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Prosody as an argument for a layered left periphery [PDF]
, 2017 Van Heuven and Haan’s (2000, 2002) experimental work on the prosody of Dutch question types found that the prosodic signalling of interrogativity is stronger for declarative questions, less so for yes/no-questions and even less so for wh-questions.
De Clercq, Karen
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Speech intelligibility and prosody production in children with cochlear implants [PDF]
, 2012 Objectives—The purpose of the current study was to examine the relation between speech intelligibility and prosody production in children who use cochlear implants.
Bergeson, Tonya R. +2 more
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Recognizing Uncertainty in Speech [PDF]
, 2010 We address the problem of inferring a speaker's level of certainty based on prosodic information in the speech signal, which has application in speech-based dialogue systems.
Pon-Barry, Heather, Shieber, Stuart M.
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Prosody, polyphony and politeness: A polyphonic approach to prosodic configurations common to French and Spanish [PDF]
, 2014 From a theoretical perspective based on the Theory of Argumentation in Language (Théorie de l’Argumentation dans la Langue – TAL) and the Theory of Polyphony (Théorie de la Polyphonie Énonciative – TPE), the present study describes and analyses ...
Caldiz, Adriana Mabel +1 more
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Generating expressive speech for storytelling applications [PDF]
, 2006 Work on expressive speech synthesis has long focused on the expression of basic emotions. In recent years, however, interest in other expressive styles has been increasing.
Bailly, G. +8 more
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Rhythm in the speech of a person with right hemisphere damage: Applying the pairwise variability index [PDF]
, 2007 Although several aspects of prosody have been studied in speakers with right hemisphere damage (RHD), rhythm remains largely uninvestigated. This study compares the rhythm of an Australian English speaker with right hemisphere damage (due to a stroke ...
Abercrombie D +30 more
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Cracking the social code of speech prosody using reverse correlation [PDF]
, 2018 Human listeners excel at forming high-level social representations about each other, even from the briefest of utterances. In particular, pitch is widely recognized as the auditory dimension that conveys most of the information about a speaker's traits ...
Aucouturier, Jean-Julien +3 more
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Feature extraction based on bio-inspired model for robust emotion recognition [PDF]
, 2016 Emotional state identification is an important issue to achieve more natural speech interactive systems. Ideally, these systems should also be able to work in real environments in which generally exist some kind of noise.
A Batliner +33 more
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Intonation and discourse : biased questions [PDF]
, 2008 This paper surveys a range of constructions in which prosody affects discourse function and discourse structure.We discuss English tag questions, negative polar questions, and what we call “focus” questions.
Asher, Nicholas, Reese, Brian
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Data-driven Extraction of Intonation Contour Classes [PDF]
, 2007 In this paper we introduce the first steps towards a new datadriven method for extraction of intonation events that does not require any prerequisite prosodic labelling.
Reichel, Uwe D.
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