Intonational structure of kumamoto Japanese: a perceptual validation
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A phonological model of intonation was proposed for Kumamoto accentless Japanese and the validity of the model was examined by means of perception experiment. Twenty intonation contours including both well-formed and ill-formed ones were synthesized from the original by means of LPC resynthesis. Naturalness judgments given by 19 native Kumamoto speakers indicated that well-formed contours were more natural than ill-formed ones.
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