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Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Previous research has shown that eyebrow movement during speech exhibits a systematic relationship with intonation: brow raises tend to be aligned with pitch accents, typically preceding them.
Volker Gast
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Online guided pronunciation practice helps adult EFL learners improve L2 prosody
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2023 This study tests the efficacy of a pronunciation course in developing advanced EFL learners’ expressive reading during a semester of online instruction.
Šárka Šimáčková +1 more
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Perceiving pitch accent in the absence of F0
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2012 <p>The present sudy investigates secondary cues to pitch accent by using speech stimuli whose F0 had been articially removed from words produced normally and replaced by white noise.</p>
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Accent Conversion via Formant-based Spectral Mapping and Pitch Contour Modification [PDF]
, 2011 A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Master of PhilosophyAccent conversion intends to change the accent of a speaker to a desired accent and preserve the speaker’s voice identity ...
Zheng, Dang Cong, Dang Cong Zheng
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The dynamics of intonation: Categorical and continuous variation in an attractor-based model.
PLoS ONE, 2019 The framework of dynamical systems offers powerful tools to understand the relation between stability and variability in human cognition in general and in speech in particular.
Simon Roessig +2 more
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A Japanese pitch accent practice program and L1 influence on pitch accent acquisition
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2018 Recent research has demonstrated that learners of Japanese struggle producing correct Japanese pitch accent. The goal of the present study was to investigate the effect learners’ first language (L1) may have on accent acquisition following the introduction and use of a digital Japanese Pitch Accent Learning and Practice (PALP) program in two Japanese ...
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Non-Final Focus Accents in The Speech of Advanced Italian Learners of German
Linguistik Online, 2015 This study investigates the prosodic marking of focus in non-native German. Ten proficient learners of German with Italian L1 were recorded reading aloud 40 sentences containing mostly non-final focused constituents embedded in an adequate question ...
Peter Paschke, Barbara Vogt
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The phonology of pitch accents in Chickasaw [PDF]
Phonology, 2003 This paper examines the phonology of pitch accents in Chickasaw, a Muskogean language of Oklahoma. Chickasaw is typologically unusual in displaying a predominantly top-down prominence system, in which phonological and morphological factors that are irrelevant for word-level stress play a crucial role in positioning the pitch accent in an Intonational ...
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PLoS ONE, 2020 How well L2 English is understood and how L2 English speakers perceive one another within varying communication contexts has been studied relatively rarely, even though most speakers of English in the world are L2 speakers.
Warda Nejjari +3 more
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Using Neural Networks To Locate Pitch Accents [PDF]
, 1995 This paper descirbes a technique for finding intonatioanl events, (pitch accents and boundary tones) from waveforms. The technique works in a bottom-up manner by using a recurrent neural network to perform a classification of each frame in the input ...
Paul Taylor, Taylor, Paul A
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