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| | Pitch accent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In a pitch-accented language, there is one accented syllable or mora in a word, the position of which determines the tonal pattern of the whole word. | | | Pitch accent is a kind of accent system employed in many languages around the world. | | | In other Indo-European languages, such as Swedish, Norwegian, Lithuanian, and Serbo-Croatian (from Proto-Slavic), a new pitch accent system evolved that is unrelated to that of Proto-Indo-European. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_accent
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| | ACCENT - LoveToKnow Article on ACCENT |
| | Besides various later developments of usage it is important to observe that " accent " is used in two different and often contrasted senses in connection with language. | | | These two senses, it is to be noticed, are different from the common usage of the word in the statement that some one talks with a foreign or with a vulgar accent. | | | In words of four syllables with a long penult and words of five syllables with a short penult there probably developed a secondary accent which in course of time replaced the earlier accent upon the first syllable. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/A/AC/ACCENT.htm
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| | Against Marking Accent Locations in Japanese Textbooks |
| | Beckman and Pierrehumbert claim that a syllable bears a high or low pitch only when it is in word or phrase initial/final position, in a second position in a word or phrase, or when it is lexically accented. | | | Onishi (1942) argued that because the function of accent is to differentiate the meaning of, or to make prominent a portion of, a word or phrase, any set of features that can serve these purposes (e.g. | | | More problematic examples are found when a lexically accented syllable is devoiced, e.g. |
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http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~hasegawa/Accent/accent.html
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| | Pitch accent systems themselves, of course, are a hybrid in the traditional typology standing between “stress” languages like English on the one hand and “tonal” languages like Mandarin Chinese or Yoruba, on the other. | | | If the input has multiple accents then one is projected as the word accent: the leftmost one in both systems. | | | Then when accented suffixes are integrated to calculate the word-level accent, their prominences must be equalized to the level of the head of the compound (a standard feature of compound accent — see Chomsky & Halle 1968). |
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http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/kenstowicz/ijal.doc
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| | If this pitch contour classificator is embeded in a system that implements sentence grammar, the accented syllable is known by the system and the sentence accent pattern can be looked up. | | | Therefore, the automatic extraction of the sentence accent is performed by automatic pitch accent classification. | | | In that experimental stage, auditively labeled pitch accents of the test set are used to evaluate the recognition rates. |
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http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~jliu/papers/Paper_Madrid.doc
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| | Pitch accent |
| | Pitch accent languages, like Japanese and Swedish, mark each word with a specific tonal melody and changing the melody can change the meaning of the word. | | | Another way of evaluating pitch is to examine how it interacts with the intonational patterns of the language. | | | Kaneko, I. metrical analysis of Blackfoot nominal accent in optimality theory. |
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http://www.fp.ucalgary.ca/howed/new_page_12.htm
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| | First the phrase accent is unlike the boundary tone in that it is not necessarily localized at the phrase edge. | | | The conventions say that the phrase accent should be placed here even when the nuclear accent occurs quite early and the phrase tone is realized over a long period of time, as in these two example utterances. | | | The !H- phrase accent here is reduced to a mid level by the downstep triggered by the preceding L+H* nuclear pitch accent. |
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http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/research/phonetics/E_ToBI/ToBI/ToBI.2.html
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| | Shanghai Dialect Introduction: Tones and Pitch Accent |
| | An utterance in Shanghainese is the boundary of a pitch accent pattern and usually binds lexical items (and in such cases they are considered as a word in this site). | | | Knowing word boundaries (including number of s llables in each word) is extremely important for Shanghainese. | | | The classic example is the one-word Tsomi and two-word tso Mi, see below. |
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http://www.zanhe.com/intro/pitch.html
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| | Njaama Tone |
| | Here the accent can be said to be on the second syllable, and so that's where the pitch drop is. (This particular word is actually bimorphemic, however, so it's a little different, but for our purposes, it works.) Anyway, so this is a Type 4 word. | | | In order to differentiate it from the other syllable, the tone is high, since the stressed syllable has to stand out. | | | If we wanted to show this process graphically, we could do it like this: |
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http://dedalvs.free.fr/njaama/tone.html
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| | In this coding project, we are less concerned with uncertainty than the unique aspects of natural language.The following coding description was modified from Mari's POSH labeling guide. | | | See Section 5 for instructions on how to handle uncertainty. | | | or higher phrase must have a *, so if the only accent is a *? |
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http://www.cog.brown.edu/~mgregory/coding.manual.html
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| | Japanese pitch accent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In this view, a word either has a downstep or it does not. | | | Japanese pitch accent is a feature of the Japanese language. | | | 3 Examples of words which differ only in pitch |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pitch_accent
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| | Encyclopedia article on Pitch (music) [EncycloZine] |
| | For example, if the A above middle C is 440 Hz, the A an octave above that will be 880 Hz. | | | Pitches may be described in various ways, including high or low, as discrete or indiscrete, gliding or portamento, and as determinate or indeterminate. | | | Visit Curious-Minds.co.UK for educational games and toys, and science kits. |
