A new look at intonational phonology introduces FUNCTION, TIME, and the LISTENER as essential theoretical categories of prosody with reference to a wide array of language data.

ing away from all other features, in the underlying form[nasal] changes from+ to – synchronously with the change in [continuant]from – to +. This is described by a simple interval structure in whichthe nasal and the continuant interval systems are aligned according tothe timing tier, with no lag in either. IFS corresponds to a somewhatmore complex interval structure in which...

This paper deals with how to construct Text To Speech (TTS) systems for Chinese dialects. The proposed method adapts Chinese Mandarin TTS system to dialects TTS systems through representing dialect phonology by Mandarin phonology using phonology mappings, and adding dialect vocabulary in the front end to handle lexical difference. But not all Chinese dialects are suitable for applying this adap...