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Wavelets for intonation modeling in HMM speech synthesis [PDF]
, 2013 The pitch contour in speech contains information about different linguistic units at several distinct temporal scales. At the finest level, the microprosodic cues are purely segmental in nature, whereas in the coarser time scales, lexical tones, word ...
Suni, Antti Santeri +5 more
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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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Effect of F0 contour on perception of Mandarin Chinese speech against masking.
PLoS ONE, 2019 Intonation has many perceptually significant functions in language that contribute to speech recognition. This study aims to investigate whether intonation cues affect the unmasking of Mandarin Chinese speech in the presence of interfering sounds ...
Meihong Wu
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Assessing intonation skills in a tertiary music training programme [PDF]
, 1996 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 tertiary ...
Gearing, Phillip J. +2 more
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Prosody by phase : evidence from focus intonation–Wh-scope correspondence in Japanese [PDF]
, 2004 Japanese wh-questions always exhibit focus intonation (FI). Furthermore, the domain of FI exhibits a correspondence to the wh-scope. I propose that this phonology-semantics correspondence is a result of the cyclic computation of FI, which is explained ...
Ishihara, Shinichiro
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Tone and Intonation in Chichewa and Tumbuka
, 2016 This study compares the tone and intonation systems of two closely related Bantu languages spoken in Malawi, Chichewa and Tumbuka. The lexical tone systems of the two languages are quite different from each other.
Downing, Laura J.,, Laura J. Downing
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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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Planning sentences and sentence intonation in Estonian
Laboratory PhonologyThe notion of advance planning of sentence intonation is grounded in the positive correlation between the sentence-initial intonation peaks and sentence duration.
Nele Ots
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Temporal variability of fundamental frequency contours
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2017 Intonation is one of the means of performing a speech style. Thus, observing pitch variation in an utterance may be a clue to identifying speech style.
Robin Hruška, Tomáš Bořil
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, 2015 Most of the literature on intonation derives from pioneering studies on English intonation. These authors and their followers have identified the exponents of intonation as F0, rhythm (including length and pauses) and intensity.
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