekindergarteners

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Mira, W. A. (2014). The impact of expressiveness on the listening comprehension of storybooks by prekindergarten children. (Thesis). University of Georgia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10724/27769

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Mira, William A. “The impact of expressiveness on the listening comprehension of storybooks by prekindergarten children.” 2014. Thesis, University of Georgia. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10724/27769.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Mira, William A. “The impact of expressiveness on the listening comprehension of storybooks by prekindergarten children.” 2014. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

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Mira WA. The impact of expressiveness on the listening comprehension of storybooks by prekindergarten children. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Georgia; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/27769.

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Mira WA. The impact of expressiveness on the listening comprehension of storybooks by prekindergarten children. [Thesis]. University of Georgia; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/27769

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California State University – Chico

5. Stephens, Suzanne S. Enhancing second language acquisition and recall with music and prosody .

Degree: 2014, California State University – Chico

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/115666

► This paper examines evidence that music and language are so intertwined, so integral to one another that one cannot be learned without the other. Indeed,… (more)

▼ This paper examines evidence that music and language are so intertwined, so integral to one another that one cannot be learned without the other. Indeed, the study of music seems to enhance the acquisition of second languages because it provides phonological and metrical space cognition. Starting with the premise that language and music are ubiquitous, and that their respective grammars are implicitly known to nearly all people, researchers have parsed out the relevant topics into the major areas of cognition, memory and recall, and models of brain and functional modularity described by syntactic and semantic networks. How music and prosody influence language acquisition focuses on the following: The hierarchical grammars of music and linguistics; studies of the brain functions from neurolinguistics; language acquisition through psycholinguistics; and modern graph theory as applied to language networks. These models are examined for their predictions of growth and function. Recent interdisciplinary research in these fields has discovered correlative processing and shared resources between language and music that has implications for second language (L2) learners as a distinct class of language learners. Since the input for language, music and prosody is often under the L2 learner's control, strategic learning may improve memory and recall. First, this paper examines theories of infant language acquisition, including classic morpheme studies, prior to extending the theories to adult second language learners and use of music/language prosody. Thus, from the L2 learner's prospective, does music and language prosody improve or enhance the second language acquisition process, and what is the evidence? From neuroscience studies, is there a strong enough cognitive connection to include explicit music and prosody training? This needs evidence beyond the obvious sociolinguistic reasons, because the argument here is that music itself enhances cognitive functions. Or, is music and varieties of language prosody simply to be enjoyed as part of the cultural or social milieu, not necessary for language competence, just a frill. Using network theory to describe the syntactic bottleneck caused by incomplete or faulty knowledge of requisite morphemes, this paper extrapolates from the child language cascade to the adult L2 learner. For the adult second language learner, music and language prosody are strategic tools for acquiring these implicit rules ensuring language readiness.

Subjects/Keywords: music language prosody

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Stephens, S. S. (2014). Enhancing second language acquisition and recall with music and prosody . (Thesis). California State University – Chico. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/115666

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Stephens, Suzanne S. “Enhancing second language acquisition and recall with music and prosody .” 2014. Thesis, California State University – Chico. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/115666.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Stephens, Suzanne S. “Enhancing second language acquisition and recall with music and prosody .” 2014. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

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Stephens SS. Enhancing second language acquisition and recall with music and prosody . [Internet] [Thesis]. California State University – Chico; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/115666.

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Stephens SS. Enhancing second language acquisition and recall with music and prosody . [Thesis]. California State University – Chico; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/115666

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University of Edinburgh

6. Ronanki, Srikanth. Prosody generation for text-to-speech synthesis.

Degree: PhD, 2019, University of Edinburgh

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/36396

► The absence of convincing intonation makes current parametric speech synthesis systems sound dull and lifeless, even when trained on expressive speech data. Typically, these systems… (more)

▼ The absence of convincing intonation makes current parametric speech synthesis systems sound dull and lifeless, even when trained on expressive speech data. Typically, these systems use regression techniques to predict the fundamental frequency (F0) frame-by-frame. This approach leads to overlysmooth pitch contours and fails to construct an appropriate prosodic structure across the full utterance. In order to capture and reproduce larger-scale pitch patterns, we propose a template-based approach for automatic F0 generation, where per-syllable pitch-contour templates (from a small, automatically learned set) are predicted by a recurrent neural network (RNN). The use of syllable templates mitigates the over-smoothing problem and is able to reproduce pitch patterns observed in the data. The use of an RNN, paired with connectionist temporal classification (CTC), enables the prediction of structure in the pitch contour spanning the entire utterance. This novel F0 prediction system is used alongside separate LSTMs for predicting phone durations and the other acoustic features, to construct a complete text-to-speech system. Later, we investigate the benefits of including long-range dependencies in duration prediction at frame-level using uni-directional recurrent neural networks. Since prosody is a supra-segmental property, we consider an alternate approach to intonation generation which exploits long-term dependencies of F0 by effective modelling of linguistic features using recurrent neural networks. For this purpose, we propose a hierarchical encoder-decoder and multi-resolution parallel encoder where the encoder takes word and higher level linguistic features at the input and upsamples them to phone-level through a series of hidden layers and is integrated into a Hybrid system which is then submitted to Blizzard challenge workshop. We then highlight some of the issues in current approaches and a plan for future directions of investigation is outlined along with on-going work.

Subjects/Keywords: speech synthesis; prosody

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Ronanki, S. (2019). Prosody generation for text-to-speech synthesis. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Edinburgh. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1842/36396

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ronanki, Srikanth. “Prosody generation for text-to-speech synthesis.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Edinburgh. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/36396.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ronanki, Srikanth. “Prosody generation for text-to-speech synthesis.” 2019. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Ronanki S. Prosody generation for text-to-speech synthesis. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Edinburgh; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/36396.

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Ronanki S. Prosody generation for text-to-speech synthesis. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Edinburgh; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/36396

Universiteit Utrecht

7. Fonville, R.J. The role of intonation in the use of double negatives in Dutch.

Degree: 2013, Universiteit Utrecht

URL: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/278901

► Like for instance English, Dutch is a so-called double negation (DN) language. This means that if in Dutch you use two negatives in a single… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Semantics; Pragmatics; Negation; Prosody

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Fonville, R. J. (2013). The role of intonation in the use of double negatives in Dutch. (Masters Thesis). Universiteit Utrecht. Retrieved from http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/278901

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Fonville, R J. “The role of intonation in the use of double negatives in Dutch.” 2013. Masters Thesis, Universiteit Utrecht. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/278901.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Fonville, R J. “The role of intonation in the use of double negatives in Dutch.” 2013. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

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Fonville RJ. The role of intonation in the use of double negatives in Dutch. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/278901.

