ESCA Workshop on Prosody Lund, Sweden September 27-29, 1993

Intonational Consequences of Varying the Accent Location

Aart De Zitter, Bert Van Coile

Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Ieper, Belgium; University of Gent, Dpt. of Electronics and Information Systems, Gent, Belgium

An experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of varying the location of the (unique) sentence accent on the concrete melodic behavior of that accent. More specifically, we measured the onset, the duration and the size of both the rise and the fall on the so-called 'pointed hat' on the accent. The main finding was that accents are getting smaller the later they occur in the sentence.

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Bibliographic reference.  Zitter, Aart De / Coile, Bert Van (1993): "Intonational consequences of varying the accent location", In Prosody-1993, 172-175.