Are Indonesians sensitive to contrastive accentuation below the word level?

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The effects of pitch accentuation and beat gestures on information recall in contrastive discourse

Research in audiovisual prosody has shown that typically beat gestures are temporally integrated with prominent positions in speech (e.g., [1, 2]). There is independent evidence that both prosodic prominence (e.g., pitch accents) and gestural prominence associated with words (e.g., beat gestures) facilitate the recall of information (e.g., [3, 4, 5]). However, previous studies did not directly ...

Word accentuation prediction using a neural net classifier

Automaticpredictionof pitch accent assignmentis an important but challenging task in text-to-speech synthesis (TTS). Early work in accent prediction relied on simple word-class distinctions, but recentlymore sophisticatedinductive learningmodels using multiple features have been applied to the problem. For our neural network accent classifier, we developed a corpus that was labeled according to...

Handling results below the level of detection.

In this issue, we publish a paper by Flynn (2010), which adds to the extensive literature on how to handle results which lie below the level of detection (non-detects), including the paper we published by Krishnamoorthy et al., (2009) a few months ago. This led us to ask Helsel (2010) to contribute a commentary on the topic. Helsel concludes with four ‘things that I think we should be able to a...

Spindle trees (Euonymus japonica Thunb.) growing in a polluted environment are less sensitive to gamma irradiation

Background: Spindle trees (Euonymus japonica Thunb.) growing in an industrial complex area containing pollutants is chronically injured thus need to build up their resistance. Antioxidant enzymes and cell membrane stability have been widely used to differentiate stress tolerance. Materials and Methods: Leaves of spindle trees from a clean control area (Kijang) and an industrial area (Onsan) whe...