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A constraint-based approach to English prosodic constituents [PDF]

, 2000
The paper develops a constraint-based theory of prosodic phrasing and prominence, based on an HPSG framework, with an implementation in ALE. Prominence and juncture are represented by n-ary branching metrical trees.
Ewan Klein, Klein, E
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Rhythm and feet in Belhare morphology [PDF]

, 1998
In Belhare (Sino-Tibetan, Nepal), consonant prothesis at morpheme boundaries and deletion of stem ‘augments’ is found if either metrical or morphological parsing would violate the bimoraic trochee pattern that underlies the stress system of the language.
Bickel, Balthasar; https://orcid.org/, Bickel, Balthasar   +1 more
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The Ibero-Romance rhotics

Isogloss
The 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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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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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, Bailly, Gérard, Xu, Yi   +2 more
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Weighting of Prosodic and Lexical-Semantic Cues for Emotion Identification in Spectrally Degraded Speech and With Cochlear Implants

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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“Talking heads” in Portuguese sign and spoken languages

Language and Cognition
Head and eyebrow movements have been reported as question markers in both spoken (e.g. Swerts & Krahmer, 2004) and sign languages (e.g., Zeshan, 2004).
Marisa Cruz, Sónia Frota
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Prosody and focus recognition in Spanish

Isogloss
At the interface between information structure and prosody, discourse-pragmatic categories are mapped onto prosodic structures and vice versa. The Focus Prominence Rule (FPR), which stipulates that the nuclear stress must fall within the focus domain ...
Christoph Gabriel, Steffen Heidinger
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Multimodal Human–Robot Interaction Using Human Pose Estimation and Local Large Language Models

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A multimodal human–robot interaction framework integrates human pose estimation (HPE) and a large language model (LLM) for gesture‐ and voice‐based robot control. Speech‐to‐text (STT) enables voice command interpretation, while a safety‐aware arbitration mechanism prioritizes gesture input for rapid intervention.
Nasiru Aboki, Ilche Georgievski, Marco Aiello   +2 more
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Single prosodic phrase sentences [PDF]

, 2008
A series of production and perception experiments investigating the prosody and well-formedness of special sentences, called Wide Focus Partial Fronting (WFPF), which consist of only one prosodic phrase and a unique initial accented argument, are ...
Féry, Caroline, Drenhaus, Heiner
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