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Fonville RJ. The role of intonation in the use of double negatives in Dutch. [Masters Thesis]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2013. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/278901

University of Edinburgh

8. Ribeiro, Manuel Sam. Exploring Discourse-level Features for Audiobook-based Speech Synthesis.

Degree: 2013, University of Edinburgh

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8616

► Audiobooks are a powerful source of rich information for speech synthesis. Recent work has been focusing on this type of data to improve synthetic speech… (more)

▼ Audiobooks are a powerful source of rich information for speech synthesis. Recent work has been focusing on this type of data to improve synthetic speech on two essential dimensions: naturalness and expressiveness. In audiobooks, sentences are not spoken in isolation, as in traditional speech synthesis databases, which allow us to explore discourse-level effects in synthetic speech. Furthermore, audiobook readers often change their voices to impersonate certain characters or to convey particular emotions related to the text, essentially making their speech more expressive. We should be aware, however, that audiobooks are found data. They were not specifically designed for speech synthesis, and may lack the coverage that carefully designed databases would have. Also, especially with freely available materials, audiobook recordings may not have been performed in the best conditions and readers may not be professional voice talents. Regardless, recent work has shown that audiobook data can be a valuable asset. This work will conduct an exploratory analysis on audiobook data, focusing on discourse-level phenomena, with the intent of improving the naturalness and expressiveness of synthetic speech. Several topics in these two dimensions are explored considering the written paragraph as a unit of discourse. In terms of naturalness, we begin by exploring acoustic effects within the paragraph and at its boundaries, focusing on intonational (F0-based) and durational cues in speech production. We continue with the prediction of pause duration from the large audiobook corpus. As for expressiveness, we explore Cluster Adaptive Training (CAT) interpolation weight vectors. We analyze their distributions and propose several text-based features that might help explain their variability. We then build univariate and multivariate regression trees in order to predict CAT weight vectors from the suggested textual features. Given the exploratory nature of this work, some analyses and models are more successful than others, and some results inevitably lead to new hypotheses. We conclude with suggestions for future work for each of the observed topics. Advisors/Committee Members: King, Simon.

Subjects/Keywords: speech synthesis; audiobook; discourse; prosody

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Ribeiro, M. S. (2013). Exploring Discourse-level Features for Audiobook-based Speech Synthesis. (Thesis). University of Edinburgh. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8616

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ribeiro, Manuel Sam. “Exploring Discourse-level Features for Audiobook-based Speech Synthesis.” 2013. Thesis, University of Edinburgh. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8616.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ribeiro, Manuel Sam. “Exploring Discourse-level Features for Audiobook-based Speech Synthesis.” 2013. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

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Ribeiro MS. Exploring Discourse-level Features for Audiobook-based Speech Synthesis. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Edinburgh; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8616.

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Ribeiro MS. Exploring Discourse-level Features for Audiobook-based Speech Synthesis. [Thesis]. University of Edinburgh; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8616

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University of California – San Diego

9. Carroll, Lucien Serapio. Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec Word Prosody.

Degree: Linguistics, 2015, University of California – San Diego

URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0bs6b7mt

► This dissertation presents a phonological description and acoustic analysis of the word prosody of Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec, which involves both a complex tone system and… (more)

▼ This dissertation presents a phonological description and acoustic analysis of the word prosody of Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec, which involves both a complex tone system and a default stress system. The analysis of Nieves Mixtec word prosody is complicated by a close association between morphological structure and prosodic structure, and by the interactions between word prosody and phonation type, which has both contrastive and non-contrastive roles in the phonology. I contextualize these systems within the phonology of Nieves Mixtec as a whole, within the literature on other Mixtec varieties, and within the literature on cross-linguistic prosodic typology.The literature on prosodic typology indicates that stress is necessarily defined abstractly, as structured prominence realized differently in each language. Descriptions of stress in other Mixtec varieties widely report default stress on the initial syllable of the canonical bimoraic root, though some descriptions suggest final stress or mobile stress. I first present phonological evidence—from distributional restrictions, phonological processes, and loanword adaptation—that Nieves Mixtec word prosody does involve a stress system, based on trochaic feet aligned to the root. I then present an acoustic study comparing stressed syllables to unstressed syllables, for ten potential acoustic correlates of stress. The results indicate that the acoustic correlates of stress in Nieves Mixtec include segmental duration, intensity and periodicity.Building on analyses of other Mixtec tone systems, I show that the distribution of tone and the tone processes in Nieves Mixtec support an analysis in which morae may bear H, M or L tone, where M tone is underlyingly unspecified, and each morpheme may sponsor a final +H or +L floating tone. Bimoraic roots thus host up to two linked tones and one floating tone, while monomoraic clitics host just one linked tone and one floating tone, and tonal morphemes are limited to a single floating tone. I then present three studies describing the acoustic realization of tone and comparing the realization of tone in different prosodic types. The findings of these studies include a strong directional asymmetry in tonal coarticulation, increased duration at the word or phrase boundary, phonation differences among the tone categories, and F0 differences between the glottalization categories.

Subjects/Keywords: Linguistics; Acoustics; Prosody; Stress; Tone

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Carroll, L. S. (2015). Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec Word Prosody. (Thesis). University of California – San Diego. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0bs6b7mt

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Carroll, Lucien Serapio. “Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec Word Prosody.” 2015. Thesis, University of California – San Diego. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0bs6b7mt.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Carroll, Lucien Serapio. “Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec Word Prosody.” 2015. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

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Carroll LS. Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec Word Prosody. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0bs6b7mt.

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Carroll LS. Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec Word Prosody. [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2015. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0bs6b7mt

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UCLA

10. Koller, Bernhard. Studies in Tocharian Phonology above the Word-Level.

Degree: Indo-European Studies, 2015, UCLA

URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3dk2b17w

► The present work is a collection of studies on the Tocharian languages that focuses onthe phonological properties of units larger than the word. The first… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Linguistics; clitics; phonology; prosody; Tocharian

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Koller, B. (2015). Studies in Tocharian Phonology above the Word-Level. (Thesis). UCLA. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3dk2b17w

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Koller, Bernhard. “Studies in Tocharian Phonology above the Word-Level.” 2015. Thesis, UCLA. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3dk2b17w.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Koller, Bernhard. “Studies in Tocharian Phonology above the Word-Level.” 2015. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

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Koller B. Studies in Tocharian Phonology above the Word-Level. [Internet] [Thesis]. UCLA; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3dk2b17w.

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Koller B. Studies in Tocharian Phonology above the Word-Level. [Thesis]. UCLA; 2015. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3dk2b17w

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Cornell University

11. Ito, Satoshi. Bias And Prosody In Japanese Negative Polar Questions.

Degree: PhD, Linguistics, 2015, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39410

► This dissertation investigates the correlation between prosody and the speaker's bias in Japanese negative polar questions (henceforth, NPQs) without a sentence final particle. I argue… (more)

