We investigate the use in Mandarin tone recognition of over two hundred possible local acoustic features based on pitch, overall intensity, and band-passed intensity in the rhyme of a syllable. Features involving pitch height are not as useful as one might expect, showing the need for phrase-level pitch height correction. The intensity contour is useful, particularly when rhyme-initial intensit...

In some tone languages, contour tones (pitch changes within a syllable) may be used contrastively. The phonological distribution of contour tones has been of much theoretical interest, as it sheds light on both the representation of tone (Woo 1969; Leben 1973; Goldsmith 1976; Bao 1990; Duanmu 1990, 1994a; Yip 1989, 1995) and the relation between phonetics and phonology (Duanmu 1994b; Gordon 199...

This study investigates whether subjects use a strategy of word recognition in a rhyme-monitoring task. Results suggest that this is indeed the case. In addition, however, the task introduces an effect of phonological priming of the cue word.

We report data from an experiment in which participants performed immediate serial recall of visually presented words with or without articulatory suppression, while also performing homophone or rhyme detection. The separation between homophonous or rhyming pairs in the list was varied. According to the working memory model (Baddeley, 1986; Baddeley & Hitch, 1974), suppression should prevent ar...

This paper reports on an acoustic phonetic study of the VC rhyme in two Australian English dialects. The aim is to examine the timing features of the rhyme to determine the extent to which characteristics of Arabic predict differences between the two dialects. Eight speakers of Standard Australian English and seven of Lebanese Australian English were recorded using a standard word list task. Re...

Purpose. This article is devoted to the consideration of linguistic essence internal rhyme, as well analysis rhyme terms depending on their number and location within one or different verse segments functioning in poetic texts German Romantics. Scientific originality research lies common interest modern linguistics study means sound organization expression speech, lack this subject.
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