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Applied Sciences, 2019 Prosody is a fundamental speech element responsible for communicative functions such as intonation, accent and phrasing, and prosodic impairments of individuals with intellectual disabilities reduce their communication skills.
Mario Corrales-Astorgano +5 more
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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
, 2015 This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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Dutch and English toddlers' use of linguistic cues in predicting upcoming turn transitions
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Adults achieve successful coordination during conversation by using prosodic and lexicosyntactic cues to predict upcoming changes in speakership. We examined the relative weight of these linguistic cues in the prediction of upcoming turn structure by ...
Imme eLammertink +4 more
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Integrating Prosodic and Lexical Cues for Automatic Topic Segmentation [PDF]
, 2000 We present a probabilistic model that uses both prosodic and lexical cues for the automatic segmentation of speech into topically coherent units. We propose two methods for combining lexical and prosodic information using hidden Markov models and ...
Andreas Stolcke +6 more
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Removing micromelody from fundamental frequency contours [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we describe a new method to diminish microprosodic components of fundamental frequency contours by applying weight functions linked to microprosodically classified phone combinations.
Reichel, Uwe D., Winkelmann, Raphael
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Ear & Hearing, 2021 Objectives: Normally-hearing (NH) listeners rely more on prosodic cues than on lexical-semantic cues for emotion perception in speech. In everyday spoken communication, the ability to decipher conflicting information between prosodic and lexical-semantic cues to emotion can be important: for example, in identifying sarcasm or ...
Margaret E, Richter, Monita, Chatterjee
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Estonian word prosody on the Procrustean bed of morae
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 The paper analyses existing moraic conceptions of Estonian quantity. Main features of functional, generative and phonetically-instructed moraic accounts of Estonian are considered.
Natalia Kuznetsova
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Assessing direct contributions of morphological awareness and prosodic sensitivity to children’s word reading and reading comprehension [PDF]
, 2018 We examined the independent contributions of prosodic sensitivity and morphological awareness to word reading, text reading accuracy, and reading comprehension. We did so in a longitudinal study of English-speaking children (N = 70).
Andrew John Holliman +15 more
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IsoglossThe two rhotic consonants of Ibero-Romance languages are characterised by their very specific distribution and by the prosodic weight of one of them. Data has hitherto suggested a geminate-to-single contrast for the pair of rhotics.
Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho
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A Weighted Superposition of Functional Contours Model for Modelling Contextual Prominence of Elementary Prosodic Contours [PDF]
Interspeech 2018, 2018 Accepted for publication at INTERSPEECH ...
Gerazov, Branislav +2 more
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