analysis of the internal music in sahifeh sajjadiyyeh hasan khalaf * marziye abad ** seyed hosseyn seyedi *** balasem mohseni **** abstract considering the fact that music is not just specific to poetry but it exists in all literary works, whether poetry or prose, this study attempts to examine the inner function of the music in the sahifah sajadieh. external music is related to the prosodic rh...

In this paper we present evidence that speech produced spontaneously in a conversation is considered more natural than read prompts. We also explore the relationship between participants’ expectations of the speech style under evaluation and their actual ratings. In successive listening tests subjects rated the naturalness of either spontaneously produced, read aloud or written sentences, with ...

To successfully acquire language, infants must be able to track multiple levels of regularities in the input. In many cases, regularities only emerge after some learning has already occurred. For example, the grammatical relationships between words are only evident once the words have been segmented from continuous speech. To ask whether infants can engage in this type of learning process, 12-m...

A substantial body of empirical work suggests people have a reliable tendency to match, amongst other things, their conversational partner’s body movements, speech style, and patterns of language use (Giles, Coupland and Coupland, 1991). Recently, a more specific ‘structural priming’ version of this claim has gained prominence (e.g. Pickering and Ferreira, 2008). Structural priming occurs when ...

The ability to perceive similarities between musical notes one octave apart has been documented in all ages including infants. Whether the octave relationship as an aspect of similarity in speech stimuli is as robust in speech tokens is unknown. The purpose of this study was to examine whether children demonstrate an awareness of this octave relationship in the production of speech stimuli duri...

In this work, we present an approach for multilingual portability of Spoken Language Understanding systems. The goal of this approach is to avoid the effort of acquiring and labeling new corpora to learn models when changing the language. The work presented in this paper is focused on the learning of a specific translator for the task and the mechanism of transmitting the information among the ...