pitch accents
Learning to Predict Pitch Accents and Prosodic Boundaries in Dutch
... We train a decision tree inducer (CART) and a memory-based classifier (MBL) on predicting prosodic pitch accents and breaks in Dutch text, on the basis of shal- low, easy-to-compute features. We train the ...
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Using Conditional Random Fields to Predict Pitch Accents in Conversational Speech
... of pitch accents aids in more natural sounding speech, while automatic detection of accents can contribute to better word- level recognition and better textual ...influence pitch accent ...
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Frequency Matters: Pitch Accents and Information Status
... same pitch accent type are ...the pitch accent type does indeed play a role: with an in- crease in frequency comes an increase in vari- ...a pitch accent type become more fre- quent, the distribution ...
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An Intonational Analysis of Mexican American English in Comparison to Anglo American English
... rising pitch accents than Anglo American ...rising pitch accents is shown in relation to their year of birth, primarily to clearly present the data, but it also points to possible group ...
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The role of speaking styles in assessing intonation in foreign accent syndrome
... 12 Intra- and inter-rater reliability was completed on 10% of the data. Samples included sentences, picture descriptions and reading passages from both control speakers and speakers with FAS. Agreement was established ...
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Powers_unc_0153M_14821.pdf
... of pitch slopes for each category, resulting in a continuum rather than clear clusters of "accented" and ...inserting pitch accents, I performed two kinds of ...insert accents or not ...
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Generating Contextually Appropriate Intonation
... First, both pitch accents mark any word that they occur on or rather, its interpretation for "focus", which in the context of such simple queries as example 1 usually implies contrast of[r] ...
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Unsupervised and Semi supervised Learning of Tone and Pitch Accent
... English pitch accents using acoustic features alone to capture pitch target height and ...on pitch accent classification for English broad- cast ...
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Intonation and Gender Difference: A Gender-Based Analysis of Intonational Features in the Talk Show
... of pitch accents of declaratives in the whole speech discourse is made, which mainly focuses on the value of the pitch accents so as to examine that whether there is the gender difference of ...
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Intonation patterns in older children with cerebral palsy before and after speech intervention
... of pitch movements around the prominent syllables (stressed syllables are marked using capital letters H, M, L ...of pitch accents and boundary tones, and (6) ...(high pitch accent), L* (low ...
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Intonation in neurogenic foreign accent syndrome
... which pitch accents and boundary tones the individuals with FAS had at their disposal, whereas the distributional analysis concerned the frequency of use of these ...the pitch-accent-syllable ratio, ...
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Discovering Canonical Indian English Accents: A Crowdsourcing based Approach
... the accents in the training ...representative accents in Indian English and then adapting Acoustic Models for each of those ...English accents exist, it is difficult to come up with a set of ...
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Effect of stimulus type and pitch salience on pitch sequence processing
... An additional factor to consider is that the different ΔF values used to equate the discriminability of the sequence elements across stimulus types may have led to differential activation of the FSDs. Demany et al. ...
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The Word Creation Lexicical Way in Nakhchivan Dialects And Accents
... and accents of Azerbaijan, the other part is using in Nakhchivan ...and accents we tried to deal with majority of ...and accents of Azerbaijan language, also in Nakhchivan ...
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ACQUISITION OF PHYSICS IN COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL: ACCENTS OF CONSTRUCTIVISM APPROACH
... it means that the acquisition of the subject content, formation of experience are implemented not only through senses (in a sensory, inductive way), but also in an indirect, symbolic fo[r] ...
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Pitch perfect: how fruit flies control their body pitch angle
... Our work builds upon an already rich corpus of literature on insect flight control, a sizable portion of which addresses the pitch degree of freedom. Experimental studies subjecting tethered insects to both ...
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Fuzzy Logic Based Voice Recognition as per Their Gender and Age Group
... like pitch, its frequency, power amplitude, total harmonic distortion, and to collect the feature we use MFCC (Mel-frequency Cepstral coefficients) is the technique which helps in collecting the feature of the ...
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Observations of form in Christian Lauba's Dream in a Bar, for baritone saxophone and percussion
... 3.1.1 Pitch as a delineator of form - Analysis PITCH DIVISION #1 - beginning to rehearsal figure 1: The pitch in this section is drawn from five notes; these occur in the percussion with[r] ...
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Listening Comprehension Problems: The Pre-Diploma Students’ Insights and Experiences
... Despite the fact that listening is one of the fundamental skills to develop in English language learning, most of the pre-diploma students at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Cawangan Melaka often regard listening as a ...
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