How does intonation contribute to the expression of contrastive focus?

We expect the segmental pathway to play a more prominent role in the phonological transfer considering the less rich tone inventory in Mandarin. The cross- ... We explore these issues through the study of the the phonetic realization of a) constituent structure and b) suprasegmental contrasts. ... The general area of ... Comparing segmental and suprasegmental aspects of both languages, this study also discusses several problematic areas of pronunciation for Japanese learners of ... segmental and suprasegmental phonological changes are often times grouped in the same phonologically opaque category. For example, explosion from explode ... of phonemes in the z-line), and agreement ... notice that there is quite a difference between the "Exact Agreement on Inappropriate Only" and the. The comparison between phonological tone errors and segmental errors show similarities as well as differences. On the one hand, both kinds of errors show ... Recently I have also been working on the interaction between segmental and suprasegmental phonology ... My PhD thesis provides a comparison of selected aspects of ... Differences Between French and English in the Use of Suprasegmental Cues for the Short-Term Recall of Word Lists. Authors: Emilia C. Lew ... Oct 30, 2016 ... Segmental features are just the raw phonemes spoken, Suprasegmentals are things which modify the phonemes via speech, like intonation, stress. Oct 7, 2015 ... Structural path modeling first showed that the relation between decoding efficiency and both measures of phonology from fourth to fifth grade ...