The prosodic phenomena discussed in the foregoing chapters were all instances of linguistic prosody. Prosody, however, also involves extra-linguistic characteristics, such as emotion. In this chapter we investigate whether or not differences in emotional speech are characterized by different modalities. In music the difference between sad and cheerful melodies is often indicated as a difference...

An acoustic analysis of a German dialogue corpus showed that the sound qualities and durations of fricatives, vocoids, and diphthongs at the ends of question and statement utterances varied systematically with the utterance-final intonation segments, which were high-rising in the questions and terminal-falling in the statements. The ways in which the variations relate to phenomena like sibilant...

This article explores the relationship between intonational patterns and its with speech rhythm discourse, according to dynamic systems research program. The study of these relationships were based on Barbosa’s (2006) Dynamic Model Speech Rhythm; Dato annotation system proposed by Lucente (2008); Computational Structure Discourse, Grosz & Sidner (1986). Rhythm suggests that is result action...

OBJECTIVES Intonation may serve as a cue for facilitated recognition and processing of spoken words and it has been suggested that the pitch contour of spoken words is implicitly remembered. Thus, using the repetition suppression (RS) effect of BOLD-fMRI signals, we tested whether the same spoken words are differentially processed in language and auditory brain areas depending on whether or not...

In this paper, a detailed acoustic feature study of foreign accent using temporal features, intonation patterns, and frequency characteristics in American English is performed. Using a database which consists of words uttered in isolation, temporal features such as voice onset time, word-nal stop closure duration, and characteristics of duration are investigated. Accent diierences for native-pr...

This paper reports on work which is currently being carried out to consolidate the phonological analysis of Maltese within the AutosegmentalMetrical framework used in other work on intonation and in previous work of the author. Consolidation of the phonological analysis of prosodic structure and intonation in Maltese is expected to go hand in hand with annotation of data from a small corpus of ...

Previous studies on Cantonese Chinese showed that rising question intonation contours on low-toned words lead to frequent misperceptions of the tones. Here we explored the processing consequences of this interaction between tone and intonation by comparing the processing and identification of monosyllabic critical words at the end of questions and statements, using a tone identification task, a...