Questions tagged [pitch-accent]
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How many beats is a syllable?
I’ve read some sources that say a syllable is “one beat” but I don’t understand that. Wouldn’t it depend on the tempo of the pulse. I.e, if a tempo is 60bpm can’t you fit different numbers of ...
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Do People and/or Robots Speak on Pitch and in Harmony with themselves?
I'm not sure if I should post this to Linguistics or Music Theory, but here goes:
My ear is not good enough to tell via observation whether people speak in musical scales, which would seem likely for ...
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Resources on stress, tone and pitch evolution
I am interested in the stress, tone and pitch (STP) aspects of historical linguistics. How do phonetic and other types of changes affect STP changes? How do languages end up with entirely different ...
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Easier to understand some foreign languages with a higher pitch
As a bit of background:
I've native level in English and French, I can understand day to day discussions in German and Spanish and I'm able to understand what's going on in a conversations in Italian, ...
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Why do I speak in a lower (deeper) voice in foreign languages compared to my mother tongue
I'm a native German speaker. I myself and friends have noticed, that when I speak in English, my voice becomes lower (deeper) and if I speak in Finnish, even lower than in English. If I concentrate I ...
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Choosing/Adjusting settings away from the standards in a Praat script
I am analyzing dyadic conversations for speech characteristics through pre-written script. I spoke with an expert in speech analysis prior to data collection as an introduction to praat. He suggested ...
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Do stressed (in e.g. English) or pitched (in e.g. Japanese) phones contribute to different phonemes?
In proper tonal languages such as cantonese or mandarin, the phones a phoneme comprises of share the same tone. In other words, mā (in pinyin) and má are clearly different phonemes.
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Are there any standards for the manual modification of fundamental frequencies in Praat?
While analysing pitches with Praat, I'm often faced with the problem, which is, I must modify the F0 data manually since there are always some octave up points or other points which is impossible to ...
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What type of stress does French have
So I know that there are on the one hand pitch-accent languages (like South-Slavic languages, Greek, Norwegian, etc.) where the accentuated syllable is indicated by a particular pitch contour/tone ...
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What’s a good example a language phenomena in which f0 is NOT correlated to pitch?
It’s standard doctrine that “pitch is perceived f0”, and that f0 is phonetic and corresponds to pitch which is phonological ... no problem there. (Even if this is a simplification)
But I wonder if ...
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In what sense if f0 not an objective measurement?
I always assumed a dichotomy between f0 and pitch, such that the former is objective/physical whilst the latter is subjective/mental.
Then, I was introduced to this presentation and article.
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How is "rising tone" the same in all tonal languages?
If we compare two unrelated languages with lexical tone, where both languages have the same number of tonal contrasts, are there any universals/tendencies regarding:
the kinds of tonal contrasts (...
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Pitch movements in English
As each language can be said to have an "inventory" of pitch movements which are felicitous (?) or anyway possible, I wonder what sequences of pitch movements characterize English (but not e.g. French ...
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Sound files for Lithuanian pitch accent distinctions?
I'm looking for sound files that illustrate the distinction between the two pitch contours of long vowels and diphthongs in Lithuanian, e.g. kóšė (falling pitch) vs. kõšė (rising pitch). Does anyone ...
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Pitch-Accent languages like Ancient Greek sometimes acquire a dynamic component. Any papers on this change?
This is kind of the opposite of tonogenesis. All languages with stress use a combination of pitch, force and duration to represent a stressed syllable. Some use only (or primarily) pitch.
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How are Tone and Intonation languages different acoustically?
On what aspects Tonal languages differ from Intonation languages when analyzing them acoustically?
On intonation and tone: Jones (1960) - "the variations which take place in the pitch of the ...
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Difference between pitch and intensity
I would like to understand what is the difference in lignuistic betwen pitch and intensity.
On the picture (taken from native HK speaker), I have a Cantonese sentence.
Nei5 Jiu3 Caa4 Maa3 ?
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Are there documented languages that evolved from tonal to nontonal?
There is a theory about tonogenesis for the Chinese language, thus Chinese had once a more complex syllable-structure and no tones. In the course of time, the syllable structure became less complex ...
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Are there languages in which lexical pitch accent and phonemic vowel length vary independently?
According to Glottopedia, lexical pitch accent happens when the only indicator of an accent (aka stress) on the syllable is pitch--elevated pitch on the accented syllable. (http://www.glottopedia....
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