Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0342800

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0342800

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Uptalk in Australian English Intonation. Australian English speakers often use rising instead of falling intonation at the end of sentences which are not questions. This phenomenon of uptalk is one of the unique traits of the Australian English accent. The project will model uptalk by analyzing spoken dialogues from 150 speakers from three major populations, Sydney, Melbourne, and regional Victoria. The intonation patterns of regional and non-Sydney populations have been poorly investigated, so this kind of study is needed to get a more complete understanding of Australian English intonation and the Australian accent. Outcomes will include publications on intonation and laboratory phonology, sociophonetics, and a working model of intonation that can be implemented in speech output systems for Australian English.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2003

End Date: 31-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $75,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Linguistics | Laboratory Phonetics And Speech Science

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Studies in human society |

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Laboratory Phonetics And Speech Science | Linguistics | Studies in human society

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