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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"pitch contours"”.
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Four-Month-Olds Do Not Prefer But Can Discriminate Infant Directed and Adult Directed Pitch Contours
… the present study was to investigate the role of pitch contours in directing infant attention to adult speech. Several studies have shown that infants from a few days old to 9 months of age prefer infant-directed (ID) over adult-directed (AD) speech. Moreover, 4-month-olds have been shown to …
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The Effect of Linguistic Experience on the Perception of Pitch Contour
… that experience with tonal features such as pitch height, direction, duration, and contour in the L1 of the listener affect the perception of such features. This study consists of a categorical perception experiment to investigate whether native experience with a tone language affects the …
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An evaluation of the urgency, similarity, and identification of aural alerts with implications for flight deck use
… signals having distinctive rhythmic patterns and pitch contours, 2) perceive three urgency levels having distinctive tempos within each alerting set, and 3) associate each alerting set and its related urgency levels with one of the four major flight deck functions. Magnitude estimation ratings …
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Taking attention away from the auditory modality : investigations of the effect on speech processing using machine learning
… representation of linguistically-relevant pitch contours (Mandarin tones), a suprasegmental feature that is critical to the percept of lexical tones. Further, we provide novel evidence that the impact of the visual load is highly dependent on the predictability of the incoming speech …
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THE PORTRAYAL OF WATER AND WAVE PATTERNS IN THE MUSIC OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY
… to truly communicate his feelings. These pitch contours and innovative use of musical language act as signifiers for new correspondences between Debussy’s Water compositions and his twenty-first century followers, extending our knowledge of his genre.
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The perception of intonation in native and non-native linguistic contexts and by different individuals: From question-answer categorization to the integration of prosody and discourse structure
… studied with ERPs the association of specific Pitch Accents with the discourse status of a referent in German and how different processing-correlates of PA violation are processed in L1 and L2 speakers. In all experiments, specific attention has been devoted to individual differences both at …
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Discrimination of Linguistic and Prosodic Information In Infant-Directed Speech by Six-Month-Olds
… nonnative speech and can discriminate specific contours (rising, falling, rising-falling) in ID speech. Some studies have also indicated that infants at 4.5 months of age prefer their own name over other names but at 6 months of age, fail to prefer a sentence with their own name embedded in it. …
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Application of generative models in speech processing tasks
… of speech processing tasks. TEReTA generates pitch contours by incorporating a theoretical model of pitch planning, the piece-wise linear target approximation (TA) model, as the output layer of a deep recurrent neural network. It aims to model semantic variations in the F0 contour, which is …
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Intonation in Indian English and Hindi late and simultaneous bilinguals
… investigating pre-boundary lengthening (PBL), pitch accents and focus. This study shows that simultaneous bilinguals of Hindi and Indian English don’t have two different systems of intonation. They have a merged system probably because they acquired a nativized variety of English; however, …