Abstract Functional data analysis (FDA) is a fast-growing area of research and development in statistics. While most FDA literature imposes the classical $$\mathbb {L}^2$$ L 2 Hilbert structure on function spaces, there an emergent need for differ...

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In this paper we introduce Functional Data Analysis (FDA) as a tool for analyzing dynamic transitions in speech signals. FDA makes it possible to perform statistical analyses of sets of math­ ematical functions in the same way as classical multivariate analysis treats scalar measurement data. We illustrate the use of FDA with a reduction phenomenon affecting the French word c ’etait /se ts/ ‘it...

This article reports on a study investigating the intonational realization of context-changing and context-preserving contrastive topics in German. Results of the pilot study show that both kinds of topics can be marked by different pitch accents on the topic constituent, although speakerspecific differences emerge. When speakers do use different pitch accents, low rises (L*H) exclusively occur...