This study will investigate how non-native speakers of Japanese acquire Japanese accentuation from the viewpoint of the location of the accent nucleus. Hypothetical models for the process of generation and for developmental sequence of interlanguage Japanese accentuation, which is interim accentual system created by learners, will be proposed. The subjects appear to generate their interlanguage...

Research on global pitch trends has shown that statements and different types of questions in Dutch all display distinct patterns, and suggests that these may be influenced by the presence of accentual prominence on wh-words and whether syntactic cues to interrogativity are present [11]. This implies that there would be different pitch trends in a language such as Korean which lacks accentual p...

In this paper, we describe research in fundamental frequency modeling based on a statistical learning technique called additive models. A two-layer additive F0 model consists of a long-term, intonational phrase-level component, and a short-term, accentual phrase-level component. It can be learned from the data using a backfitting algorithm, an optimizer of a penalized least-square criterion def...

This paper examines in detail the morpho-syntax of verbal phrase Paraguayan Guarani, root and complement clauses, argues that while ordering relation between verb its associated functional morphemes is congruent with syntax (cf. Mirror Principle), post-verbal arguments best understood terms phonological linearization. More specifically, it argued there are language-particular prosodic requireme...

Several aspects related to production, as well as natural perception of speech, have gradually been incorporated to automatic speech recognition systems. Nevertheless, the set of speech prosodic characteristics has not been used for the time being in an explicit way in the recognition process itself. In this work, an analysis of the prosody’s three most important parameters: energy, fundamental...

Instead of the robust three-way contrast in the productions of two-syllable words varied in their accentual type, two types of neutralization were observed in native speakers of Tokyo Japanese. Two speakers produced some unaccented words with the accent on the final syllable; the other two speakers always produced words with the accent on the final syllable as unaccented. The accentual patterns...

This paper proposes a novel multi-layer approach to fundamental frequency modeling for concatenative speech synthesis based on a statistical learning technique called additive models. We define an additive F0 contour model consisting of long-term, intonational phrase-level, component and short-term, accentual phrase-level, component, along with a least-squares error criterion that includes a re...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the basic functioning of dynamic computational theories, and to show how this family of theories can be applied to provide a revealing typology of quantityinsensitive accentual systems. To this end, we will discuss quantity-sensitive systems briefly — in part, to reveal the nature of the boundary between the two types of systems. We will illustrate how t...

In this paper, we examine certain aspects of the French Accentual Phrase (AP) produced by monolingual Parisian and L2 speakers of French and discuss the implications language contact may have on our knowledge about the French prosodic system. We study the same text read by four monolingual Parisian speakers and two groups of different L2 speakers: four Central Africans and four Swiss Germans. T...

l'objectif principal de ce travail  est l’étude de la longueur moyenne des phrases dans les textes journalistiques français comme sources, leurs traductions en persan comme cibles et vice-versa. l'hypothèse principale de cette recherche est basée sur l’une des tendances déformantesselonberman comme quoi « toute traduction est tendanciellement plus longue que l'original. » (1985, ...