A hearer's perception of an utterance as sarcastic depends on integration of the heard statement, the discourse context, and the prosody of the utterance, as well as evaluation of the incongruity among these aspects. The effect of prosody in sarcasm comprehension is evident in everyday conversation, but little is known about its underlying mechanism or neural substrates. To elucidate the neural...

This study explores the effect of prosody on the interpretation of temporarily and globally ambiguous sentences in Korean. The head-final and pro-drop nature of Korean can generate both temporary and global ambiguity. Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of prosody on these ambiguous strings. Results showed that prosody can influence the meaning recovered from ambiguous stri...

The brain regions subserving the processing of emotional prosody have been investigated using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) but few studies investigated direct electrical neuronal activity using intracranial recordings in humans. Previous studies have shown the involvement of the amygdala and the orbito-frontal cortex (OFC) in the processing of em...

The brain regions subserving the processing of emotional prosody have been investigated using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) but few studies investigated direct electrical neuronal activity using intracranial recordings in humans. Previous studies have shown the involvement of the amygdala and the orbito-frontal cortex (OFC) in the processing of em...

Among Daniel Hirst’s contributions to speech prosody, this article addresses those concerned with the development of automatic tools for prosodic annotation. One of Daniel’s concerns has been to facilitate the task of phoneticians and linguists involved in developing efficient rules for the analysis and synthesis of speech prosody. This presentation describes some of his innovative and fruitful...

Speech is the most direct and intuitive form of human communication. Speaker uses to emphasize his utterance a set of non-verbal features. It is called prosody. The prosody serves a critical information for the recognition and understanding system. This paper describes an idea to use data warehouse properties for storage of prosody features. The work presented in this paper was supported by the...

The paper proposes a framework for automatic prosody labeling. The labeling involves detection of the location of accented syllables and phrase boundaries, and recognition of pitch accent and boundary tone types. A number of classification models are designed to perform these tasks on the basis of small vectors of acoustic features. The models achieve high accuracy and their performance is comp...

This paper presents two empirical studies that examine the influence of different linguistic aspects on prosody in German. First, we analysed a German corpus with respect to the effect of syntax and information status on prosody. Second, we conducted a listening test which investigated the prosodic realisation of constituents in the German ’Vorfeld’ depending on their information status. The re...