“reading of the holy quran” is among quranic sciences which is rooted in the oldest writings of quranic scholars, and is a science based on narration. comprehensive consideration of multiple classifications of kinds of quranic readings has always been a matter of debate among scholars. multiplicity as well as difference of theories in this connection makes attainment of an appropriate and compr...

In some tone languages, contour tones (pitch changes within a syllable) may be used contrastively. The phonological distribution of contour tones has been of much theoretical interest, as it sheds light on both the representation of tone (Woo 1969; Leben 1973; Goldsmith 1976; Bao 1990; Duanmu 1990, 1994a; Yip 1989, 1995) and the relation between phonetics and phonology (Duanmu 1994b; Gordon 199...

We investigate the use in Mandarin tone recognition of over two hundred possible local acoustic features based on pitch, overall intensity, and band-passed intensity in the rhyme of a syllable. Features involving pitch height are not as useful as one might expect, showing the need for phrase-level pitch height correction. The intensity contour is useful, particularly when rhyme-initial intensit...