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ANALYSIS BY SYNTHESIS OF ENGLISH INTONATION PATTERNS: GENERALISING FROM FORM TO FUNCTION.

This paper presents a general model for the relation between representations of form and function for speech prosody on a multi-lingual basis. It outlines a procedure for analysing prosody by synthesis applied to English intonation patterns, generating formal representations from a minimal representation of prosodic functions and comparing the output with the observed data. This then allows the functional representation to be enriched and tested to see whether it provides a closer fit to the data.

Daniel Hirst | Saandia Ali

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