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Melodic accent: Experiments and a tentative model
1982
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
The perception of accent in tone sequences is a constructive process in which physical cues are matched against anticipated accents. The anticipation of the observer can experimentally be controlled by embedding the short tone sequence to be investigated in a context with a meter: method of controlled anticipation. An investigation of melodic accentuation, resulting from the succession of frequency intervals, revealed that in principle every change of frequency level between two successive
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