▼ This dissertation investigates the correlation between prosody and the speaker's bias in Japanese negative polar questions (henceforth, NPQs) without a sentence final particle. I argue that the prosodic contrast of the negative morpheme -na'i between accented and deaccented variants is correlated with the presence or polarity of the speaker's epistemic bias: while NPQs with deaccented -nai (P-type NPQs) often convey positive epistemic bias, NPQs with accented -na'i (NN-type NPQs) convey negative epistemic bias or represent that the speaker has no epistemic bias. In this respect, Japanese NPQs show a bifold difference with English NPQs, in the way they express the polarity of bias, and in the way they divide NPQs into subgroups. Some evidence is given to show that the prosodic patterns in Japanese NPQs are neither accidental nor in free variation, but rather intimately and robustly related to distinctions in the speaker's bias. Also, a case where the prosodic contrast disappears is discussed. I reject the analysis which claims that the prosodic contrast is due to post-focus pitch reduction, and argue that the contrast is due to deaacentuation, a phenomenon which should not be identified with is demonstrably distinct from post-focus reduction. I also discuss the non-truth-conditional aspect of the meanings of Japanese NPQs (e.g. bias). I argue that NN-type NPQs (those with negative bias) and P-type NPQs also demonstrate epistemic bias (concerning belief or expectation) and desiderative bias (concerning desire). I clarify several conditions which are required for each type of Japanese NPQ to be asked felicitously to convey a specific kind of epistemic bias ("epistemic" here is the general term independent of specific modal flavors). These findings point to directions for further work on other types of Japanese NPQs. I also introduce the results of two types of experiment, a naturalness rating test and a comprehension test, which were conducted to support my claim concerning the correlation between prosody and bias in Japanese NPQs. I show that the results are consistent with those claims. Advisors/Committee Members: Whitman, John (chair), Abusch, Dorit (committee member), Rooth, Mats (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Bias; Prosody; Negative Polar Questions

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Ito, S. (2015). Bias And Prosody In Japanese Negative Polar Questions. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39410

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ito, Satoshi. “Bias And Prosody In Japanese Negative Polar Questions.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39410.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ito, Satoshi. “Bias And Prosody In Japanese Negative Polar Questions.” 2015. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Ito S. Bias And Prosody In Japanese Negative Polar Questions. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39410.

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Ito S. Bias And Prosody In Japanese Negative Polar Questions. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39410

Penn State University

12. Maggi, Mirella C. Effective Connectivity During Affective Prosody Processing in Children.

Degree: 2017, Penn State University

URL: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/14294mcm5481

► Affective prosody is defined as the paralingustic cues in the voice that convey emotions (Banse & Scherer, 1996). Before they are able to accurately label… (more)

▼ Affective prosody is defined as the paralingustic cues in the voice that convey emotions (Banse & Scherer, 1996). Before they are able to accurately label prosodies, infants and young children perceive and discriminate among them. It is likely that physical properties of the emotional environment, including affective prosodies, influence children’s developmental outcomes. Yet little is known about children’s neural processing of affective prosody cues as the majority of the neuroimaging studies examining the neural correlates of affective prosody processing has been conducted with adults, with the exception of a small body of literature on infants. Seeking to address this gap, this dissertation investigated neural processing of affective prosody in 6-to-10-year old children. It was hypothesized that affective prosody would be associated with effective connectivity among neural regions identified by two prominent neuroscience models. Furthermore, it was hypothesized that affective prosody would modulate effective connectivity. To investigate these questions data from a study utilizing functional magnetic resonance imaging were examined using effective connectivity analyses and graph theory measures. Results partially supported the hypotheses. At the group level, effective connectivity was observed only among regions identified by one of the neuroscience models. However, analyses revealed heterogeneity in effective connectivity at the individual level indicating that all regions were implicated in and functionally connected when children processed different prosodies. Moreover, analyses of graph theory metrics indicated that there were no differences in effective connectivity at the global network level, however there were differences in properties of specific nodes when children processed angry prosody relative to neutral prosody. These findings and implications for future studies are discussed. Advisors/Committee Members: Pamela M. Cole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor, Pamela M. Cole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Committee Member, K. Suzanne Scherf, Committee Member, Gregory M. Fosco, Outside Member.

Subjects/Keywords: effective connectivity; affective prosody; children

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Maggi, M. C. (2017). Effective Connectivity During Affective Prosody Processing in Children. (Thesis). Penn State University. Retrieved from https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/14294mcm5481

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Maggi, Mirella C. “Effective Connectivity During Affective Prosody Processing in Children.” 2017. Thesis, Penn State University. Accessed March 01, 2021. https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/14294mcm5481.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Maggi, Mirella C. “Effective Connectivity During Affective Prosody Processing in Children.” 2017. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Maggi MC. Effective Connectivity During Affective Prosody Processing in Children. [Internet] [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/14294mcm5481.

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Maggi MC. Effective Connectivity During Affective Prosody Processing in Children. [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2017. Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/14294mcm5481

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University of Saskatchewan

13. O'Reilly, Patrick 1988-. Candle Bearers: Poems.

Degree: 2016, University of Saskatchewan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/7360

► The anonymous priest at the centre of Candle Bearers is suffering an attack of divine writer’s block. The serialized poems of this thesis follow the… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Poetry. Prosody. Long-Form.

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O'Reilly, P. 1. (2016). Candle Bearers: Poems. (Thesis). University of Saskatchewan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10388/7360

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

O'Reilly, Patrick 1988-. “Candle Bearers: Poems.” 2016. Thesis, University of Saskatchewan. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/7360.

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O'Reilly, Patrick 1988-. “Candle Bearers: Poems.” 2016. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

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O'Reilly P1. Candle Bearers: Poems. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Saskatchewan; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/7360.

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O'Reilly P1. Candle Bearers: Poems. [Thesis]. University of Saskatchewan; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/7360

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Southern Illinois University

14. Thomas, Airica C.R. THE EMERGENT PROSODIC SYSTEM(S) OF BILBAO-AREA STANDARD BASQUE.

Degree: MA, Applied Linguistics, 2020, Southern Illinois University

URL: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2686

► The aim of this study is to contribute to the larger body of research concerned with the prosodic systems of the Basque dialects currently… (more)

▼ The aim of this study is to contribute to the larger body of research concerned with the prosodic systems of the Basque dialects currently spoken in Southern Basque country. More specifically, the author focuses on Standard Basque from the Bilbao area and its potential prosodic system(s). Standard Basque was phonologically codified by the Basque Academy, but there was no prosodic system provided by the Basque Academy. Although initial investigations have been undertaken by Hualde, more current research has shown that the standard spoken outside of the classroom is different from that which is taught (Lantto, 2019; Rodríguez-Ordóñez, 2016). Given that prosody is rarely taught within the classroom, it would not be surprising for differences to be found. The most obvious difference between Standard Basque and some of the traditional dialects is that Standard has no word-level contrastive stress; functions such as singular/plural distinctions and case are marked by postpositions. What has been determined is that the prosodic system of Standard Basque, or Batua, patterns closely to that of Gipuzkoan Basque. However, as noted by Hualde & Elordieta (2014), there is little knowledge regarding the variation of the functioning of Standard Basque’s acoustic correlates. As stated by Elordieta & Hualde (2001), it is only after a comparison of the intonational characteristics of the currently spoken dialects has been conducted that a typological categorization of Basque prosodic systems can be made. As Standard Basque was not codified with a prosodic system, it ultimately comes down to what individual speakers and speaker groups have done to account for this in their standard dialect productions. It cannot be presumed that the prosody of SB (Standard Basque) found in one region will exactly line up with prosody found in other regions; these too would need to be documented and analyzed as prosodic sub-systems. One major gap in current research is the analysis of intonation at the phrasal level; Gaminde et al. (2011) look at acoustic correlates and their respective force, but only at the word level. While Hualde looks at intonation, the study uses Gipuzkoan Basque used as a substratum, which constricts the findings to that particular dialectal region. For this reason, the dialect of Batua spoken in the Bilbao area proves to be worth investigating. The local dialect of the area was long ago lost, such that Batua could be said to be the Bilbao dialect. The revitalization movement of the 1960s brought about a significant number of new speakers, who learned the standard variety in school. To add to this, Bilbao’s presence as a major commercial hub has made it so that there is a vast number of regional vernaculars circulating throughout the area, all in contact with one another. For this study, data was taken from 6 Basque-Spanish bilinguals whose primary dialect of Basque is the standard, that participated in two experimental tasks: eliciting words in isolation in one task and eliciting neutral declaratives and yes-no questions in… Advisors/Committee Members: Rodríguez-Ordóñez, Itxaso.

