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The importance of pitch in conveying meaning in English [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences, 2023
Pitch, as a basic property of sounds and an important suprasegmental feature of speech, exerts its effect on many linguistic aspects at different levels.
Yang Yifan
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Alternation preferences affect focus marking in German and English differently

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
This study investigates the interplay between alternation preferences and corrective focus marking in the production of German and English speakers. Both languages prefer an alternation of strong and weak, and both use pitch accenting to indicate focus ...
Nadja Schauffler
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Some Issues In Japanese Accent

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1992
Previous treatments of Japanese accent have regarded accent as a diacritic feature on the basis of which pitch patterns are predicted by general rules.
Miner, Kenneth L.
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Perception in Black and White: Effects of Intonational Variables and Filtering Conditions on Sociolinguistic Judgments With Implications for ASR

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2021
This study tests the effects of intonational contours and filtering conditions on listener judgments of ethnicity to arrive at a more comprehensive understanding on how prosody influences these judgments, with implications for austomatic speech ...
Nicole R. Holliday
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The more the better? Effects of L1 tonal density and typology on the perception of non-native tones.

PLoS ONE, 2023
This study investigates the effects of L1 tonal density and typology on naïve listeners' perception of L2 Cantonese tones and pitch-equivalent pure tones.
Min Zhu, Fei Chen, Xiaoxiang Chen, Yuxiao Yang   +3 more
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Acoustic and Perceptual Evidence of Complete Neutralization of Word-Final Tonal Specification in Japanese

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2002
This study investigated the extent to which the Japanese lexical pitch-accent distinction is neutralized in word-final position. Native speakers of Tokyo Japanese produced minimal word pairs differing in final accent status.
Maniwa, Kazumi
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Phonetics and phonology of the F0 valley in Persian intonation [PDF]

نشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی, 2023
This research aims to improve speech synthesis in Persian and investigate the pitch contour fall between two H* peaks carried out in the framework of the Autosegmental Metrical (AM) theory of intonational phonology.
Maedeh Ejei, Vahid Sadeghi, Mahmood Bejankhan   +2 more
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L’accentuation québécoise : une approche tonale [PDF]

, 1990
Cet article basé sur une analyse de trois locuteurs cherche à apporter des éléments d’éclaircissement sur les notions d’accent tonal et d’accent dynamique et sur les modalités de réalisation des accents tonals complexes dans le français québécois ...
Cedergren, Henrietta J., Perreault, Hélène, Poiré, François, Rousseau, Pascale   +3 more
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Perception of standard Croatian pitch accents by speakers from pitch accent and from stress accent regiolects [PDF]

, 2023
Previous acoustic studies have found that Croatian speakers use either standard four pitch-accent system (PA) or a stress accent (SA). The focus of the present study is on perception of four pitch accents: we tested how fast and how accurately the Croatian listeners from pitch and from stress system can perceive the words with correct and incorrect ...
Vlašić Duić, Jelena, Pletikos Olof, Elenmari   +1 more
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The role of beat gesture and pitch accent in semantic processing : An ERP study [PDF]

, 2013
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Chu, Mingyuan, Wang, Lin
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