In the present study, the F0 contours of continuing and terminating prosodic phrases of 4 Swiss German dialects are analyzed by means of the command-response model. In every model parameter, the two prosodic phrase types show significant differences: continuing prosodic phrases indicate higher phrase command magnitude and shorter durations. Locally, they demonstrate more distinct accent command...

We present a novel approach to intonation modelling for speech synthesis based on a two-layer technique. The generator component of a concept-to-speech system produces an abstract phonological representation of intonation based on GToBI interpreting the linguistic and discourse information available. This abstract representation must be translated into concrete acoustic parameters. The paper de...

Does prosody help word recognition? In this paper, we propose a novel probabilistic framework in which word and phoneme are dependent on prosody in a way that improves word recognition. We describe the idea of prosody dependent speech recognition by building a prosody dependent speech recognizer that conditions word and phoneme models on two important prosodic variables: intonational phrase bou...

Hyperhomocysteinemia (HH) is an independent risk factor for atherosclerosis, including peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD). Because angiogenesis and collateral vessel formation are important self-salvage mechanisms for ischemic PAOD, we examined whether HH modulates angiogenesis in vivo in a rat model of hindlimb ischemia. Rats were divided into 3 groups: the control group was given ta...

This paper explicitly provides the experimental analyses for the fundamental arguments of Kyungsang (KS) tone. It provides the locations of the main accent in KS words and its basic tonal units. Furthermore through the results it ultimately contributes to the typological categorization of KS Korean tone. That is, the results of the current experimental analysis of the KS words provide us the ev...

On the one hand, these different researchers differ from each other in identifying exactly what the prosodic correlate of topic/theme is. Büring (2002: 27) and Kadmon (2001: 380), following Pierrehumbert (1980), suggest that ‘contrastive topics’ are realized by an entire tune, either H* LH% or L+H*LH%. Steedman (2000) associates his ‘theme’ with the pitch accent L+H*. Gundel & Fretheim (in pres...

A core issue in speech perception and word recognition research is the nature of information perceivers use to identify spoken utterances across indexical variations in their phonetic details, such as talker and accent differences. Separately, a crucial question in audio-visual research is the nature of information perceivers use to recognize phonetic congruency between the audio and visual (ta...

In this paper our goal is to investigate the phonetic cues of duration and pitch (F0) for contrastive focus (henceforth CF) in Standard Colloquial Assamese (henceforth SCA), spoken in the eastern part of Assam. SCA declarative utterances in non-final Phonological phrases (henceforth P-phrase) display rising pitch contours (L*HP) and the final constituent undergoes a smooth fall [1]. When a cons...

This paper studies the relationship between prosodic phrasing and prominence by addressing questions of whether every phrase must have a head (a most prominent sub-constituent), if so, how is marked. I study these examining intermediate (iP) in English. If iP head, this be marked pitch accent, then an environment without any there should no head/non-head distinction. And context either. conduct...

Vietnamese accentless texts exist on parallel with official vietnamese documents and play an important role in instant message, mobile SMS and online searching. Understanding correctly these texts is not simple because of the lexical ambiguity caused by the diversity in adding diacritics to a given accentless sequence. There have been some methods for solving the vietnamese accentless texts pro...