This paper describes the results of an evaluation of PROS-3, a system that assigns prosodic structure to text on the basis of the output of a syntactic parser. In order to evaluate the performance of PROS-3 as such and in combination with a revised algorithm for prosodic phrasing, we compare it to the prosodic structure as assigned by human experts. Also, the results of a perception experiment ...

This article examines the prosodic correlates of focus in Georgian declarative sentences, based on speech production data. Georgian is an intonation language with flexible word order, and it is sensitive to information structure. It is shown in the paper that focus has an impact on duration but does not systematically change the tonal realization of the constituents. Most prosodic correlates of...

This paper presents an experimental study contributing to the issue of prosodysyntax-semantics interaction in child speech. The data from 12 3-4-year-old children acquiring Ukrainian have been analyzed in order to establish main prosodic patterns associated with different semantic types of SVO and SOV sentences. The results show that the children are mostly adult-like in the prosodic realizatio...

This study examines the effects of prosodic boundaries, lexical stress, and phrasal accent on the acoustic realization of stops (/t, d/) in Dutch, with special attention paid to language-specificity in the phonetics-prosody interface. The results obtained from various acoustic measures show systematic phonetic variations in the production of /t d/ as a function of prosodic position, which may b...

Repetitions may occur in human-computer interaction for various reasons; in this paper the constraints on the use of repetitions and their prosodic realization in the communication with a (simulated) automatic speech processing system which is not functioning properly will be analysed. It will be shown that repeats may have certain phonetic and prosodic properties which the respective original ...

Two visual-world experiments investigated whether and how quickly discourse-based expectations about the prosodic realization of spoken words modulate interpretation of acoustic-prosodic cues. Experiment 1 replicated effects of segmental lengthening on activation of onset-embedded words (e.g. pumpkin) using resynthetic manipulation of duration and fundamental frequency (F0). In Experiment 2, th...

A formal prosody model is proposed together with its application in a text-to-speech system. The model is based on a generative grammar of abstract prosodic functionally involved units. This grammar creates for each sentence a structure of immediate prosodic constituents in the form of a tree. Each prosodic word of a sentence is assigned with a description vector by a description function and t...

The present study investigates the effects of prosodic boundary on the acoustic realization of allophonic Mandarin lexical tone creak. Speech of twenty speakers from Mandarin Call Home corpus was analyzed. Results show that stronger creaky voice occurs more often at the end of an utterance than the end of an intermediary phrase, and is least likely to occur phrase medially. The observed creak i...

Foreign accents in second language (L2) production are caused by interference from the phonological system and phonetic realization of the speaker’s first language (L1), including both segmental and prosodic features. This paper examines the intonation structure of Seoul Korean and its realization by American English speakers. Four English speakers of Korean, differing in fluency, and two Korea...