Research has shown that corrective information is produced with higher prosodic prominence than non-corrective information. However, it remains unclear how corrective prosody is realized in different communicative settings. We conducted two production experiments to investigate whether interlocutors’ prosodic realization of corrective focus depends on each other’s knowledge state. Participants ...

In this paper, we present an approach that allows a TTSsystem to dictate texts to primary school pupils, while being in conformity with the prosodic features of this speaking style. The approach relies on the elaboration of a preprocessing prosodic module that avoids developing a specific system for a so limited task. The proposal is based on two distinct elements: (i) the results of a prelimin...

Innovating Speech Elicitation Techniques (INSPECT) is a line of research that aims to describe and quantify how different recording methods and materials affect speech production both inside and outside the laboratory. In addition, it aims to find new elicitation techniques or refine established techniques such that they provide a better control over speaking styles and/or target variables, par...

OKAY has been termed ‘a spectacular expression’ and ‘America’s greatest invention.’ This volume offers an in-depth empirical study of the uses that have resulted from its global spread. Focusing on actions interactional practices, it investigates in a variety settings 13 languages. The collected work showcases importance holistic analysis: prosodic realization placement larger sequential multim...

In this paper we discuss the influence of semantically unexpected information on the prosodic realization of contrast. For this purpose, we examine the interplay between unexpectedness and various discourse factors that have been claimed to enhance the accentuation of contrastive information: contrast direction, syntactic status, and discourse distance. We conducted a production experiment in D...

The realization of a particular sentence intonation and its eventual property of congruence depend on the ability of the speaker to analyze the syntactic hierarchy of the material read, integrating the punctuation marks with a rough scanning of text to delimit the main syntactic segments such as NP and VP. In this sense, sentence intonation is predictable if the reading speaker are a good synta...

In this paper we show a significant contrast in the realization of the Minor Phrase-initial rise in Japanese as a function of the XP vs. nonXP status of the syntactic branching structure at the left edge of which the rise is located. Sentences examined consisted of a sequence of lexically unaccented nouns followed by an accented verb. F0 values of both the L and the H edge tones of Minor Phrase...

In this paper we address two important issues in generating spoken language within a multimedia system: the design of a speech generator to facilitate coordination between media, and extensions to the functionality of a written language generation system to produce natural speech output. We demonstrate how a speech generator can produce information that allows for temporal coordination between ...

In this paper, I propose to analyze the prosodic realization of two modalities (declarative and interrogative) through perception study of whispered voice in French. I present results of two modality identification tasks. Results of identification test based on natural stimuli show a good identification rate of the modality. The values of the duration of final syllable seem to be the main acous...

Seventeen speakers of Standard Dutch participated in a production experiment that investigated the effects of focus condition (broad, narrow, corrective focus) on the prosodic realization of nuclear accented words in declarative sentences. It was found that focus has an effect on the duration of onset and coda of the nuclear accented syllable as well as on the timing, scaling, and slope of f0 t...