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Foreign Accent and Forensic Speaker Identification in Voice Lineups: The Influence of Acoustic Features Based on Prosody
Published on: September 27, 2024
Focus in production: tonal shape, intensity and word order
Abstract:
The effect of word order and prosodic focus on the tonal shape and intensity in the production of prosody was studied. The results show that the production of focus in Finnish follows a global pattern with regard to tonal features. The relative pitch height difference between contrasted words is the most important pitch-related factor in signaling narrow prosodic focus. Narrow focus is not localized to prosodically emphasized words only but relates to the utterance as a whole. It was also found that syntactic structure with respect to both intensity and tonal structure modulated relative prosodic prominence of individual words.
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