OBJECTIVE An auditory rhythm can be perceived as a sequence of accented (loud) and non-accented (soft) beats or it can be imagined. Subjective rhythmization refers to the induction of accenting patterns during the presentation of identical auditory pulses at an isochronous rate. It can be an automatic process, but it can also be voluntarily controlled. We investigated whether imagined accents c...

The two German pitch accents H+L* and L*+H show different duration and intensity patterns in the triplet of pre-accented, accented, and post-accented syllable. Combining the pattern of H+L* with the F0 peak of L*+H and vice versa lowered the identification of the two pitch accents. The implications of these findings for pitch-accent modelling are discussed.

Speech recognition systems have made tremendous progress since the last few decades. They developed significantly in identifying speech of speaker. However, there is a scope improvement nuances and accents It known that any specific natural language may possess at least one accent. Despite identical word phonemic composition, if it pronounced different accents, we will sound waves, which are fr...

We report the results of a pilot study investigating the effect of 2 regional accents on stressed vowel duration according to word-position and syllable type in Central v. Northern accents of Standard Italian. While there is overall convergence, we also find significant regional differences in some contexts, i.e. closed syllables, and antepenultimate position. We then consider the implications ...

We used a corpus of collaborative task oriented dialogues in American English to compare two units of rhythmic structure – pitch accents and syllables – within the coupled oscillator model of rhythmical entrainment in turn-taking proposed in [1]. We found that pitch accents are a slightly better fit than syllables as the unit of rhythmical structure for the model, but we also observed weak supp...