The correlation between Information Structure and prosody has been central in theoretical and experimental studies. In particular, many studies have shown that focus induces particular prosodic patterns cross-linguistically. In Japanese, for instance, pitch register of the words following a focused element is reduced (called ‘post-focus/focal reduction’ in Sugahara 2003 and Ishihara 2003, 2007;...

This paper introduces the concept of Simicry, defined as similarity of mimicry, for the purpose of second language acquisition. We apply this method using a computer assisted language learning system called Ville on foreign students learning Swedish. The system deploys acoustic similarity measures between native and non-native pronunciation, derived from duration syllabicity and pitch. The syst...

Persian clitic groups differ from words. Most importantly, a pitch accent (L+)H* is associated with the word-final (i.e. base-final) syllable of clitic groups, but with the word-final syllable of words, meaning that clitics remain outside the domain of the word. The pitch accent marks the stress, but we found no independent durational or spectral differences between stressed and unstressed syll...

In this paper we present the EASY (Electro-Acoustic muSic analYsis) Toolbox software system for assisting electro-acoustic music analysis. The primary aims of the system are to present perceptually relevant features and audio descriptors via visual designs to gain more insight into electro-acoustic music works and provide easy-touse “click-and-go” software interface paradigms for practical use ...

 longevity of osseointegrated implants are intensely influenced by biomechanical factors. Control of these factors prevents mechanical complications, which include fracture of screws, components, or materials veneering the framework. In this study, the impact of length and threads pitch of dental implants on the stress distribution and maximum Von Mises stress in implant-abutment complex and ja...

because of fluctuation in leg tension, pitch motion is very effective fatigue and life safety of leg elements in tension leg structures (tlss). in this paper an exact solution for pitch vibration of a tls interacting with ocean wave is presented. the legs of tlp are considered as elastic springs. the flow is assumed to be irrotational and single-valued velocity potentials are defined. the effec...

engineering in order to develop different types of automations like PLC, micro The Rotary Automated Car Parking System (RACPS) belongs to the class of The programming of the microcontroller has been accomplished by using. used in an automatic car parking system software platform: from operational management and the control of pitch, converter, gearbox and brakes to PLC for control purposes), on...

Sub-resolution assist features (SRAFs) provide an absolutely essential technique for critical dimension (CD) contro1 and process window enhancement in subwavelengt h lithography. However, as focus levels change during manufacturing, CDs at a given Gilegai” pitch can fail t o achieve manufacturing tolerances required for adequate yield. Furthermore, a d o p tion of off-axis illumination (OAI) an...

An algorithm which combines voice / unvoiced decision and pitch estimation is proposed in an enhanced process of MFCC feature extraction. The residual energy of LPC analysis and normalized autocorrelation are calculated and the static and dynamic thresholds are set for the voiced, unvoiced and transitional decision. Thus speech is divided into three classes that are voiced, unvoiced and transit...