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This paper investigates the influences of three different reading styles ( Lyric, Critical and Explanatory) to the distribution tendency of sentential accents (classified as rhythmic accent and semantic accent). The comparison among multiple styles is performed in three research domains: high-level constructions, low-level phrases and disyllabic prosodic words. One finds that the assignment of ...

Abstract Linguistic research refers to many related accents in Southeast England: Standard Southern British English (SSBE), Received Pronunciation (RP), Estuary (EE), Cockney and Multicultural London (MLE). However, there is inconsistency imprecision the demarcation of these based on linguistic social factors. This paper delineates England patterns co-variation which we then relate predictors. ...

There are many Czech text written without any accents. The paper describes a tool for fully automatic restoration of Czech accents. The system is based on a simple approach of big lexicon. The resulting accuracy of the system evaluated on large Czech corpora is quite high. The system is in regular use by hundreds of users from around the whole world.

We investigate the effect of accent on comprehension of English for speakers of English as a second language in southern India. Subjects were exposed to real and TTS voices with US and several Indian accents, and were tested for intelligibility and comprehension. Performance trends indicate a measurable advantage for familiar accents, and are broken down by various demographic factors.

The present study was designed to examine the production of the Swedish tonal accents in children with language impairment and normal controls in order to verify previous findings. The productions of 25 children with linguistic impairment and their matched controls, aged 4;4-10;0 (mean age 5;11) were evaluated by ratings of fundamental frequency patterns, and by perceptual analysis by ten lingu...

Automatic Accents Identification is very important for discussion especially within scope of speaker recognition. Some contribution of appropriate techniques uses in Music Recognition and Accent Identification may contributes in improving the recognition rate. Techniques in discussing on music genre identification or accents automatic identification and the combination of both processes still i...

backdrop against which F0 is interpreted linguistically”. Tonal coherence within the prosodic phrase 73 However, Liberman and Pierrehumbert (1984) show that the major factors shaping the F0 contour are local ones, and, consequently, that it is not necessary to assume any time-dependent declination. The downward trend of F0 is explained by a combination of a final lowering effect and the usage o...

The formant space of three major English accents namely British, American and Australian are modelled and used for accent conversion. Accent synthesis, through modification of the acoustic parameters of speech, provides a means for assessing the perceptual contribution of each parameter on conveying an accent. An improved method based on a linear prediction (LP) model feature analysis and a 2-D...