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

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English is the official language of the West African country, which was founded in part by freed American slaves. By Shawn McCreesh and Zolan Kanno-Youngs Reporting from Washington “Where did you ...

In this video, we explore how deaccenting in English intonation signals 'given information.' Various examples illustrate the concept of deaccenting, including iconic phrases like "Bond, James Bond," ...

Researchers decode ancient Greek music by reconstructing its exact tuning and intonation. Credit: wikimedia commons / Basedakov CC B Y 4.0 More than two thousand years after ancient Greek and Roman ...

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Linguistics is a fascinating subject that can often be confusing, especially as language rules can often contradict. That being said, tone and intonation are two concepts that are often confused.

This repository holds code used in writing "CoVoSwitch: Machine Translation of Synthetic Code-Switched Text Based on Intonation Units," to appear in Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the ...

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 ...