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Pre-Low Raising in Japanese Pitch Accent [PDF]
Phonetica, 2017 AbstractJapanese has been observed to have 2 versions of the H tone, the higher of which is associated with an accented mora. However, the distinction of these 2 versions only surfaces in context but not in isolation, leading to a long-standing debate over whether there is 1 H tone or 2.
Albert Lee +2 more
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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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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 +2 more
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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 +3 more
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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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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 +1 more
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LanguagesAlthough prosodic differences in autistic individuals have been widely documented, little is known about their ability to perceive and interpret specific prosodic features, such as contrastive pitch accent—a prosodic signal that places emphasis and helps
Pumpki Lei Su +3 more
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Melodic Accent as an Emergent Property of Tonal Motion
Empirical Musicology Review, 2011 In a previous continuation tapping study (Ammirante, Thompson, & Russo, in press), each tap triggered a discrete tone in a sequence randomly varying in pitch height and contour.
Paolo Ammirante, William Forde Thompson
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Prominence and Expectation in Speech and Music Through the Lens of Pitch Processing
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Speech and music reflect extraordinary aspects of human cognitive abilities. Pitch, as an important parameter in the auditory domain, has been the focus of previous research on the relations between speech and music. The present study continues this line
Xiaoluan Liu, Xiaoluan Liu
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Elements of Brazilian Portuguese intonation
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2009 Experimental results on Brazilian Portuguese (BP) intonation are reported, concentrating on speakers from the Campinas area. A combined production and perception study shows that four nuclear contours are produced and distinguished: statements (H+L* L%),
Filomena Sandalo +2 more
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