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...

In a production and perception study the relation was studied between the emotion or attitude expressed in an utterance, and the intonation pattern realized on that utterance. In the production study, the pitch curves of emotional utterances were labelled in terms of the IPO intonation grammar. One intonation pattern, the ‘1&A’, was produced in all emotions studied. Some other patterns were spe...

Thai intonation can be categorized as paralinguistic information of F0 contour of the utterance. There are three classes of intonation pattern in Thai, the Fall Class, the Rise Class, and the Convolution Class. This paper presents a method of intonation pattern recognition of Thai utterance. Two intonation feature contours, extracted from F0 contour, were proposed. The feature contours were con...

In a production and a perception study, the relation between the emotion or attitude expressed in an utterance, and the intonation pattern realized on that utterance was investigated. In the production study, the pitch contours of emotional utterances were labelled in terms of the IPO intonation grammar. One intonation pattern, the 1&A, was produced in all emotions studied. Some other patterns ...

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...

This paper is concerned with the phonetic correlates of main stress in Italian and presents the analysis of the duration of syllabic nuclei in connected speech and in different speaking styles. Spontaneous dialogues are analysed basing on earlier works on pre-planned speech which investigated both [+stress] / [-stress] and stress/accent contrasts in Italian. The aim of this study is to examine ...

English intonation can be difficult for L2 speakers to learn, particularly for those whose L1 intonation system works differently from English. This study investigates whether Hong Kong English (HKE) speakers whose L1 is Cantonese have knowledge of the appropriate English intonation patterns in specific contexts. Results from an intonation pattern selection tasks indicate that HKE speakers (n =...

The present study attempts to analyze intonation in Central Kurdish, the Sorani variety spoken Slemani Iraqi Kurdistan. Intonation refers pitch fluctuations used by a speaker express meanings. To carry out analysis, embraces theory of Cognitive Phonology. claim that there is relationship between linguistic expression and its meaning. Accordingly, it hypothesized meaning an utterance shaped part...

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 ...