Polynomial Modeling of Child and Adult Intonation in German Spontaneous Speech.
In a data set of 291 spontaneous utterances from German 5-year-olds, 7-year-olds and adults, nuclear pitch contours were labeled manually using the GToBI annotation system. Ten different contour types were identified.The fundamental frequency (F0) of these contours was modeled using third-order orth...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 199 - 224 |
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| Formato: | equations & formulas pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jun2011
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