Expressive English Phrases in Modern British Fiction

Traditions in Modern Korean Women’s Fiction Writing

Historicity of Categories of Fiction: Virginia Woolf’s Concept “Modern Fiction”

This article attempts to construct Woolf’s concept of “modern fiction” in modern context within the two dimensions: fiction’s category and historicity. Firstly, based on the essay “Modern Fiction”, the article aims to construct the connotation of “modern fiction”, which takes “historical consciousness”, “the duration of life”, “man’s subjectivity”, “the complexity of psychological structures” a...

War and Space in English Fiction

Evaluating expressive speech synthesis from audiobooks in conversational phrases

CNGL, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland {eva.szekely|mohamed.abou-zleikha}@ucdconnect.ie, {joao.cabral|peter.cahill|julie.berndsen}@ucd.ie Abstract Audiobooks are a rich resource of large quantities of natural sounding, highly expressive speech. In our previous research we have shown that it is possible to detect different expressive voice sty...

Uptalk in Southern British English

The present study deals with the realization and function of uptalk in Southern British English (SBE), a variety in which the use of uptalk has been little investigated. Eight speakers (4 male, 4 female) were recorded while taking part in a Map Task and playing a board game. All speakers used uptalk for a variety of functions, but mostly for declaratives particularly to indicate floor holding b...