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SCoPE, syllable core and periphery evaluation: Automatic syllabification and foreign accent identification

Speech Communication, 2001
Summary: In this paper we apply a study of the structure of the English language towards an automatic syllabification algorithm and consequently an automatic foreign accent identification system. Any word consists of syllables which can in turn be divided into its constituents.
Kay Berkling
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4 Syllable and accent

2022
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Focus Conditions and the Prominence of Pitch-Accented Syllables

Language and Speech, 1996
The purpose of the present study is to find out how the pitch peak heights on two pitch-accented syllables in one utterance relate to different focus conditions. The focus conditions are neutral focus, double contrastive focus, and single contrastive focus on either the first or the second pitch-accented syllable.
Rump, H.H., Collier, R.P.G.
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Sequential Properties of Accented (A) and Unaccented (U) Syllables

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1970
No abstract.
Katwijk, van, A.F.V., Hart, 't, J.
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Fundamental frequency and perceived prominence of accented syllables. II. Nonfinal accents

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1994
An experiment is described addressing the question of whether two accented syllables in a phrase should have equal pitch maxima in order to be perceived as equally prominent, or whether the second accented syllable should have lower pitch. The latter alternative was found to apply to the last accented syllable in an utterance by Terken [‘‘Fundamental ...
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Syllables, moras and accents in Beja

Journal of Linguistics, 1973
In his study of Japanese phonology, McCawley introduces an interesting typological classification of languages according to the kinds of rules needed for describing the distribution of prosodic features like stress and pitch (1968: 58–61). Whereas Trubetzkoy had made a simple distinction between ‘syllablecounting’ languages and ‘mora-counting ...
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Syllable and Accent in Japanese

Annual Report of the Institute of Phonetics University of Copenhagen, 1971
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Peak alignment in accented Tolowa syllables

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2006
Tolowa (Athabaskan, Pacific Coast Group) has only three remaining fluent speakers near Crescent City, CA. Tolowa has prominent pitch contours that have been described both as an interaction of stress and vowel length and as lexically specified pitch accent. The present study examined the phonetic realization of these pitch contours.
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Fundamental frequency and perceived prominence of accented syllables

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1991
Perceived prominence differences between accented words have been accounted for in terms of fundamental frequency (F0) variations. In one theory prominence is related to the relative magnitude of F0 changes, and in another theory prominence is related to relative frequencies of F0 maxima.
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Modeling Syllable-Based Pronunciation Variation for Accented Mandarin Speech Recognition

2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2010
Pronunciation variation is a natural and inevitable phenomenon in an accented Mandarin speech recognition application. In this paper, we integrate knowledge-based and data-driven approaches together for syllable-based pronunciation variation modeling to improve the performance of Mandarin speech recognition system for speakers with Southern accent ...
Shilei Zhang, Qin Shi, Yong Qin
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