The understanding of speech melody, ie, pitch variations related to tone and intonation, can
be improved by simultaneously taking into consideration two basic facts: that speech …

This paper reports the development of a quantitative target approximation (qTA) model for
generating F 0 contours of speech. The qTA model simulates the production of tone and …

This paper deals with the intonation of polar (yes/no) questions in Greek. An experiment was
devised which systematically manipulated the position of the focused word in the question …

This paper examines the patterns of durational adjustment of mono-morphemic four-syllable
words in Standard Chinese when different constituents of the word are focused for …

We present in this article an acoustic study on tone sandhi and tonal coarticulation in Tian**
Chinese. Our results indicate that Tian** tone sandhi is likely influenced by Standard …

The goal of this study is to examine (1) whether and how the F0 contour of a sequence of
neutral tones in Standard Mandarin is affected by the following full tone due to anticipatory …

This article presents the nature and the implementation of prosodic representations. The
prosodic structure is considered to be fundamentally different from the morphosyntactic …

It is hypothesized that pauses at major syntactic boundaries (ie, grammatical pauses), but
not ungrammatical (eg, word search) pauses, are planned by a high-level cognitive …

Across languages and linguistic phenomena, rises in spoken pitch seem to occupy a
privileged position compared to steady F0 or pitch lowering. Speakers are more likely to use …

Although the pitch of the human voice is continuously variable, some linguists contend that
intonation in speech is restricted to a small, limited set of patterns. This claim is tested by …