pitch contour

NOUN
  1. rise and fall of the voice pitch
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How To Use pitch contour In A Sentence

  • The eigenvector extracted by this curve fitting can avoid negative effects of the error endpoints and normalize the length of the pitch contour .
  • I've seen someone who taught a Yorkshire terrier to imitate slowly rising pitch contours, and have myself sung along with a mutt who seemed to imitate motifs from George Jones and Mozart.
  • Specifically, tone is a pitch contour that begins on an accented SYLLABLE and continues to the end of a tone group: that is, up to but not including the next stressed syllable.
  • In Korn's unfortunate sentence, where the ambiguities are structural, a skilled speaker could easily signal the desired analysis by differences in timing, pitch contour and voice quality.
  • There are plenty of interesting things to say about these pitch contours, but irony and sarcasm are not an essential part of the discussion.
  • To be more precise, his phrase-final pitch contours range from slightly falling, to level, to sharply rising.
  • Each sentence we speak has a pitch contour associated with it that can be broken down into smaller sequences of elementary contours associated with linguistic phenomena.
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