The present study explored the effect of speaker prosody on the representation of words in memory. To this end, participants were presented with a series of words and asked to remember the words for a subsequent recognition test. During study, words were presented auditorily with an emotional or neutral prosody, whereas during test, words were presented visually. Recognition performance was com...

Most of the prosody perception tests do not capture how listeners perceive and interpret stress, tone, intonation in process listening comprehension. The current study developed English Prosodic Phonology Processing Test (EPPPT). A sample 240 Luo speaking high school students were tested using Confirmatory Factory Analysis (CFA) a multi-trait multimethod matrix. Four traits measured including w...

Background Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) exhibit deficits in recognizing and expressing vocal emotional prosody. The aim of this study was to explore emotional prosody processing in patients with PD shortly after subthalamic nucleus (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS). Methods Two groups of patients with PD (pre-DBS and post-DBS) and one healthy control (HC) group were recruited as pa...

Prosody refers to the melodic and rhythmic aspects of speech. Two forms of prosody are typically distinguished: 'affective prosody' refers to the expression of emotion in speech, whereas 'linguistic prosody' relates to the intonation of sentences, including the specification of focus within sentences and stress within polysyllabic words. While these two processes are united by their use of voca...

Prosody describes both form and function of a sentence using the suprasegmental features of speech. Prosody phenomena are explored in the domain of higher phonological constituents such as word, phonological phrase and intonational phrase. The study of prosody at the word level is called word prosody and above word level is called sentence prosody. Word Prosody describes stress pattern by compa...

Prosody has been traditionally regarded as useless for word recognition. In this paper, we provide a schematic view describing how prosody can help word recognition. We provide our view in terms of a Bayesian network that models the stochastic dependence among acoustic observation, word, prosody, syntax and meaning, and an information-theoretic analysis proving that the mutual information betwe...

one of the interesting topics on multimedia domain is concerned with empowering computer in order to speech production. speech synthesis is granting human abilities to the computer for speech production. data-based approach and process-based approach are the two main approaches on speech synthesis. each approach has its varied challenges. unit-selection speech synthesis and statistical parametr...

When we speak, can vary how use our voices. Our speech be high or low (pitch), loud soft (loudness), and fast slow (duration). This variation in pitch, loudness, duration is called prosody. It a bit like making music. Varying voices when speak express sarcasm emotion even change the meaning of what are saying. So, prosody crucial part spoken language. But do speakers produce prosody? How listen...