Subjects/Keywords: Basque; Prosody; Standard Basque

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Thomas, A. C. R. (2020). THE EMERGENT PROSODIC SYSTEM(S) OF BILBAO-AREA STANDARD BASQUE. (Masters Thesis). Southern Illinois University. Retrieved from https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2686

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Thomas, Airica C R. “THE EMERGENT PROSODIC SYSTEM(S) OF BILBAO-AREA STANDARD BASQUE.” 2020. Masters Thesis, Southern Illinois University. Accessed March 01, 2021. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2686.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Thomas, Airica C R. “THE EMERGENT PROSODIC SYSTEM(S) OF BILBAO-AREA STANDARD BASQUE.” 2020. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Thomas ACR. THE EMERGENT PROSODIC SYSTEM(S) OF BILBAO-AREA STANDARD BASQUE. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Southern Illinois University; 2020. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2686.

Council of Science Editors:

Thomas ACR. THE EMERGENT PROSODIC SYSTEM(S) OF BILBAO-AREA STANDARD BASQUE. [Masters Thesis]. Southern Illinois University; 2020. Available from: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2686

University of Debrecen

15. Csibi, Alexandra. The Influence of Musical Training on L2 Intonation, Phonology and Verbal Memory .

Degree: DE – TEK – Bölcsészettudományi Kar, 2013, University of Debrecen

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/156162

► The aim of this paper was to explore how musical training affects such L2 abilities as auditory processing (intonation, phonology) and verbal memory. For seeing… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: music; neuroanatomy; prosody; phonology; vocabulary

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Csibi, A. (2013). The Influence of Musical Training on L2 Intonation, Phonology and Verbal Memory . (Thesis). University of Debrecen. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2437/156162

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Csibi, Alexandra. “The Influence of Musical Training on L2 Intonation, Phonology and Verbal Memory .” 2013. Thesis, University of Debrecen. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2437/156162.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Csibi, Alexandra. “The Influence of Musical Training on L2 Intonation, Phonology and Verbal Memory .” 2013. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Csibi A. The Influence of Musical Training on L2 Intonation, Phonology and Verbal Memory . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Debrecen; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/156162.

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Csibi A. The Influence of Musical Training on L2 Intonation, Phonology and Verbal Memory . [Thesis]. University of Debrecen; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/156162

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Boston College

16. Zhang, Xuan. How Affective Properties of Voice Influence Memory and Social Perception.

Degree: PhD, Psychology, 2016, Boston College

URL: http://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:107192

► Human voice carries precious information about a person. From a brief vocalization to a spoken sentence, listeners rapidly form perceptual judgments of transient affective states… (more)

▼ Human voice carries precious information about a person. From a brief vocalization to a spoken sentence, listeners rapidly form perceptual judgments of transient affective states such as happiness, as well as perceptual judgments of the more stable social traits such as trustworthiness. In social interactions, sometimes it is not just what we say – but how we say it – that matters. This dissertation sought to better understand how affective properties in voice influence memory and how they subserve social perception. To these ends, I investigated the effect of affective prosody on memory for speech by manipulating both prosody valence and semantic valence, I explored the fundamental dimensions of social perception from voice, and I discussed the relationship of those social dimensions to affective dimensions of voice. In the first chapter, I examined how prosody valence influences memory for speech that varied in semantic valence. Participants listened to narratives spoken in neutral, positive, and negative prosody and recalled as much as they could of the narrative content. Importantly, the arousal level of the affective prosody was controlled across the different prosody valence conditions. Results showed that prosody valence influenced memory for speech content and the effect depended on the relationship between prosody valence and semantic valence. Specifically, congruence between prosody and semantic valence influenced memory. When people were listening to neutral content, affective prosody (either positive or negative) impaired memory. When listening to positive or negative content, incongruent prosody led to better recall. The present research shows that it is not just what you say, but also how you say it that will influence what people remember of your message. In the second chapter, I explored the fundamental dimensions of social perception from voices compared to faces, using a data-driven approach. Participants were encouraged to freely write down anything that came to mind about the voice they heard or the face they saw. Descriptors were classified into categories and the most frequently occurred social trait categories were selected. A separate group of participants rated the voices and faces on the selected social traits. Principal component analyses revealed that female voices were evaluated mostly on three dimensions: attractiveness, trustworthiness, and dominance; whereas male voices were evaluated mostly on two dimensions: social engagement and trustworthiness. For social evaluation of faces, a similar two-dimensional structure of social engagement and trustworthiness was found for both genders. The gender difference in social perception of voice is discussed with respect to gender stereotypes and the role voice pitch played in perceived attractiveness and dominance. This study indicates that both modality (voice vs. face) and gender impact the fundamental dimensions of social perception. Overall, the findings of this dissertation indicate that the affective quality in our voice not only influence… Advisors/Committee Members: Lisa F. Barrett (Thesis advisor), Hiram Brownell (Thesis advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: affect; memory; person perception; prosody

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Zhang, X. (2016). How Affective Properties of Voice Influence Memory and Social Perception. (Doctoral Dissertation). Boston College. Retrieved from http://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:107192

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Zhang, Xuan. “How Affective Properties of Voice Influence Memory and Social Perception.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Boston College. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:107192.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Zhang, Xuan. “How Affective Properties of Voice Influence Memory and Social Perception.” 2016. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Zhang X. How Affective Properties of Voice Influence Memory and Social Perception. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Boston College; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:107192.

Council of Science Editors:

Zhang X. How Affective Properties of Voice Influence Memory and Social Perception. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Boston College; 2016. Available from: http://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:107192

University of Manitoba

17. Hamidzadeh, Khashayar. Reduplication in Paraguayan Guaraní: a descriptive account.

Degree: Linguistics, 2014, University of Manitoba

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/23201

► This thesis presents a primarily descriptive account of the structural and meaning properties of verb and numeral reduplication in Paraguayan Guaraní, a Tupí-Guaraní language spoken… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: reduplication; Guaraní; prosody; morphology

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Hamidzadeh, K. (2014). Reduplication in Paraguayan Guaraní: a descriptive account. (Masters Thesis). University of Manitoba. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1993/23201

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Hamidzadeh, Khashayar. “Reduplication in Paraguayan Guaraní: a descriptive account.” 2014. Masters Thesis, University of Manitoba. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/23201.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hamidzadeh, Khashayar. “Reduplication in Paraguayan Guaraní: a descriptive account.” 2014. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Hamidzadeh K. Reduplication in Paraguayan Guaraní: a descriptive account. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Manitoba; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/23201.

