Kathryn Franich
Biographic Data
| ID | 772489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Franich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Franich |
| SIGNATURE | FRANICH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7277-2339 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The timing of speech and gesture in two Niger-Congo languages: Implications for word-level prominence
Co-speech gestures are timed to occur with prosodically prominent syllables in several languages. In prior work in Indo-European languages, gestures are found to be attracted to stressed syllables, with gesture apexes preferentially aligning with syllables bearing higher and more dynamic pitch accents. Little research has examined the temporal alignment of co-speech gestures in African tonal languages, where metrical prominence is often hard to i…
Feeling the Beat in an African Tone Language: Rhythmic Mapping Between Language and Music
Text-setting patterns in music have served as a key data source in the development of theories of prosody and rhythm in stress-based languages, but have been explored less from a rhythmic perspective in the realm of tone languages. African tone languages have been especially under-studied in terms of rhythmic patterns in text-setting, likely in large part due to the ill-understood status of metrical structure and prosodic prominence asymmetries i…
Metrical prominence asymmetries in Medumba, a Grassfields Bantu language: Supplementary material
ANALYZED BY SUBJECT, SET, METRONOME SPEED, AND CONDITION.Tables S1-S2 provide details of how many metronome speeds were attainable for each subject across Sets A-C in Experiments 1 and 2. Table S3 indicates the number of data points analyzed for each prosodic form condition across the two experiments.s1 s2 s3 s4 s5 s6 s7 s8 s9
Uncovering Tonal and Temporal Correlates of Phrasal Prominence in Medʉmba
Characterizing prosodic prominence relations in African tone languages is notoriously difficult, as typical acoustic cues to prominence (changes in F0, increases in intensity, etc.) can be difficult to distinguish from those which mark tonal contrasts. The task of establishing prominence is further complicated by the fact that tone, an important cue to syllable prominence and prosodic boundaries cross-linguistically, plays many roles in African l…
Metrical prominence asymmetries in Medumba, a Grassfields Bantu language
There has been considerable debate as to whether word-level metrical prominence asymmetries are a universal feature of languages. African tone languages have been at the heart of this debate, as many of these languages do not show clear phonetic evidence of lexical stress. This article explores metrical prominence asymmetries in Medʉmba, a Grassfields Bantu language, by examining such asymmetries through the lens of speech timing. Forged within a…
Laura J. Downing and Al Mtenje (2018). The phonology of Chichewa. (The Phonology of the World's Languages.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xvi+294
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Evidence for Metrical Prominence Asymmetries in Medʉmba
Headedness has played a crucial role in the characterization of metrical structure since the earliest proposals for its existence, with definitions of headedness typically relying on the notion of relative syllable prominence: heads are said to bear relatively greater prominence than nonheads. But what counts as prominent for the sake of headedness varies widely across languages, particularly where evidence for stress is weak or absent. The prese…
Tonal and morphophonological effects on the location of perceptual centers (p-centers): Evidence from a Bantu language
Contour Tones and Prosodic Structure in Medumba
Uncovering Tonal and Temporal Correlates of Phrasal Prominence in Medʉmba
Characterizing prosodic prominence relations in African tone languages is notoriously difficult, as typical acoustic cues to prominence (changes in F0, increases in intensity, etc.) can be difficult to distinguish from those which mark tonal contrasts. The task of establishing prominence is further complicated by the fact that tone, an important cue to syllable prominence and prosodic boundaries cross-linguistically, plays many roles in African l…
Metrical prominence asymmetries in Medumba, a Grassfields Bantu language
There has been considerable debate as to whether word-level metrical prominence asymmetries are a universal feature of languages. African tone languages have been at the heart of this debate, as many of these languages do not show clear phonetic evidence of lexical stress. This article explores metrical prominence asymmetries in Medʉmba, a Grassfields Bantu language, by examining such asymmetries through the lens of speech timing. Forged within a…
Tonal and morphophonological effects on the location of perceptual centers (p-centers): Evidence from a Bantu language
Contour Tones and Prosodic Structure in Medumba
Laura J. Downing and Al Mtenje (2018). The phonology of Chichewa. (The Phonology of the World's Languages.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xvi+294
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Evidence for Metrical Prominence Asymmetries in Medʉmba
Headedness has played a crucial role in the characterization of metrical structure since the earliest proposals for its existence, with definitions of headedness typically relying on the notion of relative syllable prominence: heads are said to bear relatively greater prominence than nonheads. But what counts as prominent for the sake of headedness varies widely across languages, particularly where evidence for stress is weak or absent. The prese…
Tonal and morphophonological effects on the location of perceptual centers (p-centers): Evidence from a Bantu language
Feeling the Beat in an African Tone Language: Rhythmic Mapping Between Language and Music
Text-setting patterns in music have served as a key data source in the development of theories of prosody and rhythm in stress-based languages, but have been explored less from a rhythmic perspective in the realm of tone languages. African tone languages have been especially under-studied in terms of rhythmic patterns in text-setting, likely in large part due to the ill-understood status of metrical structure and prosodic prominence asymmetries i…
Metrical prominence asymmetries in Medumba, a Grassfields Bantu language: Supplementary material
ANALYZED BY SUBJECT, SET, METRONOME SPEED, AND CONDITION.Tables S1-S2 provide details of how many metronome speeds were attainable for each subject across Sets A-C in Experiments 1 and 2. Table S3 indicates the number of data points analyzed for each prosodic form condition across the two experiments.s1 s2 s3 s4 s5 s6 s7 s8 s9
Uncovering Tonal and Temporal Correlates of Phrasal Prominence in Medʉmba
Characterizing prosodic prominence relations in African tone languages is notoriously difficult, as typical acoustic cues to prominence (changes in F0, increases in intensity, etc.) can be difficult to distinguish from those which mark tonal contrasts. The task of establishing prominence is further complicated by the fact that tone, an important cue to syllable prominence and prosodic boundaries cross-linguistically, plays many roles in African l…
Metrical prominence asymmetries in Medumba, a Grassfields Bantu language
There has been considerable debate as to whether word-level metrical prominence asymmetries are a universal feature of languages. African tone languages have been at the heart of this debate, as many of these languages do not show clear phonetic evidence of lexical stress. This article explores metrical prominence asymmetries in Medʉmba, a Grassfields Bantu language, by examining such asymmetries through the lens of speech timing. Forged within a…
The timing of speech and gesture in two Niger-Congo languages: Implications for word-level prominence
Co-speech gestures are timed to occur with prosodically prominent syllables in several languages. In prior work in Indo-European languages, gestures are found to be attracted to stressed syllables, with gesture apexes preferentially aligning with syllables bearing higher and more dynamic pitch accents. Little research has examined the temporal alignment of co-speech gestures in African tonal languages, where metrical prominence is often hard to i…
Linguistics (8 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Bantu languages (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · History (3 works) · Speech recognition (3 works)