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, 2008 Tone is a distinctive feature of the lexemes in tone languages. The information-structural category focus is usually marked by syntactic and morphological means in these languages, but sometimes also by intonation strategies.
Hartmann, Katharina
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Influence of Voice Intonation on Understanding Irony by Polish-Speaking Preschool Children
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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Intonation of sentences with an NPI
, 2008 This paper presents the results of a production experiment on the intonation of sentences containing a negative polarity item (NPI) in Tokyo Japanese. The results show that NPI sentences exhibit a focus intonation: the F0-peak of the word to which an NPI
Ishihara, Shinichiro
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Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета. Серия: гуманитарные и общественные наукиIranian students of Russian often experience problems with phonetics and pronunciation that hinder their listening comprehension. Pronunciation mistakes and native-language interference are the main problems Iranian students have to face while studying ...
Roya Azadi, Alireza Valipour
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, 2008 The encoding standards for phonology and intonation are designed to facilitate consistent annotation of the phonological and intonational aspects of information structure, in languages across a range ofprosodic types. The guidelines are designed with the
Féry, Caroline +5 more
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Structuring information through gesture and intonation
, 2005 Face-to-face communication is multimodal. In unscripted spoken discourse we can observe the interaction of several “semiotic layers”, modalities of information such as syntax, discourse structure, gesture, and intonation.
Mendoza-Denton, Norma, Jannedy, Stefanie
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The mechanism of speech processing in congenital amusia: Evidence from Mandarin speakers [PDF]
, 2012 Congenital amusia is a neuro-developmental disorder of pitch perception that causes severe problems with music processing but only subtle difficulties in speech processing.
WF, Thompson +36 more
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An Acoustic Analysis of Persian Children’s Story-telling Based on Rise, Fall and Connection Model (RFC) [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2014 This research article is aimed at investigating the acoustic analysis of intonation in the story-telling of the 5-6-year-old children in Persian and also studying the correlation between gender and intonation.
Ava Imani, Batool Alinezhad
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Real-Time Aural and Visual Feedback for Improving Violin Intonation
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Playing with correct intonation is one of the major challenges for a string player. A player must learn how to physically reproduce a target pitch, but before that, the player must learn what correct intonation is.
Laurel S. Pardue, Andrew McPherson
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Intonation of angry and happy Singapore English acted speech
, 2023 Intonation conveys multiple levels of linguistic meaning and emotional cues. While there have been studies characterising the prosody of emotional speech, it is not known whether these findings, which are primarily observed from Western participants, are
Koh, Rae Jia Xin, Tan, Ying Ying
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