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In this chapter, further research on emotional encoding is conducted on the overall emotional intonation patterns of two typologically distinct languages, the tonal language of Mandarin Chinese and the pitch accent language of Japanese. The overall patterns are compared to demonstrate the encoding schemes of two groups of speakers. Moreover, the PENTA model (qTA) with a functional point of view is adopted in simulating emotional intonation, and examining the efficiency of intonation components, such as boundary tones in expressing emotions.
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Li, A. (2015). Emotional Intonation Modeling: Applying PENTA Model to Chinese and Japanese Emotional Speech. In: Encoding and Decoding of Emotional Speech. Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47691-8_6
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