An array of magnetic variometers has been operated in the south-east corner of the Australian mainland, observing the coast effect simultaneously in two dimensions for the first time. The observations are presented as sets of variograms in the time domain and as contour maps of certain parameters in the frequency domain. Vertical field response functions are determined for each station, and the...

EP listeners seem to pay attention to phonetic detail specificities of the speech signal, which allow them to start building their internal representation of the intonation contour very early in the sentence. Using the Gating Paradigm methodology (Grosjean 1980, 1996), 20 European Portuguese (EP) native speakers were presented with auditory speech stimuli gated in specific sentence locations, w...

The aim of this study was to investigate intonation patterns in Cantonese using a quantitative approach. The commandresponse model was employed to explore the differences between intonations, and the effects of lexical tone on fundamental frequency (F0) contours of intonation. Two intonation types (statements and questions), with six tonal contrasts embedded at the final position of the utteran...

most of the contour detection methods suffers from some drawbacks such as noise, occlusion of objects, shifting, scaling and rotation of objects in image which they suppress the recognition accuracy. to solve the problem, this paper utilizes zernike moment (zm) and pseudo zernike moment (pzm) to extract object contour features in all situations such as rotation, scaling and shifting of object i...

The current paper presents a system that generates tones automatically from utterances and sentences. Users were asked to speak a sentence displayed on the screen with any arbitrary tone sequence (level and falling tones is preferred). The system records the utterance, determines the correct tone sequence from the sentence, determiners syllable boundaries by force-aligning the utterance, genera...

We give a simple proof of a nice formula for the means and covariances of the diagonal sums of a uniformly random boxed plane parition. An a × b × c boxed plane partition is an a × b grid of integers between 0 and c inclusive, such that the numbers decrease weakly in each row and column. At the right is a 4 × 5 × 6 boxed plane parition, which for convenience we have drawn rotated 45◦. We have a...