pitch accent

Moving from phonology through morpho-phonology and morpho-syntax to syntax, they consider such aspects as the phonology and phonetics of laryngeal stop contrasts in Assamese, disharmony and decay: Itelmen vowel harmony in the 20th century, diachronic and synchronic aspects in the expression of temporal distance in the past: a process of grammaticalization in Italian compared with other Romance languages and English, and postverbial subjects and nuclear pitch accent in Italian wh-questions.

measuring intra-sentential pause, measuring pre- and post-pausal melody contours, and identifying pitch accent placement.

Regarding the goals to develop, in the home screen, it is indicated that "the goal of this tool is to enhance the awareness and understanding of the Japanese pitch accent with a suite of four features".

Shortly, I'll explain the distinction between these two forms of emphasis; for now, well note that even in ordinary language, the so-called sentence stress or pitch accent changes even when the lexical or word stresses don't.

For each of the remaining utterances, the presence and/or absence of the initial, medial and final pitch accent was observed.

This explains the significantly earlier location of [H.sup.*] in mono- and disyllabic utterances, and is a strong argument for the analysis of the contour as one pitch accent rather than composed of different tunes.

Background on Persian: Stress, Prosodic Structure, and Nuclear Pitch Accent

In L2 Estonian with moderate or strong accent, there appeared a straightforward transfer of at least one rising pitch accent from the intonation system of L1 into L2; the L1 intonation pattern with a high plateau (Russian pattern (a)) was often used instead of the Estonian pattern ending in a plateau (Estonian pattern (a)) in order to signal continuation from the part of the speaker.

The authors conclude that Kohistani Shina has a pitch accent system, rather than independently varying pitch and stress (p.

For the low-fall "with no preceding high pitch accent, an additional meaning of 'non-committal' or even 'grumbling' is conveyed ..." (Cruttenden 1997: 97).