The paper presents problems arising in the analysis of intonation patterns in speech, their interpretation and usage for the needs of Speech Technology. Multiple functions of intonation are discussed from points of view of acoustic phonetics, linguistics and psychology. The results of a comprehensive, multilevel analysis of prosody may be directly used, above all, in a system of automatic speec...

Makala hii imechunguza suala la propaganda kama mkakati wa kuhimili hejemonia katika riwaya teule za Kiswahili. Mtafiti amejadili namna inatumiwa kudumisha na kuimarisha utawala viongozi mintarafu ya teule. Ili kutimiza lengo lake, mtafiti amehakiki nne: Msimu Vipepeo, Dharau Ini, Msururu Usaliti Majilio Mkombozi. Nadharia inayoweka wazi mabwanyenye juu raia kueleza udumishaji uwezo mamlaka wat...

is usually called the covering function of A. Clearly wA(x) is periodic modulo the least common multiple NA of the moduli n1, . . . , nk. As in [S99] we call m(A) = minx∈Z wA(x) the covering multiplicity of A. Let m ∈ Z. If wA(x) > m for all x ∈ Z, then we call A an m-cover of Z. If A is an m-cover of Z but At = {as(ns)}s∈[1,k]\{t} is not (where [a, b] = {x ∈ Z : a 6 x 6 b} for a, b ∈ Z), then ...

Lahaja za kiAmu, kiMvit̪a zafa, na lahaja nyenginezo kiSwahili yasemekana zishakufa. Makala haya yanaonesha kuwa usuli wa matatizo ni mapungufu ya juhud̪i kukisanifisha wakat̪i ukoloni. Vigezo va uwamilifu kut̪afaut̪isha maana, kiwango cha matumizi saut̪i hiyo katika lugha, mambo yaliyopuuzwa Kamati Lugha kwa sababu kut̪afut̪a unafuu kusanifisha. Tukifuwatʰa nadhariya-tʰetʰe Kina Othografiya, hizi amil...

STRESZ CZE nIE Wstęp. Jed ną z en do pro tez bez ce men to wych jest en do pro te za Zweymülle ra (ZM). W Kli ni ce Or to pe dii i Trau ma to lo gii UM w Po zna niu zo sta ły wy ko na ne kom plek so we ba da nia kli nicz ne i ra dio lo gicz ne u 180 cho rych le czo nych ope ra cyj nie w la tach 1995-2004 z uży ciem tej en do pro te zy. Ma te riał i me to dy. Ma te riał sta no wi 180 cho rych (2...

Polish presents an interesting case for testing alternative phonetic implementations of prominence: It has fixed lexical stress on the penultimate, it has been difficult to classify within the classic ‘stress-timing’ vs. ‘syllable-timing’ dichotomy [1, 2, inter alia] and its stress is regarded as ‘weakly expressed’ [3]. We investigate acoustic correlates of Polish prominence patterns in a corpu...