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Downstep effect and the interaction with focus and prosodic boundary in Mandarin Chinese 普通话中的下行效应及其与焦点和韵律边界的相互作用

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/TAL.2018-5

Bei Wang, F. Kügler, S. Genzel

引用次数: 2

The non-lax question prosody of Akan 阿坎的非松弛问题韵律

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/TAL.2018-1

S. Genzel

引用次数: 1

Metrical and Tonal Prominence in Swatou 低音的格律和调性突出

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/tal.2018-32

S. Yiu

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引用次数: 2

Perception and lexical encoding of tone in a restricted tone language: Developmental evidence from Limburgian 限制性声调语言中声调的感知和词汇编码:来自林堡语的发展证据

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/TAL.2018-22

S. Ramachers, S. Brouwer, J.P.M. Fikkert

引用次数: 1

Word Stress and Phrase Accent in Georgian 格鲁吉亚语中的单词重音和短语重音

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/TAL.2018-42

Lena Borise, Xavier Zientarski

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引用次数: 8

Context dependent and time-course dependent prosodic analysis 语境依赖和时程依赖的韵律分析

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/tal.2018-43

V. Silber-Varod, H. Kreiner, N. Amir

引用次数: 0

Influence of pitch dimensions on non-native tone perception by Dutch and Mandarin listeners 音高维度对荷兰语和普通话听者非母语声调感知的影响

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/tal.2018-51

Shuangshuang Hu, Ao Chen, R. Kager

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引用次数: 0

Tonality in Language: The Generative Theory of Tonal Music as a Framework for Prosodic Analysis of Poetry 语言中的调性:作为诗歌韵律分析框架的调性音乐生成理论

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/tal.2018-36

Hussein Hussein, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek, Timo Baumann

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引用次数: 4

Acoustic correlates of word-accent in Basque 巴斯克语单词重音的声学相关性

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/TAL.2018-20

J. Hualde, Ander Beristain

引用次数: 3

F0 perturbation in a "pitch-accent" language “音高重音”语言中的F0扰动

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/tal.2018-12

Jiayin Gao, T. Arai

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引用次数: 5