Nadya Pincus
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nadya Pincus plays a role.
Articles
2017 Chapter 3. Acoustic properties of prominence and foot structure in Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIX: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2015, Ouali, Hamid (ed.), pp. 55–88 | Chapter
The acoustic properties of stress and focus prominence are examined in a large, systematically structured corpus of Arabic collected in Amman, Jordan. A modified version of the Functional Load Hypothesis correctly predicts that duration, a contrastive property of Arabic vowels, will not constitute… read more
2015 Acoustic properties of prominence in Hungarian and the Functional Load Hypothesis Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 14: Papers from the 2013 Piliscsaba Conference, Kiss, Katalin É., Balázs Surányi and Éva Dékány (eds.), pp. 267–292 | Article
The acoustic properties associated with prominence (e.g. duration, F0) may also serve for “phonemic” contrasts. The question is thus how speakers correctly interpret these properties. We address this question in terms of an extension of the Functional Load Hypothesis (FLH): given that vowel length… read more