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Linguistica, 2017 In this paper we call into question the value of ‘rules’ concerning intonation to the learner of English. Are there predictive rules of sufficient generality and power to make them worth learning explicitly, or would learners’ time be better spent on ...
Michael George Ashby, Patricia Ashby
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, 2021 German – like English and Italian – is classified as an intonation language. Intonation languages differ from tone languages in that the speech melody operates at the postlexical level (i.e.
Moroni, Manuela Caterina
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Intonation in neurogenic foreign accent syndrome [PDF]
, 2012 Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a motor speech disorder in which changes to segmental as well as suprasegmental aspects lead to the perception of a foreign accent in speech. This paper focuses on one suprasegmental aspect, namely that of intonation.
Miller, Nick +7 more
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Characterizing intonation deficit in motor speech disorders : an autosegmental-metrical analysis of spontaneous speech in hypokinetic dysarthria, ataxic dysarthria and foreign accent syndrome [PDF]
, 2012 The autosegmental-metrical (AM) framework represents an established methodology for intonational analysis in unimpaired speaker populations but has found little application in describing intonation in motor speech disorders (MSDs).
Lowit, Anja, Kuschmann, Anja
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Automatisation of intonation modelling and its linguistic anchoring [PDF]
, 2012 This paper presents a fully machine-driven approach for intonation description and its linguistic interpretation. For this purpose,a new intonation model for bottom-up F0 contour analysis and synthesis is introduced, the CoPaSul model which is designed ...
Reichel, Uwe D., Uwe D. Reichel
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Intonation processing in congenital amusia: discrimination, identification and imitation [PDF]
, 2010 This study investigated whether congenital amusia, a neuro-developmental disorder of musical perception, also has implications for speech intonation processing.
Stewart, Lauren +11 more
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Journal of Semantics, 2022 AbstractThis paper presents an analysis of inquisitive rising declaratives (Gunlogson 2001, Jeong 2018) within the Table model (Farkas & Bruce 2010). On this account, intonational tunes are modifiers of context update functions: rising intonation removes the speaker commitment component of a context update.
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Greek wh-Questions and the Phonology of Intonation [PDF]
, 2009 The intonation of Greek wh-questions consists of a rise-fall followed by a low plateau and a final rise. Using acoustic data, we show (i) that the exact contour shape depends on the length of the question, and (ii) that the position of the first peak and
Ladd, D. Robert +6 more
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Figuring Out the Intended Meaning of Intonation in Some English Conversational Utterances
الأستاذ, 2018 The study aims at figuring out the intended meaning of intonation in some English conversational utterances together with identifying pitch variations that are determined by various syntactic constructions that impart the same illocutionary force of ...
Mahmood Atiya Farhan +1 more
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The pragmatic function of intonation in English and Slovene
Acta Neophilologica, 2006 The article examines the pragmatic role of intonation whose prime function is to enable the hearer to make inferences from the utterance's context in order to enrich the interpretation. Intonation does not alter the sense of lexical items.
Smiljana Komar
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