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Prosodic pitch accents in language comprehension and production: ERP data and acoustic analyses
We used event-related potentials (ERPs) and acoustic analyses to investigate the processing of prosodic pitch accents as a function of their position in a sentence. Accents in sentence-medial positions were characterized by a higher fundamental frequency
Alter K, Heim S
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Using conditional random fields to predict pitch accents in conversational speech
, 2004 The detection of prosodic characteristics is an important aspect of both speech synthesis and speech recognition. Correct placement of pitch accents aids in more natural sounding speech, while automatic detection of accents can contribute to better ...
Michelle L. Gregory
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The effects of age on the strategic use of pitch accents in memory for discourse: a processing-resource account. [PDF]
Psychol Aging, 2012 Fraundorf SH, Watson DG, Benjamin AS.
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Syntactic and semantic contributions of pitch accents during sentence comprehension
Syntactic, semantic, and prosodic cues all establish expectations that guide sentence comprehension. In the prosodic domain, pitch accents can assign contrastive focus and resolve a syntactically ambiguous phrase.
Hartwigsen, G. ; https://orcid.org/ +3 more
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, 2015 This paper uses qualitative and quantitative methods to compare the intonation of formal and colloquial varieties of Egyptian Arabic in a corpus of elicited read speech, to explore the widely held assumption that spoken formal Arabic will have the ...
Dina El Zarka +3 more
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The Role of Accent in Popular Music: An Interdisciplinary Approach
In the thirty years that have passed since Peter Trudgill first published his study of British pop-song pronunciation, and fifteen years since Paul Simpson published his follow-up study of accents in pop and rock singing (1999), there have been several ...
Gibson, Ryan Markus
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Intonation of sentences with an NPI
, 2008 This paper presents the results of a production experiment on the intonation of sentences containing a negative polarity item (NPI) in Tokyo Japanese. The results show that NPI sentences exhibit a focus intonation: the F0-peak of the word to which an NPI
Ishihara, Shinichiro
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Cross-Linguistic Influences on L2 Prosody Perception: Evidence from English Interrogative Focus Perception by Mandarin Listeners. [PDF]
Brain SciLiu X, Chen X, Kuang C, Chen F.
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An investigation of acoustic events related to sentential stress and pitch accents
, 1993 - An algorithm is described to abstract acoustic parameters of a speech waveform to give a scalar measure of the relative stress and pitch movement of each group of phones which can consist of a single prominence.
Paul C. Bagshaw
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