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PROSODY AND THE MUSIC OF THE HUMAN SPEECH

ROBERTO D'AUTILIA

Dipartimento di Fisica Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217979204025063Cited by:2 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We propose the use of a self-oscillating dynamical system — the pre-Galileian clock equation — for modeling the laryngeal tone. The parameters are shown to be the minimal control needed for generating the prosody of the human speech. Based on this model, we outline a peak delay detection algorithm for extracting the prosody of the real speech.

This paper is dedicated to Francesco Guerra. (This paper belongs to the Special Issue (IJMPB 18, Nos.4–5) dedicated to Prof. Francesco Guerra.)

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