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Showing 1 to 20 of 158 for “"Intonation"”.
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Intonation in Luo
This thesis investigates the intonation of Luo. It shows how intonation distinguishes sentences. It also investigates how information structure (i.e. focus, dislocations and topics) is intonationally cued in a sentence. The aim is to establish the phonological and phonetic representation of Luo …
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Intonation and interface conditions
… investigation of the interaction between focus intonation pattern (FIP) and certain syntactic phenomena-especially those involving wh-questions-in Japanese. A phonological mechanism of FIP formation is proposed that accounts for the variety of FIPs observed in various syntactic configurations. …
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Intonation, perception, and language.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Thesis. 1966. Ph.D.
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Intonation and the Beginning Clarinetist
No abstract prepared.
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Dynamic intonation for synthesizer performance
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1997.
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A characterization of American English intonation.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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The applicability of the O'Connor and Arnold model of English intonation to the analysis of Luxembourgish intonation
… and Arnold model for the analysis of English intonation can be applied to the analysis of Luxembourgish intonation. After defining the concepts of intonation as applied in this dissertation, the main points of several other important studies on English intonation are discussed. This is …
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Intonation and second language acquisition : a study of the acquisition of English intonation by speakers of other languages
… acquisition (SLA) research, the study of intonation, and prosodic systems generally, suffers from a considerable under-representation.This has far-reaching consequences. From the large body of empirical work on various aspects of SLA over the last three decades, a great deal has been …
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Intonation Processing In Individuals With Parkinson's Disease
… Ma et al, 2007) production and perception of intonation in non-emotional (Cheang et al., 2004; Ma et al., 2007) and emotional (e.g., Breitenstein et al., 1998; Cancelliere & Kertesz, 1990) contexts. Studies on perception have shown evidence that individuals with Parkinson's disease have …
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'The Auditive Intelligence': Intonation in Henry James
… literary history; because in James’s writing intonation possesses a prosodic sophistication typically reserved for verse, the auditive intelligence forms part of his broader aspiration to transform the cultural status of the novel.
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The phonology and phonetics of English intonation
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1980.
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An investigation of the relationship between singing intonation and string playing intonation among college level and professional string players
… or not there is a relationship between singing intonation and string playing intonation among college level and professional string players in Northern California. For the purpose of this study a convenient sampling method was used to recruit participants according to their availability. Thirty …
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Tons et intonation dans la langue agni indénié
… de décrire et d'expliquer le rôle du ton et de l'intonation dans les langues à ton en général et en particulier dans l'agni indénié. La description vise à faire ressortir les phénomènes qui résultent du ton et ceux résultant de l'intonation en agni indénié. Nous espérons que les explications …
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Intonation And Reading Skills In Fourth-Grade Students
… of the current study was to examine the role of intonation skills in the reading comprehension of fourth-grade students. Although, the National Reading Panel's (2000) definition of reading fluency as "...the ability to read a text quickly, accurately, and with proper expression..." (p. 3-5) …
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Intonation Perception In Elderly And Young Adult Subjects
… elderly individuals have difficulty perceiving intonation, especially in emotional context. However, the nature and the extent to which this problem affects the communication ability of these individuals are poorly understood. Most studies use isolated sentences which unlike natural discourse …
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Phonetic and Phonological Evidence for Intermediate Phrasing in Spanish Intonation
In Spanish, each intonation phrase is comprised of at least one or more intermediate phrases. By definition, the end of an intonation phrase is also the end of its final intermediate phrase, and in this position, T- and the boundary tone T% (marking an intonation-phrase boundary) combine to …
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Phonetic and Phonological Evidence for Intermediate Phrasing in Spanish Intonation
… an auto segmental-metrical (AM) framework of intonation, the melody of an utterance is understood as stemming from a series of tones associated to both stressed syllables and the boundaries of hierarchically-organized prosodic constituents that make up an utterance. Two possible constituents …
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