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Intonation development from five to thirteen [PDF]

, 2004
Research undertaken to date suggests that important developments in the understanding and use of intonation may take place after the age of 5;0. The present study aims to provide a more comprehensive account of these developments.
Goulandris, N., Peppé, S., Wells, B.
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Assessing intonation skills in a tertiary music training programme [PDF]

, 1996
[Abstract]: Buttsworth, Fogarty, and Rorke (1993) reported the construction of a battery of tonal tests designed to assess intonation abilities. A subset of the tests in the battery predicted 36 per cent of final scores in an aural training subject in a ...
Buttsworth, Louise M., Fogarty, Gerard J., Gearing, Phillip J.   +2 more
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Lithuanian language intonation: history of research, in the context of language ‘intonology’

Językoznawstwo, 2021
The linguists Jablonskis (1911) and Durys (1927) were the first to study Lithuanian language intonation. Research on intonation in other European languages (English, Russian) began earlier, in the 16th and 17th centuries (English: Hart (1551) and Butler
Gintautas Kundrotas
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Evidential Strength of Intonational Cues and Rational Adaptation to (Un-)Reliable Intonation

Cognitive Sciences, 2018
Intonation plays an integral role in comprehending spoken language. Listeners can rapidly integrate intonational information to predictively map a given pitch accent onto the speaker's likely referential intentions.
Timo B. Roettger, M. Franke
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Non-Native Perception and Interpretation of English Intonation

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2005
This paper investigated the perception and interpretation of a sub-class of sentence intonation by some Nigerian users of English. In a test administered to one hundred and twenty third-year university students of English, they obtained 85.7% correct ...
Raphael O. Atoye
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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.
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Data-driven Extraction of Intonation Contour Classes [PDF]

, 2007
In this paper we introduce the first steps towards a new datadriven method for extraction of intonation events that does not require any prerequisite prosodic labelling.
Reichel, Uwe D.
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Comparative analysis of the evolution of scientific and pedagogical know-ledge in the field of education of the culture of piano performance and intonation

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2020
We examine and study the category “Culture of piano performance and intonation”, an important component of the education of professional competence and skill of the future teacher-musician.
A. Y. Maryatch
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Intonation, yes and no

, 2018
English polar particles yes and no are interchangeable in response to negative sentences, that is, either one can be used to convey both positive and negative responses.
Daniel Goodhue, M. Wagner
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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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