This paper describes two approaches to assigning prosodic phrase structure and pauses to text and investigates the impact of errors in the assignments for different granularities of prosodic phrase structure. One approach uses a cascaded combination of models trained separately for prediction of prosodic phrase structure and pauses and the other uses a model trained for the joint prediction tas...

The present study examines perceived prosodic highlights in three genres of fluent continuous Mandarin to test (1) whether prosodic highlights are genre related, (2) how they interact with discourse structure, (3) how they signal information status, (4) whether systematic acoustic patterns could be obtained from speech data analysis, and (5) whether prosodic highlights is layered over to discou...

It is a common assumption that prosodic restrictions on the shape of children’s early productions refer to the prosodic word (cf. [1]). However, empirical research on word structure has focused almost exclusively on simplex words where the morphosyntactic and prosodic word boundaries coincide ([2], [3], [4], [5]). In this paper, we provide new evidence from the acquisition of German complex wor...

This paper highlights on a method that provides a new prosodic feature called ‘ reliability field’ based on a reliability function of the fundamental frequency ( ). The proposed method does not employ any correction process for estimation errors that occur during automatic extraction. By applying this feature as a score function for prosodic analyses like prosodic structure estimation or superp...

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...

Prosodic typology has generally concentrated on those aspects of prosodic representation which are assumed to be represented in the lexicon. It is argued here that non-lexical representation at various levels, underlying phonological, surface phonological and phonetic, can also constitute a basis for prosodic typology. An example is given of a low-level comparison of English and French pitch pa...

The evaluation of Speech Synthesis Coders (SSC) provided in the literature is often informal and results cannot be compared. The COST258 signal generation test array aims to provide a benchmark for testing the ability and performance of SSC in achieving different prosodic modifications. The benchmark consists in performing various prosodic transplantations from a given natural utterance to vari...

The aim of this paper is two folds. First, the paper attempts to investigate prosody and discourse structure in Japanese spontaneous monologues by using the prosodic labels of the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ). The analyses of F0 peak trends and prosodic breaks confirmed previous findings in [1]. Secondly, the paper attempts to evaluate the validity of prosodic labels of the X-JToBI syst...

Introduction It has long been observed that prosody and syntax interact in our spoken language. For example, prosodic modulations such as pausing, final-syllable lengthening, and pitch resets occur reliably at clause and major phrase boundaries, particularly in infant-directed speech (Broen, 1972; Bernstein Ratner, 1986; Fernald et al., 1989; Soderstrom et al., 2008). Proponents of the prosodic...

The use of prosody during verbal communication is pervasive in everyday language and whilst there is a wealth of research examining the prosodic processing of emotional information, much less is known about the prosodic processing of attitudinal information. The current study investigated the online neural processes underlying the prosodic processing of non-verbal emotional and attitudinal comp...