Browse Dissertations and Theses - Linguistics by Subject "prosody"

  • Prosody and syntactic processing 
    Lee, Eun Kyung (2011-05-25)
    This dissertation examines whether and how two main aspects of prosody, intonational phrase boundaries and pitch accents, are used in syntactic processing. Traditionally, it has been argued that while intonational phrase ...

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  • Towards a hybrid model of speech prosody 
    Kimball, Amelia E. (2018-04-12)
    Speech is conveyed through a richly detailed acoustic signal, and each spoken instance of a word varies. Yet humans recognize words quickly, with few errors and typically with no conscious effort. Linguists hypothesize ...

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