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This paper deals with F0 declination in Russian. The study was conducted using statistical data derived from the Corpus of Professionally Read Speech to determine F0 declination patterns, to describe several aspects of declination line such as top-line F0 variations due to the type of utterances having different intonation contours, to confirm or reject the steepness-duration dependency found for other languages.
The results confirm the relationship between F0 slope and the utterance length for Russian. At the same time they reveal strong dependency of the slope on the intonation pattern of the utterance: thus complete final declaratives have steeper slope than non-final units, interrogatives with rising nuclear tone display no declination in the pre-nuclear part, the results also show individual strategies in pre-planning declination slope of the intonational phrase.
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Kocharov, D., Skrelin, P., Volskaya, N. (2014). F0 Declination Patterns in Russian. In: Ronzhin, A., Potapova, R., Delic, V. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8773. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11581-8_27
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