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Analysis and Modelling of Temporal Characteristics of Speech for Estonian Text-to-Speech Synthesis [PDF]
A text-to-speech system must be capable of generating sounds and pauses with such durations that do not noticeably differ from natural speech. Currently, the prosodic modelling of Estonian text-to-speech synthesis is largely based on generalized ...
Meelis Mihkla, Jüri Kuusik
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A Structural Analysis of the Common and Innovative Meters in Persian Poetry [PDF]
This article examines the structure of commonly used and innovative meters in Persian poetry, both classical and contemporary. Moreover, it introduces a new classification for meters of all types.
Mohammadamir Jalali
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The Temporal Structure of Livonian Tri-, Tetra- and Pentasyllabic Words; pp. 177-195 [PDF]
The article focuses on Livonian trisyllabic, tetrasyllabic and pentasyllabic words, comparing the temporal structures of non-initial syllables and secondary-stressed feet.
Tuuli Tuisk
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Quantity in Livonian: Preliminary Results; 29-44 [PDF]
The paper describes work done up to now with Livonian, the southernmost Finnic language. The study proceeds within the framework of the Finno-Ugric Prosody Project: a set of test sentences is recorded by a number of native speakers, an acoustic-phonetic ...
Ilse Lehiste +3 more
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Faithfulness vs truncation: A prosodic account of children’s disyllabic to pentasyllabic words
In the present study faithfulness and truncation in language acquisition are investigated. The data come from pictures naming and spontaneous speech produced by four Greek-speaking children aged 1;6.26 to 2;10.9 years old.
Anastasios Poulidakis
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This study investigates whether Mandarin listeners integrate a prosody-covarying phonological variable, the Chinese Tone 3 sandhi (T3S), into auditory sentence disambiguation.
Aini Li, Wei Lai
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Stress production by Cebuano learners of Arabic: A metrical analysis
Stress is one of the most neglected components of the Arabic language in classrooms (Lin, 2018; Ryding, 2013).This study is devoted to analyzing stress production in Arabic as produced by Cebuano learners in order to highlight the challenges so that ...
Anas Huneety +3 more
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Relativized Prosodic Domains: A Late-Insertion Account of German Plurals
In late-insertion, realizational models of morphology such as Distributed Morphology (DM), the insertion of Vocabulary Items (VIs) is conditioned by cyclic operations in the syntax.
Katharina S. Schuhmann +1 more
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Prosodic Zhafat based in an exact discipline [PDF]
Zahf means farness from the orgion and delay from the purpose and goal. In term of prosody, every change that is occurred in afaeel pricipals is called zahaf.
Ali Heydari
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