There has been substantial progress in understanding the production of individual speech sounds. Much less is known about prosodic aspects of speech production. Lexical stress is the prosodic contrast between strong and weak syllables within single words (compare ‘INcense’ with ‘inCENSE’ in English). The ability to achieve stress contrastivity during speech production shows a protracted develop...

Abstact:The term “stressstrength reliability” when it appears in statistical literature typically refers to the quantityP(X > Y), where a system with random strength X is subjected to a random strength Y such that a system fails, if the stress exceeds the strength. Stress –Strength reliability is considered in this paper where the strength follows finite mixture of two parameter Lindley distrib...

In addition to typological, turn-taking or sociolinguistic factors, presence of creaky voice in spontaneous interaction is also influenced by the syntactic and phonological properties of speech. For example, creaky voice is reportedly more frequent in function words than content words, has been observed to accompany unstressed syllables and ends of phrases, and is associated with relaxation and...

After a short general discussion of ’parallel’ words, we compare the placement of main stress in such words, in Swedish (Stockholm), Danish (Copenhagen) and Norwegian (Ålesund). To be sure, this property coincides in the vast majority (> 95%) of the cases. However, concentrating on the exceptions (about 300 per language pair in our data), we find that although all three languages exhibit late s...

In this study, we used General Health Questionnaire 30 (GHQ30) and voice to evaluate the stress reduction effect of a stress resilience program, and examined the validity of stress evaluation by voice. We divided the subjects who participated in the program into two groups by the number of training sessions. The results showed a stress-reduction effect only in the group with more training sessi...

The profiles of a spreading wetting film are computed taking into account intermolecular forces and introducing a kinetic slip condition at a molecular cut-off distance. This eliminates the stress singularity, so that both “true” and “visible” contact angles are defined unequivocally. The “true” contact angle at the cut-off distance depends on the slip length as well as on the edge propagation ...

In this paper, we explore the use of keyboard strokes as a means to access the real-time writing process of online authors, analogously to prosody in speech analysis, in the context of deception detection. We show that differences in keystroke patterns like editing maneuvers and duration of pauses can help distinguish between truthful and deceptive writing. Empirical results show that incorpora...

This study investigated whether gesturing classes (baby sign) affected parental frustration and stress, as advertised by many commercial products. The participants were 178 mother-infant dyads, divided into a gesture group (n=89) and a non-gesture group (n=89), based on whether they had attended baby sign classes or not. Mothers completed a background demographics questionnaire and the Parentin...

VoiceSauce is a new application, implemented in Matlab, which provides automated voice measurements over audio recordings. VoiceSauce computes many voice measures, including those using corrections for formant frequencies and bandwidths. It outputs values as text or for Emu database, and incorporates output from a separate program for automatic analysis of electroglottographic signals. VoiceSau...