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Underspecification in intonation revisited: a reply to Xu, Lee, Prom-on and Liu*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2016

Amalia Arvaniti  and
D. Robert Ladd
Amalia Arvaniti*
Affiliation:
University of Kent
D. Robert Ladd*
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
*
*E-mail: a.arvaniti@kent.ac.uk, bob.ladd@ed.ac.uk.
*E-mail: a.arvaniti@kent.ac.uk, bob.ladd@ed.ac.uk.
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We are naturally pleased that Xu et al. (2015) have taken the trouble to address our critique of the PENTA model, and it is useful to have a concise restatement of PENTA's aims and assumptions. However, we believe that their reply does not address the key point of our earlier paper (Arvaniti & Ladd 2009), which was that syllable-by-syllable specification of F0 does not makes theoretical sense in a language where F0 functions at the phrase or utterance level, and does not permit adequate quantitative modelling of complex intonation contours in short utterances.

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Phonology , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , December 2015 , pp. 537 - 541
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