Early Perception of Intonation in Down Syndrome: Implications for Language Intervention [PDF]
European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and EducationLanguage difficulties have been highlighted as a cornerstone of the developmental profile in Down Syndrome (DS), but very few studies have examined early language abilities in children with DS to determine the initial strengths and weaknesses that might ...
Cátia Severino +2 more
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Preliminary study on the neural mechanisms of four tone recognition in deaf children using fMRI [PDF]
Scientific ReportsVocal intonation, a fundamental element of speech, is pivotal for comprehending and communicating effectively. Nevertheless, children suffering from hearing impairment encounter difficulties in recognizing vocal intonation patterns, primarily stemming ...
Qiang Li +4 more
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Influence of Voice Intonation on Understanding Irony by Polish-Speaking Preschool Children [PDF]
Psychology of Language and Communication, 2016 The main aim of the presented study was to investigate the influence of voice intonation on the comprehension of ironic utterances in 4- to 6-year-old Polish-speaking children. 83 preschool children were tested with the Irony Comprehension Task (Banasik &
Zajączkowska Maria Katarzyna
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Surface and Structure: Transcribing Intonation within and across Languages
Laboratory Phonology, 2016 Intonation is the phonologically structured variation in phonetic features, primarily pitch, to express phrase-level meanings. As in other speech sound domains, analyzing intonation involves mapping continuously variable physical parameters to categories.
Sónia Frota
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QI-TTS: Questioning Intonation Control for Emotional Speech Synthesis [PDF]
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2023 Recent expressive text to speech (TTS) models focus on synthesizing emotional speech, but some fine-grained styles such as intonation are neglected. In this paper, we propose QI-TTS which aims to better transfer and control intonation to further deliver ...
Haobin Tang +4 more
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An Analysis of the Strategies for Developing Students’ Consciousness of Pronunciation and Intonation in College English Teaching Based on the International Communication [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Under the background of international communication, college students’ English listening and speaking ability has been put forward higher requirements.
Gui Ling
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An Acoustic Study on The Effects Intonation Imposes on Sentence-final Particles in Nanjing Dialect [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 To investigate the interaction between tone and intonation on the production of the sentence-final syllables and the effects of a specific type of characters, i.e.
Liu Yuge
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Japanese Research on Linguistics, Literature, and Culture, 2023 This study uses a qualitative approach by presenting data descriptively. This study aims to determine how Japanese native speakers perceive Japanese learners' soudesuka’s intonation pronunciation. Three Japanese native speakers participated in this study
Naura Rohadatul 'Aisy
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Plasticity of Native Intonation in the L1 of English Migrants to Austria
Languages, 2022 This study examines the plasticity of native language intonation in English-Austrian German sequential bilinguals who have migrated to Austria in adulthood by comparing it to that of monolingual English and monolingual Austrian control speakers ...
Ineke Mennen +3 more
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Intonation in Robot Speech: Does it work the same as with people?
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020 Human-robot interaction (HRI) research aims to design natural interactions between humans and robots. Intonation, a social signaling function in human speech investigated thoroughly in linguistics, has not yet been studied in HRI. This study investigates
E. Velner, P. Boersma, M. D. Graaf
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