Purpose: This study aimed to identify the nature and extent of receptive and expressive prosodic deficits in children with high-functioning autism (HFA). Method: 31 children with HFA, 72 typically developing controls matched on verbal mental age and 33 adults with normal speech completed the prosody assessment procedure, Profiling Elements of Prosodic Systems in Children (PEPS-C). Results: Chil...

This paper presents an extension to a previous work [1], which used an imitation speech database and a prosodic unit selection algorithm, for improving the naturalness of synthesized speech. The basic approach of the system is to combine a rule-generated prosody with a corpus based prosody module, trying to retain both the robustness of the rule prosody, and the naturalness of the human recorde...

A case study of two fictional characters in two television series investigates American Southern prosody and introduces prosodic analysis into studies of language and media. Using media to investigate prosody is new to both the fields of prosody and media studies. Media representations are built off of assumed shared knowledge between the producer and the viewer (Bubel & Spitz 2006). Thus, the ...

BACKGROUND The recognition of the emotion expressed during conversation relies on the integration of both semantic processing and decoding of emotional prosody. The integration of both types of elements is necessary for social interaction. No study has investigated how these processes are impaired in patients with schizophrenia during the comprehension of an emotional speech. Since patients wit...