Sentence examples for prosodic contour from inspiring English sources

Again, the classification was carried out by HMMs, which model the prosodic contour for each clause and/or sentence modality type.

The lists of unrelated words were spoken with an approximation to a normal prosodic contour.

In experiment 1, categorization of speech stimuli that gradually varied in their prosodic pitch contour (between statement and question) involved (1) an auditory ventral pathway along the superior temporal lobe and (2) auditory-motor dorsal pathways connecting posterior temporal and inferior frontal/premotor areas.

(DOCX 14 kb) Additional file 2: F0 contours and prosodic labelling of the final tunes Statements.

Classification of emotional content of short Finnish emotional [a:] vowel speech samples is performed using vocal source parameter and traditional intonation contour parameter derived prosodic features.

The prosodic information usually contains the pitch contour, duration, and energy parameters.

Based on recent studies (Schön et al. 2004; Magne et al. 2006; Wong et al. 2007) one might expect an enhanced sensitivity for pitch contours in musicians during prosodic processing.

Hedberg et al. (2004) 'es examination of the interface between intonation and meaning of English questions in real speech reveals that the prosodic structure, specifically, the direction of the final contour, is fundamental to interactional pragmatic meaning.

A visual representation of the relationship between the set of prosodic features which could have been selected to label the corpus and the intonation contour patterns is also easy to obtain.

Inspired by the work in [18], before training the F0 features by NNs, we adopted CWT to decompose the F0 contour into several temporal scales, which can then be used to model different prosodic levels ranging from micro-prosody to the sentence levels.

MEMOInt can also be used to obtain valuable information about the relative impact of the use of different parameterization techniques of F0 contours or of different types of intonation units and information about the relevance of different prosodic features.