This study aims at investigating the interface between emotion and intonation patterns (more specifically, duration and pitch amplitude of speech). To this end, the acoustic properties of spectral parameters related to speech prosody are investigated. The results of acoustic and Statistical analysis show that mean level and range of FO in the contours vary strongly as a function of the degree o...

This paper describes the prosodic characteristics of a female Dutch native speaker with so-called Foreign Accent Syndrome. Although Foreign Accent Syndrome has often been regarded as a speech disorder which is characterized by substantial deviations in intonation patterns, the case of a Dutch-speaking patient is reported whose intonation patterns can be regarded as normal.

the polysemy and lexical similarity of the linguistic structures may lead to ambiguity in the speech and latency. but since a language needs to be away from this deficiency so as to be functional and useful, it needs to be cleansed from such meaning latencies based on the available indications. one indication that can be categorized among the verbal indications is the sentence intonation. by ch...

Different sentence types are cued by various intonation patterns in English. Statements are uttered with a falling pitch while questions are cued by a raising pitch over the whole utterance. The intonation of questions in Cantonese, however, is signalled by a rising pitch at the second half of the last syllable. The current study investigates the intonation of statements and questions in Hong K...

This paper deals with intonation of spontaneous Russian. It contains a description of the principles of prosodic annotation used in the new corpus of spontaneous speech—CoRuSS, and statistical data derived from this corpus. The prosodic annotation system was developed specially for the purpose; it is an extension and development of a well-known system of Intonation Constructions by E. A. Bryzgu...

This paper explores the advantages and disadvantages of using TL_ToBI to teach English intonation to Spanish native speakers in a distance learning environment. A study was carried out to compare the production of English intonation patterns by two groups of Spanish students of English phonetics, each of them trained with a different methodology: 1) the British School of intonation and 2) TL_To...

Presented in the paper is a software system designed to train learners in producing a variety of recurring intonation patterns of speech. The system is based on comparing the melodic (tonal) portraits of a reference phrase and a phrase spoken by the learner and involves active learner-system interaction. Since parametric representation of intonation features of the speech signal faces fundament...