Methods In Prosody

Author : Ingo Feldhausen, Jan Fliessbach,Maria del Mar Vanrell
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961101047

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Methods in prosody by Ingo Feldhausen, Jan Fliessbach,Maria del Mar Vanrell Pdf

This book presents a collection of pioneering papers reflecting current methods in prosody research with a focus on Romance languages. The rapid expansion of the field of prosody research in the last decades has given rise to a proliferation of methods that has left little room for the critical assessment of these methods. The aim of this volume is to bridge this gap by embracing original contributions, in which experts in the field assess, reflect, and discuss different methods of data gathering and analysis. The book might thus be of interest to scholars and established researchers as well as to students and young academics who wish to explore the topic of prosody, an expanding and promising area of study.

Author : Stefan Sudhoff,Denisa Lenertova,Roland Meyer,Sandra Pappert,Petra Augurzky,Ina Mleinek,Nicole Richter,Johannes Schließer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110914641

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Methods in Empirical Prosody Research by Stefan Sudhoff,Denisa Lenertova,Roland Meyer,Sandra Pappert,Petra Augurzky,Ina Mleinek,Nicole Richter,Johannes Schließer Pdf

This book contains a collection of cutting-edge papers on methodological aspects of prosody research. Current approaches to the gathering, treatment, and interpretation of prosodic data are discussed by experts in the field, illustrated by their own empirical research. Contributions focus on the choice and measurement of prosodic parameters, the establishment of prosodic categories, annotation structures for spoken-language data, and experimental methods for production and perception studies (including the construction of materials, modes of presentation, online vs. offline tasks, judgement scales, data processing, and statistical evaluation). The volume will serve as a handbook linking data collection and interpretation, allowing researchers in linguistics and related fields to make more informed decisions concerning their empirical work in prosody.

Author : Maria del Mar Vanrell,Ingo Feldhausen,Jan Fliessbach
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013291654

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Methods in Prosody by Maria del Mar Vanrell,Ingo Feldhausen,Jan Fliessbach Pdf

This book presents a collection of pioneering papers reflecting current methods in prosody research with a focus on Romance languages. The rapid expansion of the field of prosody research in the last decades has given rise to a proliferation of methods that has left little room for the critical assessment of these methods. The aim of this volume is to bridge this gap by embracing original contributions, in which experts in the field assess, reflect, and discuss different methods of data gathering and analysis. The book might thus be of interest to scholars and established researchers as well as to students and young academics who wish to explore the topic of prosody, an expanding and promising area of study. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Dagmar Barth-Weingarten,Elisabeth Reber,Margret Selting
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027226334

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Prosody in Interaction by Dagmar Barth-Weingarten,Elisabeth Reber,Margret Selting Pdf

Prosody is constitutive for spoken interaction. In more than 25 years, its study has grown into a full-fledged and very productive field with a sound catalogue of research methods and principles. This volume presents the state of the art, illustrates current research trends and uncovers potential directions for future research. It will therefore be of major interest to everyone studying spoken interaction. The collection brings together an impressive range of internationally renowned scholars from different, yet closely related and compatible research traditions which have made a significant contribution to the field. They cover issues such as the units of language, the contextualization of actions and activities, conversational modalities and genres, the display of affect and emotion, the multimodality of interaction, language acquisition and aphasia. All contributions are based on empirical, audio- and/or video-recorded data of natural talk-in-interaction, including languages such as English, German and Japanese. The methodologies employed come from Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics.

Author : Beatrice Szczepek Reed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137045140

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Analysing Conversation by Beatrice Szczepek Reed Pdf

Spoken interaction is impossible without prosody. Intonation, pitch register, tempo, rhythm, pausing, loudness and voice quality all contribute to the spontaneous negotiation process that is everyday talk. This highly accessible introduction to the prosody and analysis of everyday conversation explains basic concepts and methods of interpretation using a wealth of examples from real-life conversations. Readers are introduced to the many conversational practices prosody plays a part in through sample analyses, all of which are available to listen to as downloadable audio files on the accompanying companion website: www.palgrave.com/analysingconversation Packed with authentic examples, practical suggestions for analysis, suggestions for further reading and a helpful glossary, this clear and comprehensive guide is essential reading for students and researchers alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : LBASS
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780616220030

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Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2008 Conference by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anna Esposito,Antonietta M. Esposito,Alessandro Vinciarelli,Rüdiger Hoffmann,Vincent Müller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642345845

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Cognitive Behavioural Systems by Anna Esposito,Antonietta M. Esposito,Alessandro Vinciarelli,Rüdiger Hoffmann,Vincent Müller Pdf

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the COST 2102 International Training School on Cognitive Behavioural Systems held in Dresden, Germany, in February 2011. The 39 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The volume presents new and original research results in the field of human-machine interaction inspired by cognitive behavioural human-human interaction features. The themes covered are on cognitive and computational social information processing, emotional and social believable Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) systems, behavioural and contextual analysis of interaction, embodiment, perception, linguistics, semantics and sentiment analysis in dialogues and interactions, algorithmic and computational issues for the automatic recognition and synthesis of emotional states.

Author : Keikichi Hirose,Jianhua Tao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783662452585

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Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis: Modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis by Keikichi Hirose,Jianhua Tao Pdf

The volume addresses issues concerning prosody generation in speech synthesis, including prosody modeling, how we can convey para- and non-linguistic information in speech synthesis, and prosody control in speech synthesis (including prosody conversions). A high level of quality has already been achieved in speech synthesis by using selection-based methods with segments of human speech. Although the method enables synthetic speech with various voice qualities and speaking styles, it requires large speech corpora with targeted quality and style. Accordingly, speech conversion techniques are now of growing interest among researchers. HMM/GMM-based methods are widely used, but entail several major problems when viewed from the prosody perspective; prosodic features cover a wider time span than segmental features and their frame-by-frame processing is not always appropriate. The book offers a good overview of state-of-the-art studies on prosody in speech synthesis.

