15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15) Barcelona, Spain August 3-9, 2003

Prosodic Typology and Compound - Phrasal Contrasts

John Ingram, Thu Nguyen

University of Queensland, Australia

This study investigates pitch (F₀) and timing cues that distinguish compound words and phrases in left and right branching structures in three typologically different languages, English: a stress-accent language, stress timed, Japanese: a pitch-accent language, mora timed and Vietnamese: a tone language, syllable timed.

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Bibliographic reference.  Ingram, John / Nguyen, Thu (2003): "Prosodic typology and compound - phrasal contrasts", In ICPhS-15, 479-482.