This study explored the relation between empathy and phonetic convergence. The working hypothesis was that empathy among two individuals translates into a synchronic process impacting on pitch values. This was studied by ...

The present study presents proposals for automatic prosodic boundary detection models, based on multiple phonetic-acoustic parameters, in order to enable the construction of a computational tool capable of segmenting ...

Reading typically involves phonological mediation, especially for transparent orthographies with a regular letter to sound correspondence. In this study we ask whether phonological coding is a necessary part of the reading ...

This research aimed to study the pretonic raising in Brazilian Portuguese under the cognitive perspective of the Network Model (BYBEE, 1985, 1995, 2007, 2010), with additional theoretical contributions of the Usage-based ...

This research presents the fundamental frequency (f0) statistics of 100 male speakers of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) who produced samples of semi-spontaneous speech and sentence reading. The analyzed speech samples are part ...

This document is concerned to the final report of a sociolinguistic study whose main objective is to explain how the allophonic activity works in the alternation [đ]~[Ø] in the intervocalic position of Tunja's speech. From ...