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http://encyclozine.com/Pitch_(music)
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| | Shanghai Dialect Tones and Pitch Accent |
| | This pattern only includes words beginning with an initial high-pitched syllable (in other words, with an acute accent marked on the first syllable). | | | A polysyllabic Shanghainese word (including its postpositions particles) in general can take on one of 3 pitch accent patterns. | | | The accent system is most similar to Japanese. |
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http://www.zanhei.com/pitch.html
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| | Chapter 2: Phonology Section 3: Pitch-Accent |
| | Thus, the rate of increase between disyllabic word and a pentasyllabic word is very dramatic, though both begin and end at the same level. | | | The Telek accentual system is based on pitch accent. | | | The high pitch on the peak (and subsequent syallables in formal speech) is represented as [3]. |
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http://smithma.bol.ucla.edu/Telek/Content/Phonology/pitchaccent.html
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| | IU Phonetics Lab: Pitch Accent and Boundary Tone Examples |
| | (2 of the forms are missing because the difference between late falling (H*+L) and plain High (H*) accent are neutralized before a low phrase tone (in LL% and LH%).) | | | IU Phonetics Lab: Pitch Accent and Boundary Tone Examples | | | Below are examples of the 22 intonation contours which are gotten by a combination of 6 pitch accents and 4 boundary tone combinations. |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~phonlab/intonation_ex.htm
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| | pitch (music) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about pitch (music) |
| | Pitch can now be measured accurately by electronic tuning devices. | | | Pitch also refers to the standard to which instruments are tuned. | | | In music, the technical term used to describe how high or low a note is. It depends on the frequency (number of vibrations per second) of the sound, which is measured in hertz (Hz). |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Pitch+(music)
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| | Illustration of accent |
| | Komar (1971) views accents as being created at the point at which a new pitch configuration is generated. | | | Cooper and Meyer (1960) define accent as "a stimuli (in a series of stimuli) which is marked for consciousness in some way." They regard accent as a relational concept and as axiomatic in that it is understandable experientially but undefined causally. | | | Lester (1986) defines accent as a point of emphasis or initiation, which is considered strong in relation to its surroundings. |
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http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/courses/rhythm/illustrations/accent.html
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| | accent on Encyclopedia.com |
| | COURTESYOF HYUNDAI (September 10) The 2004 Hyundai Accent. | | | ACCENT [accent] in speech, emphasis given a particular sound, called prosodic systems in linguistics. | | | Lord Brian Hutton, mercredi, à Londres Accent aristocratique et visage austère, unanimement présenté depuis des mois comme. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/a1/accent.asp
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| | 5aSC8. Pitch accent, phrase tones, and vowel devoicing in Tokyo Japanese. |
| | However, preliminary analyses of these data show the occurrence of the characteristic pitch pattern after a devoiced region is dependent on the pitch height before the devoiced region. | | | If two syllables are consecutively devoiced and the first one bears an accent, the pitch elevation only occurs when the antepenultimate syllable has a low phrase tone. | | | This suggests a nonlocal pitch adjustment exists dependent on the occurrence of devoicing and the location of phrase tones. |
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http://www.auditory.org/asamtgs/asa97pen/5aSC/5aSC8.html
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| | Pitch accent in spoken-word recognition in Japanese |
| | NICI > Publications > 1999 > Pitch accent in spoken-word recognition in Japanese | | | Cutler, A., and Otake, T. Pitch accent in spoken-word recognition in Japanese. | | | Together these findings provide strong evidence that accentual information constrains the activation and selection of candidates for spoken-word recognition. |
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http://www.nici.kun.nl/Publications/1999/11635.html
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| | Language Learning Forum: Pitch accent vs. stress accent |
| | My native language Swedish is a pitch accent language. | | | Those are the only that I know of, but I think it's hypothesized that the original Indo-European language was pitch-accented, and all of it has become stress-accented except for a small vestige (Swedish) and in a very archaic/conservative language (Lithuanian). | | | I don't think it is a real pitch accent language but what I sometimes noticed that every word is accented as if it were pronounced seperately i.e. |
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http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=917&PN=1
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| | pitch accent - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | pitch accent : WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "pitch accent" is defined. | | | pitch accent : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=pitch+accent&ls=a
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| | Pitch Accent and Vowel Devoicing in Tokyo Japanese (ResearchIndex) |
| | This devoicing, then, would obliterate the pitch accent were it not for other effects which preserve the presence and location of the accent. | | | Please bear with us while we fix the problem. | | | Previous studies showed that when the accented vowel is devoiced, there is either a pitch raising after the devoiced region or an accent shift to nearby moras. |
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http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/54449.html
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| | Greek Alphabet, Pronunciation, Accentuation and Numerals |
| | More information on Unicode can be found here. | | | Apprenez l'alphabet grec (by François J. Bayard): this is an ideal website to learn the Greek alphabet, although accents and breathings are not considered here. | | | For those who want to know more on the origin and historical evolution of the Greek alphabet, I refer to the section History of the Greek Language. |
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http://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~u0013314/greekg/alphabet.htm
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