Intonation is an integral part of communication for all speakers. But can sign languages have intonation? A new study shows that signers use their faces to create intonational ‘melodies’ just as ...

Intonation or the pitch pattern of your voice is important in spoken English because it conveys meaning in many ways. In this episode and the accompanying study notes we will learn about intonation, ...

Verbal irony refers to any utterance in which the speaker’s words mean something different from their intended meaning (e.g., “You’re really on top of things” said to a disorganized person). For ...

Department of Computer Science and Electronics, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Modeling emotions in speech synthesis are made based on a number of parameters such as place, the level ...

This paper identifies modern Yiddish intonation patterns for three different semantic structures and contends that they derive from modern (Ashkenazic) talmudic chant. An examination of the ...

Research is part of an international project that includes the language as spoken in Brazil in a database of several Romance languages (photo: FFLCH-USP) Agência FAPESP – In addition to its own ...