Introduction: From AmeriQuests to Contours

From Cones to Contours

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From Prosodic Structure to Intonation Contours

The design of a set of rules for generating Swedish intonation in a text-to-speech system containing a linguistic preprocessor is presented.

From Meaningful Contours to Discriminative Object Shape

Shape is a natural, highly prominent characteristic of objects that human vision utilizes everyday. But despite its expressiveness, shape poses significant challenges for category-level object detection in cluttered scenes: Object form is an emergent property that cannot be perceived locally but becomes only available once the whole object has been detected and segregated from the background. T...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Introduction to circular data

In many diverse scientific fields, the measurements are directions. For instance, a biologist may be measuring the direction of flight of a bird or the orientation of an animal. A series of such observations is called ”directional data”. Since a direction has no magnitude, these can be conveniently represented as points on the circumference of a unit circle centered at the origin or as unit ...