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, ...

This matters because intonation (the rise and fall of speech that conveys emotion, emphasis, and intent) can flip meaning ...

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 ...

1 School of Educational Science and Technology, Anshan Normal University, Anshan, Liaoning, China 2 Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Intonation is the variation in ...

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 ...

Around 60–70% of world languages are tonal (Yip, 2002), predominantly using contrastive f 0 variations to differentiate lexical and grammatical changes. Spreading across Asia, Africa, (indigenous) ...

This important study examines the relationship between expiratory airflow and vocal pitch in adult mice during the production of ultrasonic vocalizations and also identifies a molecularly defined ...