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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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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This study presents a multimodal characterization method for a prototype metamaterial model structure that features four distinct states of mechanical stiffness and electrical resistivity. Through simulations and experiments, it uncovers insights into the structural behavior, the correlation between changes in electrical resistivity and mechanical ...
Rebecca Kose +3 more
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Cocaine users manifest impaired prosodic and cross-modal emotion processing
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2013 Background: A small number of previous studies have provided evidence that cocaine users exhibit impairments in complex social cognition tasks, while the more basic facial emotion recognition is widely unaffected. However, prosody and cross-modal emotion
Lea M Hulka +4 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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Prosody and lemma selection [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 2005 In three picture-naming experiments, we examined the effect of prosodic context on the synonyms people use to name pictures in Mandarin Chinese. This was done without time pressure. The results showed that when monosyllabic and Disyllabic synonyms (e.g., hen/chicken) were embedded in a context of pictures with either bisyllabic or trisyllabic names ...
Perry, Conrad, Zhuang, Jie
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.In this study, the interplay of dipolar dynamics and ionic charge transport in MOF compounds is investigated. Synthesizing the novel structure CFA‐25 with integrated freely rotating dipolar groups, local and macroscopic effects, including interactions with Cs cations are explored.
Ralph Freund +6 more
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Common premotor regions for the perception and production of prosody and correlations with empathy and prosodic ability. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Prosody, the melody and intonation of speech, involves the rhythm, rate, pitch and voice quality to relay linguistic and emotional information from one individual to another. A significant component of human social communication depends upon interpreting
Lisa Aziz-Zadeh +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 While it is well known that prosodic features are central in the conveyance of pragmatic meaning across languages, developmental research has assessed a narrow set of pragmatic functions of prosody.
Mariia Pronina +6 more
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Assessing the Prosody of Non-Native Speakers of English: Measures and Feature Sets [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper, we describe a new database with audio recordings of non-native (L2) speakers of English, and the perceptual evaluation experiment conducted with native English speakers for assessing the prosody of each recording.
Batliner, A +6 more
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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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