This paper investigates various aspects of intonation and phonation in young adults with Down syndrome. The speech of nine speakers with Down syndrome was analyzed acoustically for different aspects of intonation and phonation. The results of these analyses were compared to similar speech samples of nine typical speakers of Standard British English. The controls were matched for age and gender....

Non-native speakers often have difficulties with prosody; stress and intonation patterns that differ from those of native speakers can contribute to “foreign accent,” even at high proficiency levels. Although effects of a listener’s native language on the perception of prosody are well established, few studies have examined non-native prosody production. In particular, it is not known whether t...

Tone and intonation share the common feature of being carried mainly by the fundamental frequency of voice (F0). The ease of obtaining F0 measurements, thanks to the wide availability of software tools and the fact that F0 is largely one-dimensional, have allowed researchers to perform extensive studies on tone and intonation. But ease of observation does not necessarily mean ease of understand...

This paper presents some preliminary data from a study which investigates the intonation patterns of Malay speakers of English (MSEs). The study examines the MSEs’ intonation using Brazil’s [4] Discourse Intonation (DI) approach as the main method of analysis, with a view to modifying DI for this variety in view of how meaning is conveyed and understood. The spoken discourse of MSEs collected u...

This paper aims to examine the interaction of intonation and lexical tone within the framework of Articulatory Phonology, by investigating the timing relationship between oral articulatory gestures and tone-related/intonation-related F0 dynamics. Specifically, we compared the consonant-vowel-F0 (C-V-T) coordinative patterns at phrase-final position and at phrase-medial position. We found that t...

A sentence-final particle (SFP, henceforth) is an optional component for a sentence in Cantonese. Traditionally an SFP contains at least one independent segment. The present study proposes that for sentences without a segmental SFP, sentencefinal intonation can act as a segmentless SFP. Systematical acoustic experiment was conducted based on this assumption. Two cross-cutting dichotomies were c...

the main priority in literary criticism, is defining a structure and abstaining from imposing personal views. in the framework of discourse analysis theory (style, intonation and punctuation marks are considered) and on the basis of contrastive linguistics, the author has tried to criticize the translation of a story “french lessons” written by valentine rasputin and translated by mrs. maryam s...

TTS-synthesis of neutral style Greek with good intelligibility and quality has been achieved some time ago. As a further step towards expanding the applications domain of the TTS-system developed in our laboratory, the incorporation of emphasis into speech used in man-machine dialogues according to their context has been studied recently. In this paper the method applied for the analysis of int...