Council of Science Editors:

Hamidzadeh K. Reduplication in Paraguayan Guaraní: a descriptive account. [Masters Thesis]. University of Manitoba; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/23201

University of Texas – Arlington

18. -9004-6202. Prosodic Phonology in Oklahoma Cherokee.

Degree: PhD, Linguistics, 2018, University of Texas – Arlington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10106/27552

► In this dissertation, I provide an analysis for word level prosody in Cherokee, a Southern Iroquoian language spoken in Northeastern Oklahoma and Western North Carolina.… (more)

▼ In this dissertation, I provide an analysis for word level prosody in Cherokee, a Southern Iroquoian language spoken in Northeastern Oklahoma and Western North Carolina. Focusing on Cherokee as it is spoken in Oklahoma, I analyze right edges of Cherokee words, showing that the boundary tone is predictable, though its distribution is conditioned by lexical tonal phonology and other word-final phenomena. In order to account for the distribution of the boundary tone, I must first provide an analysis of lexical tone in Cherokee. There have been previous comprehensive tone analyses (Lindsey 1985; Wright 1996; Uchihara 2013), which argue for a tonal inventory with two underlying tones (high and lowfall), a superhigh accent, and a default low which does not interact with the tonal phonology. I summarize these previous analyses and discuss what generalizations they can and cannot account for. I also argue that some low pitches in Cherokee are the surface realization of an underlying low tone. By including an underlying low tone in the tonal inventory of Cherokee, problematic surface pitch sequences from previous research can be explained. Before analyzing the boundary tone, I show all possible syllable shapes and discuss Word-Final Vowel Deletion, an optional fast speech process which often results in non-canonical word-final codas. I argue that there is a prosodic word which maps to a morphosyntactic word, as well as a larger prosodic word which includes enclitics. I also describe clitic linearization and attachment, and discuss how Cherokee clitics show a number of typologically unusual properties. Finally, I describe all possible alignments of the boundary tone. While mentions of the boundary tone in previous literature claim that the boundary tone only appears on word- final vowels, I show a much wider range of possible surface positions for the boundary tone: 1) the boundary tone appears on word-final vowel, 2) the boundary tone appears on a non word-final vowel, and 3) the boundary tone does not appear at all. I use a Stratal OT framework to account for the alignment of the boundary tone, as well as interactions between the surface position of the boundary tone and lexical tonal phonology, clitic attachment, and Word-Final Vowel Deletion. Advisors/Committee Members: Sabbagh, Joseph (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: Linguistics; Cherokee; Phonology; Prosody

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-9004-6202. (2018). Prosodic Phonology in Oklahoma Cherokee. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Texas – Arlington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10106/27552

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

-9004-6202. “Prosodic Phonology in Oklahoma Cherokee.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Texas – Arlington. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10106/27552.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

-9004-6202. “Prosodic Phonology in Oklahoma Cherokee.” 2018. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

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-9004-6202. Prosodic Phonology in Oklahoma Cherokee. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Texas – Arlington; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10106/27552.

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-9004-6202. Prosodic Phonology in Oklahoma Cherokee. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Texas – Arlington; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10106/27552

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University of Southern California

19. Ipek, Canan. The phonology and phonetics of Turkish intonation.

Degree: PhD, Linguistics, 2015, University of Southern California

URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/557156/rec/7083

The aim of this study is to provide a phonological model of Turkish intonation using the framework of Autosegmental-metrical model of intonational phonology. Advisors/Committee Members: Zubizarreta, Maria Luisa (Committee Chair), Goldstein, Louis (Committee Member), Jun, Sun-Ah (Committee Member), Saltarelli, Mario (Committee Member).

Subjects/Keywords: intonation; prosody; Turkish; prosodic typology

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Ipek, C. (2015). The phonology and phonetics of Turkish intonation. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/557156/rec/7083

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ipek, Canan. “The phonology and phonetics of Turkish intonation.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/557156/rec/7083.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ipek, Canan. “The phonology and phonetics of Turkish intonation.” 2015. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Ipek C. The phonology and phonetics of Turkish intonation. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/557156/rec/7083.

Council of Science Editors:

Ipek C. The phonology and phonetics of Turkish intonation. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2015. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/557156/rec/7083

University of Georgia

20. Wachter, Allison Rebecca. Semantic prosody and intensifier variation in academic speech.

Degree: 2014, University of Georgia

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/28146

► The study of English intensifiers has been of interest in sociolinguistic research. This paper analyzes the variation of common intensifiers very and really in a… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: semantic prosody; intensifiers; language variation

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Wachter, A. R. (2014). Semantic prosody and intensifier variation in academic speech. (Thesis). University of Georgia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10724/28146

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Wachter, Allison Rebecca. “Semantic prosody and intensifier variation in academic speech.” 2014. Thesis, University of Georgia. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10724/28146.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Wachter, Allison Rebecca. “Semantic prosody and intensifier variation in academic speech.” 2014. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Wachter AR. Semantic prosody and intensifier variation in academic speech. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Georgia; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/28146.

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Council of Science Editors:

Wachter AR. Semantic prosody and intensifier variation in academic speech. [Thesis]. University of Georgia; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/28146

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University of Georgia

21. Benjamin, Rebekah Anne. The predictive value of prosody.

Degree: 2014, University of Georgia

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/25739

► Fluency in reading is ideally determined by measuring rate, accuracy, and prosodic qualities in the oral reading of a child. However, prosodic measures vary widely… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Fluency; Prosody; Oral reading; Text difficulty; Second grade; Comprehension; Prosody measurement

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Benjamin, R. A. (2014). The predictive value of prosody. (Thesis). University of Georgia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10724/25739

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Benjamin, Rebekah Anne. “The predictive value of prosody.” 2014. Thesis, University of Georgia. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10724/25739.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Benjamin, Rebekah Anne. “The predictive value of prosody.” 2014. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Benjamin RA. The predictive value of prosody. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Georgia; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/25739.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Benjamin RA. The predictive value of prosody. [Thesis]. University of Georgia; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/25739

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

22. Mo, Yoonsook. Prosody production and perception with conversational speech.

Degree: PhD, 1864, 2011, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18560

► Speech utterances are more than the linear concatenation of individual phonemes or words. They are organized by prosodic structures comprising phonological units of different sizes… (more)

