This article presents a discussion of a number of algorithms being developed which will enable the generation of prosodic structure for Swedish restricted texts. These algorithms, including a word-class tagger, a complex-word identifier and a prosodic parser form part of a linguistic preprocessor to a text-to-speech system for generation of intonation. PROSODIC STRUCTURE One of the goals of cur...

This paper investigates how differences in syntactic structure influence the speaker’s prosodic realization of temporarily ambiguous utterances and whether the respective prosodic information guides the listener’s sentence comprehension. Exhaustive acoustic analyses of the speech signals as well as behavioral and event-related brain potential (ERP) data of 56 listeners revealed the following re...

The article aims at contributing to the long-standing research on prosodic organization of linguistic elements and criteria used for identifying structures. Our focus is final coronal nasals in function words Greek variability their patterns realization before lexical words. Certain coalesce stops delete fricatives, whereas others do not. We propose that this split behavior does not pertain ite...

What's up with the printer? Context relative presentation of conceptual structure and its prosodic realization in a language production system.. The papers presented in this issue show some results of current work being performed in the SYNPHONICS * project group. They continue what gradually becomes a tradition: to regularly report in a compact form about the actual research that centers aroun...

Language users benefit from special phonetic tools in order to communicate linguistic information as well as different emotional aspects and paralinguistic information through daily conversation. Having functions in conveying semantic information to listeners, prosodic features form the essential part of linguistic behavour, manipulating  them potentially can play an important role in transmitt...

This study examines the phonetic properties of lexical stress in English produced by Persian speakers learning English as a foreign language. The four most reliable phonetic correlates of English lexical stress, namely fundamental frequency, duration, intensity, and vowel quality were measured across Persian speakers’ production of the stressed and unstressed syllables of five English disyllabi...

This paper presents an acoustic description of the production plain uvular /q/ in speech eight speakers South Bolivian Quechua. While this sound patterns phonologically as a stop, its primary realization is voiced continuant. Variation documented with respect to segmental and prosodic position. Segmentally, continuant most common intervocalically after rhotic, while voiceless comparatively more...

The prosodic realization of focus can vary depending on various factors such as type of focus (e.g., information focus, corrective focus), morphosyntax (whether or not a language has a morpho-syntactic marker of focus), and intonational phonology of language, and thus is language-specific. On one hand, head-prominence languages such as English, German, and Greek, mark prominence through the use...

1 Preliminaries Theories of phonology include an inventory of basic elements, such as segments, tones, stress, features, and gestures, and a model that accounts for their distribution and realization. The phonological context is taken to be organized into higher-order prosodic constituents, which structure and constrain the realization of phonological elements. Moving from elements to their dis...