How listeners weight acoustic cues to intonational phrase boundaries.

The presence of an intonational phrase boundary is often marked by three major acoustic cues: pause, final lengthening, and pitch reset. The present study investigates how these three acoustic cues are weighted in the perception of intonational phrase boundaries in two experiments. Sentences that co...

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Main Authors: Xiaohong Yang, Xiangrong Shen, Weijun Li, Yufang Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4096911?pdf=render