Our perceptions are shaped by both extrinsic stimuli and intrinsic interpretation. The perceptual experience of a simple rhythm, for example, depends upon its metrical interpretation (where one hears the beat). Such interpretation can be altered at will, providing a model to study the interaction of endogenous and exogenous influences in the cognitive organization of perception. Using magnetoen...

Kammu, a Mon-Khmer language spoken in Northern Laos, is a language that has developed lexical tones rather recently, from the point of view of language history. One of the main dialects of this language is a tone language with high or low tone on each syllable, while the other main dialect lacks lexical tones. The dialects differ only marginally in other respects. This type of language material...

Southern Bobo Madaré (Bobo) is a Mande language spoken in southwestern Burkina Faso. This paper presents the first step towards a systematic prosodic analysis of this language. It outlines the phonetic correlates of intonational phrase boundaries in Bobo, focusing on fundamental frequency, final lengthening, and non-modal vowel phonation. It is argued that Bobo has both L and H boundary tones, ...

In this paper the basic features of the intonational structure of Bermeo Basque (BB) are analyzed. In BB there exists a lexical distinction between accented and unaccented words. Accented words are always stressed, and unaccented words (not containing any accented morphemes) only receive stress on their final syllable when they are immediately preceding the verb; otherwise they surface stressle...

This paper explores the linguistic properties of a discourse variant temporal adverb ʔelħi:n, used in Haili Dialect Najdi Arabic (HA). Maintaining characteristic co-occurring clause-initially, and examining lexical/discoursal articulated structures, ʔelħi:n has developed conventionalized use, turning its morphology into particle that expresses degree speaker’s attitude. undergone process gramma...

In tonal languages, tones are associated with both and phonological lexical domains. Accurate tone articulation is required in order to convey the correct meaning. Learning at word phrase levels often challenging for L2 learners non-tonal language background, because of possible subtle difference between close tones. this paper, we discuss an adoption StudyIntonation CAPT tools case Vietnamese ...

We propose a tone recognition approach that employs linearchain Conditional Random Fields (CRF) to model tone variation due to intonation effects. We implement three linearchain CRFs which aim at modeling intonation effects at phrasesentenceand story-level boundaries, where we show that standard recognition techniques degrade and common normalization approaches do not improve. We show that all ...

We present a quantitative model of Standard Yorùbá (SY) intonation; it is designed to have parameters that are linguistically interpretable. The model is built and trained on speech data from a native speaker of SY. The resulting model reproduces the data well: its Root Mean Square prediction error (RMSE) is 14.00 Hz on a test set. We find that intonation is used to mark sentence and phrase bou...