this article addresses the phonetic and phonological representation of h- phrase accent in the tonal structure of persian pre-nuclear accents. in an experimental study, three groups of pre-nuclear accentual phrases, namely, phrases with antepenultimate, penultimate and final stress pattern, were selected for tonal examination. materials were designed so as to yield under-pressure and pressure f...

In this study, we analyzed prosodic features of accentual phrases and investigated their temporal changes to obtain cues for detecting boundaries at where turn-taking could occur in spontaneous conversations. The acoustic parameters used as prosodic features were the fundamental frequency, sound pressure level, and duration of accentual phrases in long utterance units. The results showed that t...

This paper describes the principal features of the intonational system of Chickasaw, a Muskogean language spoken in southcentral Oklahoma. Results of the study are as follows. The Intonational Phrase (IP) consists of one or more Accentual Phrases (AP) which can be larger or smaller than a word. The underlying tonal pattern of the AP is [LHHL]. Chickasaw statements are characteristically marked ...

This study explores pitch range variation in Korean spontaneous narratives and read transcripts of the same narratives. There are two research goals. One is to examine whether pitch range variation helps mark discourse segment boundaries and signal the hierarchy of discourse segment purposes. Another is to see whether categorical differences in pitch range encode the contrast between the two in...

The current study examines the realization and distribution of high (H) tones in Bengali across different sentence types and under varying focus domain sizes, to show that Bengali tonally marks three prosodic phrases above the word instead of two – Intonation Phrases (IP), Intermediate Phrases (ip), and Accentual Phrases (AP) – and that focus realization can be derived without the lexically-spe...

This paper provides a description of prosodic structure and intonational properties of Koasati, an endangered Muskogean language spoken by approximately 300 people in Louisiana and Texas. Words in Koasati group into Accentual Phrases (AP), which are characterized by an initial and final high tone. Accentual Phrases in turn combine to form Intonational Phrases (IP), which are defined by a final ...

Pitch contour of a speech utterance plays an important role in expressing speaker's individuality and meaning of the utterance. In performing speech conversion from a source speaker to a target speaker, it is important that the pitch contour of the source speaker’s utterance be converted into that of the target speaker. This paper investigates statistical algorithms of pitch contour conversion ...

Suffixes can surface or can be suppressed depending on context in Korean. Shin (1982) argues that the case markermarked phrases deliver new information, while the case marker-suppressed phrases given information. The tonal pattern of the Accentual Phrase in Korean, LHLH, is not specific to morphological constituents within the phrase but is a property of the phrase (Jun 1993). Given that prosod...

The parsing of an intermediate phrase into its component accentual phrases in Japanese has had many proposed mechanisms. The most common theories have involved syntactic configurations, and, recently, optimality theory has been gaining in popularity. This study examined the speech of five female speakers of Standard Tokyo dialect of Japanese. These speakers demonstrated that accentual phrase co...