This study investigated the exploitation of acoustic cues (syllable duration and F0 contour) in perceiving Changsha stress, and revealed that both cues provided facilitation to the discerning of stress patterns. However, the effect of F0 contour weighs more than that of syllable duration…

This study sought to determine if in the production of Mandarin Tone 2 words by Changsha Mandarin speakers, discrimination is made between words going into the yang-ping/ru-sheng divides in Changsha Xiang …

This study tested the effects of three acoustic/segmental correlates, f0, duration, and vowel reduction on non-native perception of English stress …

This study studied the prosody of sarcasm in Mandarin Chinese. Different conversation scenarios were designed in the current study to elicit sarcastic and non-sarcastic recordings from native speakers of Beijing Mandarin …