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The purpose of this contribution is to investigate the similarities in form and function of prosody among diverse languages. All speakers, regardless of their specific language, are equipped with the same production and perception apparatus, and consequently have the same capabilities and must face the same physiological constraints. Such similarities should be reflected in the acoustic production of any speaker. The first specific aim of this contribution is to review a number of striking acoustic similarities in the suprasegmental aspects of neutral sentences in different languages, together with possible physiological explanations for them.
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Vaissière, J. (1983). Language-Independent Prosodic Features. In: Cutler, A., Ladd, D.R. (eds) Prosody: Models and Measurements. Springer Series in Language and Communication, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69103-4_5
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