The aim of this paper is to present a phonetic and phonological analysis of the intonation of Riyadh Saudi Arabic (RSA). This paper focuses on the basic intonation patterns in sentences and questions. Section 2 of this paper gives a description of the methodology used in determining the intonation patterns. I also describe intonation and stress in declarative, imperative, and interrogative sent...

This study investigated the significance of different intonation markers in intonation perception, and the effect of lexical tone on the perception of intonation. Six tonal contrasts at the final position were presented to twelve listeners in three presentation conditions: complete sentence, carrier-only and final-syllable-only. Results showed similar perceptual accuracy in both complete senten...

This paper presents an intonation generation system for use in a text-to-speech synthesis system. The intonation generation system uses classification trees to predict intonation event location and regression trees to predict parameters relating to the F0 shape for the predicted events. The decision trees model intonation within the Tilt intonation model, which provides a parameterized descript...

Intonation, long thought to be a key to effectiveness in spoken language, is more and more commonly addressed in English language teaching through the use of speech visualization technology. While the use of visualization technology is a crucial advance in the teaching of intonation, such teaching can be further enhanced by connecting technology to an understanding of how intonation functions i...

This paper, through a close examination, builds missing links between three types of focus constructions in Japanese: Cleft, Sluicing, and socalled ‘No da’ in-situ focus construction. Adopting Rizzi’s (1997) articulated CP clause architecture, we demonstrate that these missing links are provided with a syntactic explanation. We also discuss a syntaxphonology interface phenomenon, namely, the in...

This article explores the relationship between intonational patterns and its with speech rhythm discourse, according to dynamic systems research program. The study of these relationships were based on Barbosa’s (2006) Dynamic Model Speech Rhythm; Dato annotation system proposed by Lucente (2008); Computational Structure Discourse, Grosz & Sidner (1986). Rhythm suggests that is result action...

This study investigates the effects of speaking rate and intonation on the duration of tones in Mandarin Chinese. My previous study found that the effect of intonation on the duration of tones is tone-dependent, i.e., the final falling tone is longer in question intonation than in statement intonation, whereas the final rising tone has similar duration for the two intonation types. In this stud...

Multiple cues interact to signal multiple functions in intonation simultaneously, which makes intonation notoriously complex to analyze. The Autosegmental-Metrical model for intonation analysis has proved to be an excellent vehicle for separating the components, but evidence for the phonetics/phonology dichotomy on which it hinges has proved elusive. Advocating a multidisciplinary approach, thi...