Perceptual assimilation model posits that the perceived relation of non-native sounds to native sound categories predicts the discriminability of non-native sounds [1]. This study examines whether the degree of perceived similarity between Vietnamese tones and English intonation patterns predicts the accuracy of tone-contrast discrimination. In a categorization task, ten native English speakers...

Data scarcity in corpus-based intonation modelling for TTS applications is addressed. We propose to apply a searching process to a list of dictionaries of classes of intonation patterns previously trained from corpus to avoid problems associated with the scarce number of samples in the classes. Results indicate that better results are obtained in comparison with previous alternatives where the ...

Intonation is one parameter of prosody that gives information on the production aspects of linguistic prosody. The aim of this study was to understand the terminal intonation patterns of different types of sentences in three languages Kannada, Tulu and Konkani. Four simple sentences, one for each sentence type namely, declaratives, exclamatory, interrogatives, and imperatives were taken and rec...

This study investigated the influence of intonation patterns on lexical tone identity. The use of intonation in tonal languages poses an interesting research question since changes in the fundamental frequency (F0) of phonation serve two separate functions at the same time: marking of lexical meaning at the syllabic level and signaling intonation patterns at the sentential level. Speech materia...

This article presents MEMOInt, a methodology to automatically extract the intonation patterns which characterize a given corpus, with applications in text-to-speech systems. Easy to understand information about the form of the characteristic patterns found in the corpus can be obtained from MEMOint in a way which allows easy comparison with other proposals. A visual representation of the relati...

This paper investigates the intricate patterns of tone and intonation interaction by sampling and comparing data across a few interactive terms. We identify situations with different degrees of tonal effects on intonation, and suggest that the prominence level, or prosodic strength, associated with narrow focus is a key factor controlling the magnitude of the effect.

This paper analyzes the intonation patterns of Nepali Feedback units. Both eliciting and giving feedback units with basic, acceptance and additional level function have been collected from a spoken language corpus. The excerpts have been taken from transcriptions of 35 recordings, along with their audio files from 11 different social activities with both male and female participants, a total of...