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How prior experience with pitch accents shapes the perception of word and sentence stress
, 2022 Listeners perceive high or rising pitch as stressed – at the word and sentence level (high-pitch bias). Since stressed syllables can also be low-pitched, this bias may lead to misinterpretations of word and sentence stress and thus slow down speech ...
Kutscheid, Sophie +3 more
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Probing the Underlying Principles of Perceived Immanent Accents Using a Modeling Approach
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 This article deals with the question of how the perception of the “immanent accents” can be predicted and modeled. By immanent accent we mean any musical event in the score that is related to important points in the musical structure (e.g., tactus ...
Anders Friberg +4 more
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Modelling prominence and emphasis improves unit-selection synthesis
, 2007 We describe the results of large scale perception experiments showing improvements in synthesising two distinct kinds of prominence: standard pitch-accent and strong emphatic accents.
Clark, Robert +23 more
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The Pitch Range of Italians and Americans. A Comparative Study [PDF]
, 2013 Linguistic experiments have investigated the nature of F0 span and level in cross-linguistic comparisons. However, only few studies have focused on the elaboration of a general-agreed methodology that may provide a unifying approach to the analysis of ...
Urbani, Martina
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Phonetic and phonological aspects of prosodic focus marking in Canadian English
Laboratory PhonologyPrevious studies reported mixed findings regarding the details of the acoustic correlates of focus, as well as the relationship between information structure and pitch accent types in English. Moreover, previous studies showed that different varieties of
Anja Arnhold, Jiseung Kim
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On Automatic Prominence Detection for German
, 2007 Tamburini F, Wagner P. On Automatic Prominence Detection for German. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2007. 2007: 1809-1812.Perceptual prominence is an important indicator of a word's and syllable's lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic status in a ...
Wagner, Petra ; https://orcid.org/ +4 more
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Single prosodic phrase sentences
, 2008 A series of production and perception experiments investigating the prosody and well-formedness of special sentences, called Wide Focus Partial Fronting (WFPF), which consist of only one prosodic phrase and a unique initial accented argument, are ...
Féry, Caroline, Drenhaus, Heiner
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The integration of stimulus dimensions in the perception of music
, 2011 A central aim of cognitive psychology is to explain how we integrate stimulus dimensions into a unified percept, but how the dimensions of pitch and time combine in the perception of music remains a largely unresolved issue. The goal of this study was to
Prince, J.B.
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Eyebrow raising in dialogue: discourse structure, utterance function, and pitch accents [PDF]
, 2006 Some studies have suggested a relationship between eyebrow raising and different aspects of the verbal message, but our knowledge about this link is still very limited.
Flecha-García, María Luisa
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An analysis of pitch and duration in material used to test L2 processing of words
, 2006 The material reported on in this paper is part of a set of experiments in which the role of Information Structure on L2 processing of words is tested. Pitch and duration of 4 sets of experimental material in German and English are measured and analyzed ...
Zimmer-Stahl, Anne +2 more
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