Category: tonal alignment

book chapter preprint: On the nature of perceptual differences between accentual peaks and plateaux

Jonathan Barnes, Alejna Brugos, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel & Nanette Veilleux. (forthcoming). On the nature of perceptual differences between accentual peaks and plateaux. In: O. Niebuhr (ed.), Prosodies – Context, Function, Communication (pp. 93-118). Berlin/New York: de Gruyter. [pdf]

TCoG preprint: “Tonal Center of Gravity: A global approach to tonal implementation in a level-based intonational phonology”

Jonathan Barnes, Nanette Veilleux, Alejna Brugos, and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel. (Forthcoming). “Tonal Center of Gravity: A global approach to tonal implementation in a level-based intonational phonology.” Laboratory Phonology. [pdf] Abstract Recent evidence that pitch-movement shape can influence perceived alignment of rising (LH) pitch accents in several languages appears to challenge the well-established level-based approach to intonation […]