▼ Speech utterances are more than the linear concatenation of individual phonemes or words. They are organized by prosodic structures comprising phonological units of different sizes (e.g., syllable, foot, word, and phrase) and the prominence relations among them. As the linguistic structure of spoken languages, prosody serves an important function in speech communication: prosodic phrasing groups words into pragmatically and semantically coherent small chunks and prosodic prominence encodes discourse-level status and rhythmic structure of a word within a phrase. In speech communication, speakers shape spoken language through the modulation of multiple acoustic parameters related to tempo, pitch, loudness, vocal effort, and strength of articulation in order to signal prosodic structures. Prosody is therefore a major source of phonetic variation in speech and in particular, elements at the edges of prosodic units and those assigned prominence are phonetically distinct from similar elements in different prosodic contexts. From a listener???s standpoint, one must attend to this phonetic variation, and, more specifically, to acoustic variation in order to reconstruct the prosodic context and to understand the meaning of an utterance as intended by the speaker. This thesis concerns the communication of prosody in everyday speech, with a primary focus on acoustic variation arising from prosodic context and its interaction with other factors including syntactic, semantic, pragmatic structure, and word predictability. More specifically, the goal of the thesis is to understand prosody in terms of the mechanisms of speech production, to identify the cues that guide listeners??? interpretation of prosodic structure, and to establish statistical models of the acoustic encoding of prosody, in everyday conversation. This thesis introduces a new method of prosody annotation, called Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT), which provides reliable and consistent prosody annotations, is comparable to highly trained, expert listeners???, and better approximates prosody perception in every speech communication. In RPT, prosody annotation is obtained through the real-time tasks of prosody transcription by a large group of ???ordinary??? (untrained, non-expert, and thus na????ve in terms of the phonetics and phonology of prosody annotation) listeners, on the basis of auditory impression only. On the basis of sets of prosodically-annotated speech excerpts extracted from the Buckeye Corpus of spontaneous conversational speech of American English through RPT, the rest of this thesis reports findings regarding prosody production and perception in everyday speech communication. With various statistical methods including non-parametric Spearman???s correlation and multiple linear regression analysis, this thesis demonstrates that given the invariance in a set of acoustic parameters, prosodic prominence is signaled through a combination of multiple acoustic parameters from which each speaker may choose any subset as their selection, and… Advisors/Committee Members: Cole, Jennifer S. (advisor), Cole, Jennifer S. (Committee Chair), Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark A. (committee member), Shih, Chilin (committee member), Watson, Duane G. (committee member), Shosted, Ryan K. (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Acoustics; Prosody Production; Prosody Perception; Speaker Variablity; Normalization

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Mo, Y. (2011). Prosody production and perception with conversational speech. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18560

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Mo, Yoonsook. “Prosody production and perception with conversational speech.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18560.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Mo, Yoonsook. “Prosody production and perception with conversational speech.” 2011. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Mo Y. Prosody production and perception with conversational speech. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18560.

Council of Science Editors:

Mo Y. Prosody production and perception with conversational speech. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18560

Bowling Green State University

23. Corra, Marissa D. THE GENESIS OF SILENT READING PROSODY: AN EXPLORATION OF FOUR PROSODIC READERS.

Degree: MEd, Reading, 2006, Bowling Green State University

URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143476895

► Most research and instruction ignores the hallmark of fluency achievement: prosody (Schwanenflugel, Hamilton, Kuhn, Wisenbaker, & Stahl, 2004). Prosody is the component of fluency that… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: prosody; silent reading prosody; oral reading prosody; reading

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Corra, M. D. (2006). THE GENESIS OF SILENT READING PROSODY: AN EXPLORATION OF FOUR PROSODIC READERS. (Masters Thesis). Bowling Green State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143476895

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Corra, Marissa D. “THE GENESIS OF SILENT READING PROSODY: AN EXPLORATION OF FOUR PROSODIC READERS.” 2006. Masters Thesis, Bowling Green State University. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143476895.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Corra, Marissa D. “THE GENESIS OF SILENT READING PROSODY: AN EXPLORATION OF FOUR PROSODIC READERS.” 2006. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Corra MD. THE GENESIS OF SILENT READING PROSODY: AN EXPLORATION OF FOUR PROSODIC READERS. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Bowling Green State University; 2006. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143476895.

Council of Science Editors:

Corra MD. THE GENESIS OF SILENT READING PROSODY: AN EXPLORATION OF FOUR PROSODIC READERS. [Masters Thesis]. Bowling Green State University; 2006. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143476895

UCLA

24. Ahn, Byron Thomas. Giving Reflexivity a Voice: Twin Reflexives in English.

Degree: Linguistics, 2014, UCLA

URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8g31j3gn

► Across languages, there is variability in the surface realization of reflexivity, according to various sets of properties. For example, there are languages (e.g. Greek, Lakhota)… (more)

▼ Across languages, there is variability in the surface realization of reflexivity, according to various sets of properties. For example, there are languages (e.g. Greek, Lakhota) that seem to treat some of their reflexive clauses as being in a non-active voice, similar to a passive. There are also languages (e.g. French, Kannada) in which reflexivity is encoded differently depending on whether the antecedent is the subject or not. In this way, English seems to be different: reflexivity is apparently realized in a homogeneous way - filling an argument position with an anaphoric expression like themselves - regardless of clausal voice or grammatical role of the antecedent.This homogeneity is an illusion. Despite using a single set of anaphoric expressions for reflexivity in various situations, reflexive anaphors in English fall into two classes: those that exhibit exceptional prosodic behaviors, and those that do not.This exceptionality can be directly observed in two domains: the distribution of "default" phrasal stress, and the distribution of a certain focal accent. From the results of expirments on speech production and perception, I show that the distribution of exceptionally behaving reflexive anaphors is structurally constrained. This implicates that there must a be syntactic account for these prosodic properties.Assuming that syntactic structure plays a near deterministic role in prosody (an assumption going back to even the earliest generative work on phrasal stress; Chomsky and Halle 1968:25), I argue for a more refined syntactic structure of reflexivity. Briefly, I demonstrate a sub-class of reflexive anaphors in English undergo a syntactic movement (to a reflexive VoiceP). This movement, along with independently motivated mechanisms for placement of phrasal stress and focal accents, derives the heterogeneous prosodic behaviors of reflexives in English. Crucially, this analysis does not require the prosodic component to have any stipulations for specific (classes of) words, in line with a Minimalist approach to the Syntax-Prosody Interface.This model of reflexivity simultaneously reduces the amount of theoretical machinery necessary to achieve descriptive adequacy, while also enhancing the model's predictive power. Moreover, this research has broad theoretical implications, beyond just reflexives in English. This theory is able to unify the various morpho-syntactic instantiations of reflexivizing functions - across languages - as being related to the Reflexive VoiceP. It also establishes a core set of properties that define clausal reflexivity, each of which are the result of the formal properties of the reflexive Voice0. Finally, it provides direct support for the hypothesis that syntactic and prosodic structures are maximally isomorphic, with prosodic cues in the signal giving direct evidence for otherwise invisible syntactic structure.

