PMID: 3771924Oct 1, 1986Paper

Sentence intonation in textual context--supplementary data

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
N G Thorsen

Abstract

The experiment presented here is a sequel to a previous investigation [N. G. Thorsen, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 77, 1205-1216 (1985)] and was designed to show whether a sequential fundamental frequency lowering of individual sentence components is present in a semantically, but not necessarily syntactically, coherent sequence (a text), when the number of sentences exceeds three. The results show that such a sequential lowering may appear, though it is not evenly distributed across the text. However, the textual intonation contour is sensitive not only to the number of sentences that make up the text, but also to the length of individual sentence components.

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