Sentence examples for underlying accent from inspiring English sources
Whereas so much music has for its framework a regular repetition of underlying accent, whether stress or durational, the framework of plainchant is irregular.
As can be seen, the prosodic structure as reflected by the configuration of underlying accent commands aligned with accented syllables remains intact throughout all conditions, although the amplitudes Aa, durations, and alignments of commands vary.
Obviously, the sentence was chunked into single words, even syllables, associated with underlying accent commands and often separated by pauses.
The prosodic structure reflected by the underlying accent commands in the fast version gives way to an almost completely flat F0 contour and a very high value of Fb in the very fast condition.
Her Yorkshire accent, underlying toughness and salty humour remain intact.
And, of course, there was the underlying class and accent question, a 'not one of us' matter, which still, amazing as it seems, can surface with effect when all else fails.
The figure displays the following, from the top to the bottom: the speech waveform, the F0 contour (+signs, extracted; solid line, model-based), the German SAMPA phone segmentation, the underlying phrase, and accent commands.
Our findings suggest that increased social relevance of, or greater emotional sensitivity to in-group accents, may underlie the own-accent bias.
Figure 1 Most important alignment options for linking accent commands with underlying syllables.
First, we assessed how prosodic realizations vary with speech rate and examined phrase command magnitudes, the number of phrase commands as well as the base frequency, accent command amplitudes, and the timing of accent command with respects to the underlying syllables and their nuclear vowels.
Evaluating the alignment between phrase and accent commands with respect to the underlying syllables, while taking into account the status of these syllables as either being lexically stressed or not, we associated each accent command with the closest syllable.
