This paper addresses the modelling in text-to-speech of the rising intonation pattern in American English which is often found in yes-no questions. A small corpus containing yes-no questions was recorded and analysed. F0 was then modelled using an automatic procedure. The paper also reports on the stability of alignment of F0 targets in rising intonation patterns.

The present study try to clarify the deep essence and structure of Chinese intonation by objectively approach to the production process of tone and intonation and their interaction based on the acoustic-phonetic observation. Our main attention is paid to examine (1)what is the basic intonation pattern for the whole course of utterance and how it is formed? (2) how the lexical tone patterns inte...

Research on intonation in spoken varieties of Arabic has revealed a high degree of variability across dialects. Question intonation in particular may be a locus of variation, since the morphological structure of questions itself varies. This study examines the intonational patterns of Yes/No questions in Urban Najdi Arabic. Although it is a widely spoken dialect, intonation in Urban Najdi Arabi...

In French, the intonation of post-focus items is not clearly determined. Traditional descriptions claim that post-focus intonation entirely depends on that of the focus via a process of tonal copy; other accounts argue for either autonomous patterns or a binary independent choice between a high and a low tone. To clarify this issue, this paper investigates the melodic patterns of right-dislocat...

The aim of this study was to investigate lexical tone production in Cantonese speakers associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD speakers). The effect of intonation on the production of lexical tone was also examined. Speech data was collected from five Cantonese PD speakers. Speech materials consisted of targets contrasting in tones, embedded in different sentence contexts (initial, medial and f...

PURPOSE In this study, the authors aimed to determine whether children with dyslexia (hereafter referred to as "DYS children") are more affected than children with average reading ability (hereafter referred to as "AR children") by talker and intonation variability when perceiving speech in noise. METHOD Thirty-four DYS and 25 AR children were tested on their perception of consonants in natur...

Infant-directed speech (IDS) is characterized by exaggerated intonation patterns and short, simple phrases. Because these exaggerated intonation patterns frequently convey a small, stereotyped range of emotional signals, we might expect particular words, like good or no, to be realized with consistent pitch contours. This consistency in a word’s pitch realization might facilitate word recogniti...

The main goal of our current research is the development of the Swedish prosody model. In our analysis of discourse and dialogue intonation we are exploiting model-based resynthesis. By comparing synthesized default and fine-tuned pitch contours for dialogues under study we are able to isolate relevant intonation patterns. This analysis of intonation is related to an independent modelling of to...