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Pitch and compass of the speaking voice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Wiktor Jassem
Affiliation:
(Acoustic Phonetics LaboratoryDepartment of Cybernetic AcousticsInstitute of Fundamental Technical ResearchPolish Academy of Sciences)

Extract

There are many unsolved problems concerning the linguistic interpretation of intonation curves obtained instrumentally. Among the major ones are (1) How accurate must the instrumental data be to make sure that no linguistically relevant information is missed? (2) Which of the details of the intonation curve are linguistically relevant? (3) How should the graph be scaled? (4) How should the curves be normalized so as to neutralize individual (speaker-dependent) differences?

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1971

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