Author : Reijo Aulanko
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Baltic-Finnic languages
ISBN : 3631595522

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Nordic Prosody by Reijo Aulanko Pdf

This volume contains the revised texts of talks and posters given at the Nordic Prosody X conference, held at the University of Helsinki, in August 2008. The contributions by Scandinavian and other researchers cover a wide range of prosody-related topics from various theoretical and methodological points of view. Although the history of the conference series is Nordic and Scandinavian, the current volume presents studies that are of mainly Baltic origin in the sense that of the eight languages presented in the proceedings only English is not natively spoken around the Baltic Sea. Research issues addressed in the 25 articles include various aspects of speech prosody, their regional variation within and across languages as well as social and idiolectal variation. Speech technology and modelling of prosody are also addressed in more than one article.

Author : Carlos Gussenhoven,Professor of General and Experimental Phonology Carlos Gussenhoven,Aoju Chen,Professor of Language Development in Relation to Socialisation and Identity Aoju Chen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780198832232

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The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody by Carlos Gussenhoven,Professor of General and Experimental Phonology Carlos Gussenhoven,Aoju Chen,Professor of Language Development in Relation to Socialisation and Identity Aoju Chen Pdf

This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.

Author : Yoshinori Sagisaka,Nick Campbell,Norio Higuchi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461222583

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Computing PROSODY by Yoshinori Sagisaka,Nick Campbell,Norio Higuchi Pdf

This book presents a collection of papers from the Spring 1995 Work shop on Computational Approaches to Processing the Prosody of Spon taneous Speech, hosted by the ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Re search Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan. The workshop brought together lead ing researchers in the fields of speech and signal processing, electrical en gineering, psychology, and linguistics, to discuss aspects of spontaneous speech prosody and to suggest approaches to its computational analysis and modelling. The book is divided into four sections. Part I gives an overview and theoretical background to the nature of spontaneous speech, differentiating it from the lab-speech that has been the focus of so many earlier analyses. Part II focuses on the prosodic features of discourse and the structure of the spoken message, Part ilIon the generation and modelling of prosody for computer speech synthesis. Part IV discusses how prosodic information can be used in the context of automatic speech recognition. Each section of the book starts with an invited overview paper to situate the chapters in the context of current research. We feel that this collection of papers offers interesting insights into the scope and nature of the problems concerned with the computational analysis and modelling of real spontaneous speech, and expect that these works will not only form the basis of further developments in each field but also merge to form an integrated computational model of prosody for a better understanding of human processing of the complex interactions of the speech chain.

Author : Jürgen Trouvain,Ulrike Gut
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198751

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Non-Native Prosody by Jürgen Trouvain,Ulrike Gut Pdf

Non-Native Prosody: Phonetic Description and Teaching Practice is a response to the increasing interest in the field of prosody in second language acquisition and teaching. The volume presents an overview of the state of the art in second language prosody learning and teaching and brings together linguistic research on the description and modelling of non-native prosodic structures with L2 teaching methods and practices. The first part comprises descriptions of non-native prosodic structures (including intonation, stress and speech rhythm) as well as methodological considerations of research in second language acquisition written by experts in the field. These overviews of current theoretical models and results from empirical studies are presented in a format accessible to language teachers. In the second part, some of the leading teaching practitioners and developers of phonological learning materials present a variety of methods and exercises in the area of prosody. The accompanying audio examples make a useful addition illustrating the descriptions and exercises for various target and source languages. They could be found under "additional material" on this webpage (previously on the CD sold with the book).

Author : Leena Mary
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1461411599

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Extraction and Representation of Prosody for Speaker, Speech and Language Recognition by Leena Mary Pdf

Extraction and Representation of Prosodic Features for Speech Processing Applications deals with prosody from speech processing point of view with topics including: The significance of prosody for speech processing applications Why prosody need to be incorporated in speech processing applications Different methods for extraction and representation of prosody for applications such as speech synthesis, speaker recognition, language recognition and speech recognition This book is for researchers and students at the graduate level.

Author : Okim Kang,David O. Johnson,Alyssa Kermad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000435603

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Second Language Prosody and Computer Modeling by Okim Kang,David O. Johnson,Alyssa Kermad Pdf

This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of second language prosody and computer modeling. It addresses the importance of prosody’s role in communication, bridging the gap between applied linguistics and computer science. The book illustrates the growing importance of the relationship between automated speech recognition systems and language learning assessment in light of new technologies and showcases how the study of prosody in this context in particular can offer innovative insights into the computerized process of natural discourse. The book offers detailed accounts of different methods of analysis and computer models used and demonstrates how these models can be applied to L2 discourse analysis toward predicting real-world language use. Kang, Johnson, and Kermad also use these frameworks as a jumping-off point from which to propose new models of second language prosody and future directions for prosodic computer modeling more generally. Making the case for the use of naturalistic data for real-world applications in empirical research, this volume will foster interdisciplinary dialogues across students and researchers in applied linguistics, speech communication, speech science, and computer engineering.

Author : Leena Mary
Publisher : Springer
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319911717

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Extraction of Prosody for Automatic Speaker, Language, Emotion and Speech Recognition by Leena Mary Pdf

This updated book expands upon prosody for recognition applications of speech processing. It includes importance of prosody for speech processing applications; builds on why prosody needs to be incorporated in speech processing applications; and presents methods for extraction and representation of prosody for applications such as speaker recognition, language recognition and speech recognition. The updated book also includes information on the significance of prosody for emotion recognition and various prosody-based approaches for automatic emotion recognition from speech.