this paper provides a critical analysis of heidegger’s brief remarks in his “letter on humanism” in which he links ethics to ethos and ultimately to our relation to time and history. central to this analysis is the phrase of heraclitus, ēthos anthrōpōi daimōn, from which heidegger claims that human living (ethos) is inseparable from the event of appropriation (ereignis) which generates our hist...

The present study investigates the prosodic features of Jinan EFL learners as they express new vs. given information in terms of accent distribution, phrase segmentation and intonation pattern. According to the present study, under the influence of Jinan dialect, the learners produced errors in the accent position, especially within the multi-syllabic words. Compared with the native speakers, t...

This paper presents a study on the control of fundamental frequency (F0) in Cantonese text-to-speech (TTS) systems. The surface F0 contour of an utterance is considered as the combination of tone-related local components and phrase-level long-term variation. A novel method of F0 normalization has been developed to effectively separate them. Statistical analysis is performed for the phrase curve...

This paper presents our new approach to model tone coarticulation of Chinese continuous speech for tone recognition. We suggest that coarticulation effects between two neighboring tones are rather unstable, since they may be uni-directional, bi-directional, or none despite of the same phonetic contexts. Instability is suggested due to non-local prosodic events like prosodic phrase boundaries or...

This paper presents a study on the control of fundamental frequency (F0) in Cantonese text-to-speech (TTS) systems. The surface F0 contour of an utterance is considered as the combination of tone-related local components and phrase-level long-term variation. A novel method of F0 normalization has been developed to effectively separate them. Statistical analysis is performed for the phrase curve...

F0 values of filled pauses (FP) in the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese were analyzed to examine the mechanism by which the F0 heights of FP were determined. Statistical analyses of the F0 values of FP occurring in between two full-fledged accentual phrases (AP) revealed correspondence between the occurrence timing of FP and the F0 height. Based upon this finding, 5 models of F0 prediction were p...

In previous studies of Japanese intonational phonology, levels of prosodic constituents above the Major Phrase have not received much attention. This paper argues that at least two prosodic levels exist above the Major Phrase in Japanese. Through a detailed investigation of the intonation of gapping and coordination in Japanese, we argue that each syntactic clause projects its own Intonational ...

Disyllabic sequences in Shanghai Wu undergo different types of tone sandhi depending on their syntactic structure: modifier-noun compounds spread the initial tone across the disyllable, while verb-noun phrases often maintain the final tone and neutralize the nonfinal tone, especially if the phrase has a low frequency of occurrence. We investigated the productivity of the two tone sandhi types t...