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Zilbes intonāciju stabilitāte divu paaudžu laikā

Baltistica, 2011
STABILITY OF SYLLABLE INTONATION IN TWO GENERATIONS Material for the history of Latvian intonationsSummaryThe purpose of this study is to investigate: 1) the retention of the Latvian language syllable intonation in the course of an individual's lifetime,
Velta Rūķe-Draviņa
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The perception and production of stress and intonation by children with cochlear implants

, 2010
Users of current cochlear implants have limited access to pitch information and hence to intonation in speech. This seems likely to have an important impact on prosodic perception.
O'Halpin, R.
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A study in english and portuguese intonation [PDF]

, 2013
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis ...
Carioni, Lilia Maria Oliveira
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Intonation in Cantonese. [PDF]

, 2001
This thesis develops a system for describing intonation in Cantonese, a language having six phonological tones employing both pitch and slope. It analyses the utterance intonation contour into major intonation units, intonation units and feet. It defines
Flynn, Choi-Yeung-Chang
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Anchors or relational risks? Educator and psychologist narratives of attachment in child–robot relationships

British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background As AI‐enabled social robots become more common in schools, children may form strong emotional bonds with them despite robots not being caregivers and lacking the capacities for “true” attachment. Given limited understanding of potential risks and safeguards, professional perspectives are needed to inform responsible design and ...
Dimitris Pnevmatikos, Panagiota Christodoulou   +1 more
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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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Exploring How Known‐Answer Questions Are Used in Conversations About Funerals Between People With Learning Disabilities and Support Staff

British Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background People with learning disabilities should be involved in conversations around funerals. Conversation‐starter pictures were developed to support funeral conversations between people with a learning disability and support staff.
Andrea Bruun, Rebecca Anderson‐Kittow
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Essay on intonational phonology and categorization

, 2013
textThis dissertation provides experimental evidence for the validity of an intonational phonology. The widely used Autosegmental-Metrical theory con- tends that the phonological structure of intonation can be expressed with two tonal targets (L/H tones ...
Bacuez, Nicholas
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A Preliminary Study of Written Intonation [PDF]

, 2017
Authors, poets, journalists, academics and even private individuals are often at pains to ensure their readers make the judgement about focus and ‘tone of voice’ that their chosen words are intended to convey.
Ashby, P.
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Evaluating Pronunciation Textbooks

HOW, 2016
The purpose of this article is to present an evaluation of six textbooks on pronunciation, specifically on how intonation is treated in each textbook. Intonation has been chosen because as Kelly (2000) states: "There are languages in which intonation has
Ana Clara Sánchez Solarte, Gabriel Vicente Obando Guerrero   +1 more
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