The determination of the right resolution parameter when estimating frequency functions for linear systems is a trade-off between bias and variance. Traditional approaches, like “window-closing” employ a global resolution parameter – the window width – that is tuned by ad hoc methods, usually visual inspection of the results. Here we suggest an adaptive method that tunes such parameters by an a...

In a recent article, House (1977) describes an experiment which he interprets as evidence against the two-channel theory for the abstraction of pitch relationships proposed by Deutsch (1969). The methodology used in this experiment was, however, inappropriate for a test of this theory. According to the model of Deutsch (1969), the abstraction of pitch relationships takes place along two separat...

Recent studies on the analysis of intonational function examine a r a n ~ of materials from cue phrases in monologue (Litman and Hirschberg, 1990) and dialogue (Hirschberg and Litman, 1987; Hockey, 1991) to longer utterances in both monologue and dialogue (McLemore, 1991). Results match specific intonational tunes to certain discourse functions which are more or less well defined. Although thes...