Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation, which are used by speakers of all
languages in order to give shape to utterances. More specifically, tone encodes segments …

Prosody conveys information about the linguistic context of an utterance at every level of
linguistic organisation, from the word up to the discourse context. Acoustic correlates of …

A series of experiments was carried out to test the idea that there is a categorical difference
between “normal” and “emphatic” accent peaks in English, rather than a continuum of …

This paper introduces the Tilt intonational model and describes how this model can be used
to automatically analyze and synthesize intonation. In the model, intonation is represented …

This study investigates effects of three prosodic factors—prosodic boundary (Utterance-
initial vs. Utterance-medial), lexical stress (primary vs. secondary) and phrasal accent …

A great many languages of the world exhibit phenomena of FO DOWNTREND–phenomena
whereby, other things being equal, the fundamental frequency (Fo) of the speaking voice …

We say that a linguistic entity is prosodically prominent when it stands out from its
environment by virtue of its prosodic characteristics. That is, we define prominence as a …

The paper reports on a web-based perception experiment investigating the perceptual
prominence of seven attested nuclear pitch accent types plus deaccentuation in German …

This article is concerned with an interesting upstep phenomenon in the intonation of some
speakers of Southern dialects of German. It experimentally establishes the main properties …

Five perception experiments were conducted that investigated how the perceived
prominence of F0 maxima in accented syllables in Dutch is affected by the variation of F0 …