Subjects/Keywords: Linguistics; Binding; Morphology; Prosody; Reflexive; Semantics; Syntax

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Ahn, B. T. (2014). Giving Reflexivity a Voice: Twin Reflexives in English. (Thesis). UCLA. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8g31j3gn

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ahn, Byron Thomas. “Giving Reflexivity a Voice: Twin Reflexives in English.” 2014. Thesis, UCLA. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8g31j3gn.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ahn, Byron Thomas. “Giving Reflexivity a Voice: Twin Reflexives in English.” 2014. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Ahn BT. Giving Reflexivity a Voice: Twin Reflexives in English. [Internet] [Thesis]. UCLA; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8g31j3gn.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Ahn BT. Giving Reflexivity a Voice: Twin Reflexives in English. [Thesis]. UCLA; 2014. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8g31j3gn

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UCLA

25. Bishop, Jason Brandon. Prenuclear Accentuation in English: Phonetics, Phonology, and Information Structure.

Degree: Linguistics, 2013, UCLA

URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/48t4q7cx

► A primary function of prosody in many languages is to convey information structure – the "packaging" of a sentence's content into categories such as "focus", "given"… (more)

▼ A primary function of prosody in many languages is to convey information structure – the "packaging" of a sentence's content into categories such as "focus", "given" and "topic". In English and other West Germanic languages it is widely assumed that focus is signaled prosodically by the location of a nuclear pitch accent. As a result, prenuclear, or "secondary" accents are standardly regarded as optional, phonological objects that are unrelated to the information structural representation. This dissertation investigates, from the perspective of the listener, how valid this claim about prenuclear accents is. As a case study, I consider a putative prosodic ambiguity: the size of the focus constituent in English SVO constructions (i.e., "broad focus" on a VP versus "narrow focus" on an object). My approach to this issue is essentially a three-pronged one, considering the production, perception and processing of prenuclear accents in relation to this contrast. Recent phonetic evidence from production studies is the starting point for a set of perception experiments (Chapter 2) and a pair of cross-modal priming experiments (Chapter 3). Both sets of experiments provide evidence that listeners have expectations about focus-prenuclear accent correspondences that mirror patterns reported in speakers' productions, suggesting that the broad versus narrow focus contrast is not a genuine prosodic ambiguity. An additional matter that is investigated is the extent to which individual differences in "cognitive processing styles" (autistic traits and verbal working memory) contribute to variation among listeners. To account for the experimental findings, I argue that the prosodic realization of the size of the focus constituent in English SVOs represents conventionalized, phonological behavior. The variation, it is shown, can be captured by an Autosegmental Metrical model of prosodic structure that includes syntagmatic relations of tonal prominence along the lines proposed by Ladd (1990). This level of "tonal metrical structure" represents linguistically-specified pitch range, and it is demonstrated that such structure is independently needed to account for the prosodic realization of several other information structural contrasts.

Subjects/Keywords: Linguistics; information structure; intonation; priming; prosody

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Bishop, J. B. (2013). Prenuclear Accentuation in English: Phonetics, Phonology, and Information Structure. (Thesis). UCLA. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/48t4q7cx

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Bishop, Jason Brandon. “Prenuclear Accentuation in English: Phonetics, Phonology, and Information Structure.” 2013. Thesis, UCLA. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/48t4q7cx.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Bishop, Jason Brandon. “Prenuclear Accentuation in English: Phonetics, Phonology, and Information Structure.” 2013. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Bishop JB. Prenuclear Accentuation in English: Phonetics, Phonology, and Information Structure. [Internet] [Thesis]. UCLA; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/48t4q7cx.

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Council of Science Editors:

Bishop JB. Prenuclear Accentuation in English: Phonetics, Phonology, and Information Structure. [Thesis]. UCLA; 2013. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/48t4q7cx

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Vanderbilt University

26. Soman, Uma Gokhale. Characterizing Perception of Prosody in Children with Hearing Loss.

Degree: PhD, Hearing and Speech Sciences, 2017, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10908

► The ability to adequately perceive and utilize the prosody of spoken language is important for successful communication. Children with hearing loss who use cochlear implants… (more)

▼ The ability to adequately perceive and utilize the prosody of spoken language is important for successful communication. Children with hearing loss who use cochlear implants have demonstrated deficits in perception of stress and intonation in spoken language, but not rhythm in music, compared to children who use hearing aids or children who have normal hearing. These deficits have been attributed in part to limitations of cochlear implant technology. Wearing a hearing aid in addition to the cochlear implant can reduce some of these deficits. In this study, perception of stress, intonation, and speech rhythm was compared among 8-16 year old children with hearing loss who used cochlear implants, children with hearing loss who used bimodal technology - one cochlear implant and one hearing aid in the contralateral ear, and children with normal hearing. The results of this study indicated that most children were sensitive to stress, intonation, and rhythm of speech. Children with hearing loss were comparable to children with normal hearing in their sensitivity to stress and rhythm, and intonation present in unfiltered, connected speech, but were deficient in their perception of intonation present in low-pass filtered speech. Children with hearing loss were comparable to children with normal hearing when identifying the language of an utterance based on phonemic and prosodic cues, but were deficient when minimal phonemic cues were present. Children who used bilateral cochlear implants performed similarly to children who used bimodal technology, indicating that sensitivity to prosodic features was possible with either of the hearing technologies. Audiological factors such as early amplification, longer duration of auditory exposure, and adequate low-frequency access had a positive impact on perception of prosody in speech. The finding that children with hearing loss were comparable to children with normal hearing in their perception of stress and intonation is in contrast to previous findings, and might be attributed to differences in task design as well as in audiological and intervention characteristics of the children in this study compared to previous studies. Advisors/Committee Members: Rene Gifford (committee member), Anne Marie Tharpe (committee member), John Rieser (committee member), Karen Iler Kirk (committee member), Andrea Hillock-Dunn (committee member), Daniel H. Ashmead (Committee Chair).

Subjects/Keywords: Hearing loss; cochlear implants; children; perception; prosody

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Soman, U. G. (2017). Characterizing Perception of Prosody in Children with Hearing Loss. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10908

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Soman, Uma Gokhale. “Characterizing Perception of Prosody in Children with Hearing Loss.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10908.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Soman, Uma Gokhale. “Characterizing Perception of Prosody in Children with Hearing Loss.” 2017. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Soman UG. Characterizing Perception of Prosody in Children with Hearing Loss. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10908.

Council of Science Editors:

Soman UG. Characterizing Perception of Prosody in Children with Hearing Loss. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10908

McMaster University

27. Matharu, Kiran. Storytelling as a Fundamental Form of Acting.

Degree: MSc, 2019, McMaster University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/24900

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Acting is a process of pretending to be someone who the actor is not. While acting is often considered to be a specialized skill of… (more)

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Acting is a process of pretending to be someone who the actor is not. While acting is often considered to be a specialized skill of trained professionals, a simple and perhaps universal form of acting occurs during oral storytelling, in which the storyteller acts out the characters of the story during the moments of dialogue and self-reflection. In order to examine this skill experimentally, we had both trained actors and untrained novices read four fairy tales aloud. The stories contained a series of contrastive characters that spanned age, gender, and species. The major dependent variables were the vocal parameters of pitch height, loudness, timbre, and speech rate. The results demonstrated that participants created distinguishable acoustic profiles for each character within a story, regardless of the story’s familiarity. Monotonic trend analyses revealed the sequential changes in vocal parameters that were produced as a function of the age, gender, and species of the represented characters. Linear mixed-effects models showed a significant effect of acting training on character portrayal, with actors showing more-expansive pitch depictions than novices. We argue that portraying characters during storytelling is one of the most fundamental forms of acting in human life.

