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Ancient Greek pitch accent

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“Pitch” Accent in Alaryngeal Speech

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2002
Highly proficient alaryngeal speakers are known to convey prosody successfully. The present study investigated whether alaryngeal speakers not selected on grounds of proficiency were able to convey pitch accent (a pitch accent is realized on the word that is in focus, cf. Bolinger, 1958).
Nooteboom, S.G., van Rossum, M.A., de Krom, G., Quené, H.   +3 more
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Voice quality dimensions of pitch accents

Interspeech 2005, 2005
Abstract Acoustic and electroglottographic (EGG) measurements wereused to examine voice quality parameters during the produc-tion of the rising and falling pitch movements in German. Thevowels / /and// were studied in a single-speaker speech cor-pus.
Britta Lintfert, Wolfgang Wokurek
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Pitch accent timing and scaling in Chickasaw

Journal of Phonetics, 2008
Abstract Questions in Chickasaw, an endangered Muskogean language of Oklahoma, display a transition from a high pitch accent (H*) to a low boundary tone (L%) within a three-syllable window at their right edge. The location of H* has been reported to be sensitive to the weight of the final three syllables. It falls on the final syllable if it contains
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Word Informativeness and Automatic Pitch Accent Modeling

1999
In intonational phonology and speech synthesis research, it has been suggested that the relative informativeness of a word can be used to predict pitch prominence. The more information conveyed by a word, the more likely it will be accented. But there are others who express doubts about such a correlation.
Shimei Pan, Kathleen R. McKeown
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Pitch accent timing in Chickasaw

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2005
This paper examines the temporal realization of pitch accents in Chickasaw, a Muskogean language of Oklahoma. Questions in Chickasaw have a Lat their right edge preceded by a H* pitch accent that docks on one of the final three syllables of the last word in the Intonational Phrase: on a final CVV, otherwise on a heavy (CVV or CVC) penult, otherwise on ...
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Learning the Japanese pitch accent

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2000
Abstract Teaching and reference materials of Japanese frequently neglect the accentual features of words, and accentual distinctions have been claimed to carry a low functional load in the language. The aim of this article is to present evidence for the communicative importance of the pitch accent, and to provide a comprehensive ...
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Pitch Accent in the Apachean Languages

Language, 1943
The Apachean languages compose the southernmost sub-stock of the great Athapaskan family of American Indian languages. In the Apachean sub-stock are found six mutually unintelligible idioms: Navaho, San Carlos, ChiricahuaMescalero, Jicarilla, Lipan, and Kiowa-Apache.
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A pitch accent contrast in Persian

2011
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Abolhasani Zadeh, V., Gussenhoven, C., Bijankhan, M.   +2 more
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Factors affecting pitch accent placement

2nd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1992), 1992
Kenneth N. Ross, Mari Ostendorf, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel   +2 more
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