A Integrated Lexicon framework is proposed for combining insights from current separate prosodic research paradigms (language resource creation, experimental psycholinguistics, rules for speech synthesis, sentence search space restriction in speech recognition, prosody in discourse, emotional prosody) in the medium term into work in general and computational linguistics. Three principles for in...

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...

Rapid adaptive camouflage is the primary defense of soft-bodied cuttlefish. Previous studies have shown that cuttlefish body patterns are strongly influenced by visual edges in the substrate. The aim of the present study was to examine how cuttlefish body patterning is differentially controlled by various aspects of edges, including contrast polarity, contrast strength, and the presence or abse...

Repression of translation of oskar and nanos mRNAs prior to their posterior localization in the egg and embryo is essential for body patterning in Drosophila. The Cup protein is now found to have an important role in repression of both mRNAs, and apparently does so in a manner similar to the action of the Xenopus Maskin protein.

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...

In order to understand better the relationship between stress and tonal patterning of prosodic changes in spoken English, this paper examines articulatory and acoustic data of a large number of American English speakers producing prosodic minimal pairs on high and low-front vowels. Articulatory and acoustic measurements (from the x-ray microbeam database, University of Wisconsin) of 45 American...

Recent work has demonstrated that temporal lengthening of articulatory gestures adjacent to an intonational phrase boundary can be interpreted as resulting from a lower underlying gestural stiffness. Magnetometer data from three subjects were examined to determine whether multiple levels of prosodic boundaries can be distinguished in the spatio-temporal patterning of articulation and whether th...

This contribution is focused on temporal aspects of articulatory control during the production of speech. We review a set of computational and experimental results whose focus is on intragestural, transgestural, and intergestural timing properties. The computational results are based on recent developments of the task-dynamic model of gestural patterning. These developments are focused on the s...