extreme of the reproductive period is held widely both by the laity and the medical profession. The influence which age may have on the course of pregnancy and labour has been given considerable prominence recently in American and Continental literature, without attracting serious attention in this country. Text-books, for the most part, give the subject scant notice beyond hinting that a first...

This paper describes a radical corpus-based approach to speech synthesis. No signal manipulation is performed and the synthesis becomes a mere concatenation. The feasibility of this approach is evaluated regarding corpus selection constraints and realization of different prominence patterns. A “traditional” concatenative system serves as a baseline. The results indicate that the size of the cor...

This paper describes a new flexible delexicalization method based on glottal excited parametric speech synthesis scheme. The system utilizes inverse filtered glottal flow and all-pole modelling of the vocal tract. The method provides a possibility to retain and manipulate all relevant prosodic features of any kind of speech. Most importantly, the features include voice quality, which has not be...

This is a summary of studies of word and syllable prominence in Swedish performed during several years. A unique feature is the correlation of observed acoustic data with a continuously scaled parameter of perceived prominence. Besides the established parameters of duration, F0, intensity, and spectral tilt we have also data on true subglottal pressure. Studies of co-variation within the set of...

Earlier studies of perceived strength of phrase boundaries (Fant, Nord and Kruckenberg, 1986; Fant and Kruckenberg, 1989) are briefly reviewed. Results are discussed in terms of speaker variability, acoustic cues and the semantic expectancy of the occurrence of a juncture. More recent studies on stress and accentuation (Fant and Kruckenberg, 1994; Fant, Hertegård and Kruckenberg, 1996) have bee...

solar mini-dimmings can be detect in the extreme ultra-violet coronal eruptions. here, sequences of 171_a images taken by solar dynamic observatory/atmospheric imaging assembaly on 13 june 2010 are used. in this special day, both of coronal mass ejection and prominence were observed. the average velocities and accelerations of 500 mini-dimmings which were detected using on feature based classif...

Abstract The article investigates the hypothesis that prominence phenomena on different levels of linguistic structure are systematically related to each other. More specifically, it is hypothesized relations in morphosyntax reflect, and contribute to, management discourse. This empirically based phenomenon agentivity clines, i.e. observation relevance features such as volition or sentience var...