ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
A Musical Approach to Speech Melody.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Intervallic intonation: Applying the Implication-Realization model of musical melody to speech intonation and prosody.PloS one · 2025Article
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- The vocal origin of musical scales: the Interval Spacing model.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of Melodic Intonation Therapy in Chinese Mandarin on Non-fluent Aphasia in Patients After Stroke: A Randomized Control Trial.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Eros, Beauty, and Phon-Aesthetic Judgements of Language Sound. We Like It Flat and Fast, but Not Melodious. Comparing Phonetic and Acoustic Features of 16 European Languages.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
We present here a musical approach to speech melody, one that takes advantage of the intervallic precision made possible with musical notation. Current phonetic and phonological approaches to speech melody either assign localized pitch targets that impoverish the acoustic details of the pitch contours and/or merely highlight a few salient points of pitch change, ignoring all the rest of the syllables. We present here an alternative model using musical notation, which has the advantage of representing the pitch of
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