Thesis

Master of Science (MSc)

Acting is a process of pretending to be someone who the actor is not. It is often thought of as a skill of trained professionals. We propose that oral storytelling is a form of everyday acting. When a storyteller reads aloud, they act out the characters of the story during moments of dialogue—when the characters themselves are speaking in the story. We explored the vocal portrayal of contrastive characters by both trained actors and non-actors as they read fairy tales aloud. The results revealed that participants, regardless of acting experience, portrayed the characters as predicted, performed the characters uniquely from each other, and remained consistent in their portrayal across a story. Actors were found to use a larger pitch range than non-actors, specifically for high-pitched characters. We argue that portraying characters during storytelling is one of the most fundamental forms of acting in human life.

Advisors/Committee Members: Brown, Steven, Psychology.

Subjects/Keywords: storytelling; acting; narrative; character; role playing; prosody

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Matharu, K. (2019). Storytelling as a Fundamental Form of Acting. (Masters Thesis). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/24900

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Matharu, Kiran. “Storytelling as a Fundamental Form of Acting.” 2019. Masters Thesis, McMaster University. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11375/24900.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Matharu, Kiran. “Storytelling as a Fundamental Form of Acting.” 2019. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Matharu K. Storytelling as a Fundamental Form of Acting. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. McMaster University; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/24900.

Council of Science Editors:

Matharu K. Storytelling as a Fundamental Form of Acting. [Masters Thesis]. McMaster University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/24900

Leiden University

28. Tulling, Maxime. Spoiler Alert: Processing of Sentence Final Particles in Dutch.

Degree: 2016, Leiden University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/42162

► Sentence final particles (SFPs) play an important role in the every-day spoken communication of various languages. For example, the addition of a Dutch intentional particle… (more)

▼ Sentence final particles (SFPs) play an important role in the every-day spoken communication of various languages. For example, the addition of a Dutch intentional particle hè or hoor to a bare declarative utterance such as het is lekker weer ‘the weather is great’ can make the difference between the sentence being interpreted as an agreement-seeking question, or a correction. Still, we know very little about the psycho- and neurolinguistic properties of the processing and production of final particles. The purpose of this thesis is to generate more research on the psycholinguistics side and to deepen the theoretical knowledge we have by gathering experimental data. There are theoretical reasons to assume that intentional SFPs play an important role from the beginning of sentence formulation. The SFP-head selects for the entire proposition as its complement, so it is possible that speakers plan the particle ahead before they start producing the rest of the sentence. This hypothesis also makes sense from a psycholinguistic perspective, as it is presumed that the intention of the speaker is already determined before he/she starts uttering a sentence. In this thesis, I focus on sentences in isolation, and investigate the production, planning and perception of Dutch pragmatic particles (i.e. SFPs) that convey the speaker’s intention. The question I pursued to answer is whether Dutch sentence final particles are planned in advance, or whether they are inserted at the final moment. To investigate the potential planning of intentional SFPs I conducted three experiments. In a production experiment (Experiment 1) I investigated whether the speaker already starts encoding the intention of the message with prosodic cues preceding the intentional particle. Such cues would indicate that the speaker is already building up the illocutionary force of the sentence before the particle. Results indicate that there are such cues, and that even though they are sometimes quite small, they are used quite consistently across participants. In Experiment 2, the gating-technique is used in a perception experiment to investigate whether these prosodic cues preceding the particle could possibly help the listener anticipate for the intention or attitude expressed by an utterance. The results of this experiment indicate that participants were not that good at anticipating the end of sentences containing the final particles hè and hoor in the given task. Experiment 3 directly addresses the question whether the speaker plans a final particle ahead or whether they integrate the particle at a later stage of production. This question is about how incremental and how far ahead a sentence is planned in production. In this experiment, I examined the production process of the intentional SFPs hè and hoor in Dutch with a variant on the picture-word-interference task to investigate whether the particles are planned in advance, or not. I created an experiment that manipulates the prime preceding colored pictures, which are associated in a training task with a… Advisors/Committee Members: Pablos Robles, Leticia (advisor), Gryllia, Stella (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: discourse particles; prosody; sentence planning; intentionality; linearization

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Tulling, M. (2016). Spoiler Alert: Processing of Sentence Final Particles in Dutch. (Masters Thesis). Leiden University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1887/42162

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Tulling, Maxime. “Spoiler Alert: Processing of Sentence Final Particles in Dutch.” 2016. Masters Thesis, Leiden University. Accessed March 01, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1887/42162.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Tulling, Maxime. “Spoiler Alert: Processing of Sentence Final Particles in Dutch.” 2016. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Tulling M. Spoiler Alert: Processing of Sentence Final Particles in Dutch. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Leiden University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/42162.

Council of Science Editors:

Tulling M. Spoiler Alert: Processing of Sentence Final Particles in Dutch. [Masters Thesis]. Leiden University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/42162

University of Connecticut

29. Green, Joshua. Cell Phone vs. Microphone: Judging Emotion in the Voice.

Degree: MA, Psychology, 2016, University of Connecticut

URL: https://opencommons.uconn.edu/gs_theses/868

► Abstract A remarkable amount of information is conveyed by the human voice. For example, the emotional state of a speaker is conveyed by vocal… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: prosody; vocal-communication; voice; speech; emotion

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Green, J. (2016). Cell Phone vs. Microphone: Judging Emotion in the Voice. (Masters Thesis). University of Connecticut. Retrieved from https://opencommons.uconn.edu/gs_theses/868

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Green, Joshua. “Cell Phone vs. Microphone: Judging Emotion in the Voice.” 2016. Masters Thesis, University of Connecticut. Accessed March 01, 2021. https://opencommons.uconn.edu/gs_theses/868.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Green, Joshua. “Cell Phone vs. Microphone: Judging Emotion in the Voice.” 2016. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Green J. Cell Phone vs. Microphone: Judging Emotion in the Voice. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Connecticut; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: https://opencommons.uconn.edu/gs_theses/868.

Council of Science Editors:

Green J. Cell Phone vs. Microphone: Judging Emotion in the Voice. [Masters Thesis]. University of Connecticut; 2016. Available from: https://opencommons.uconn.edu/gs_theses/868

Tampere University

30. Mikhuta, Maryna. The sound of radio speech : a comparative analysis of prosody in Swedish and Russian radio programs .

Degree: 2018, Tampere University

URL: https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/103340

► Prosody plays an important role in human communication processes. Moreover, the results of researches in intonation are actively used in various fields, e.g. the development… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: radio speech; intonation; prosody; Swedish; Russian

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Mikhuta, M. (2018). The sound of radio speech : a comparative analysis of prosody in Swedish and Russian radio programs . (Masters Thesis). Tampere University. Retrieved from https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/103340

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Mikhuta, Maryna. “The sound of radio speech : a comparative analysis of prosody in Swedish and Russian radio programs .” 2018. Masters Thesis, Tampere University. Accessed March 01, 2021. https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/103340.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Mikhuta, Maryna. “The sound of radio speech : a comparative analysis of prosody in Swedish and Russian radio programs .” 2018. Web. 01 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Mikhuta M. The sound of radio speech : a comparative analysis of prosody in Swedish and Russian radio programs . [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Tampere University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 01]. Available from: https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/103340.

Council of Science Editors:

Mikhuta M. The sound of radio speech : a comparative analysis of prosody in Swedish and Russian radio programs . [Masters Thesis]. Tampere University; 2018. Available from: https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/103340

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