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Word prosody II: Tone systems [PDF]
UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Reports, 2017 Word prosody II: Tone ...
Hyman, Larry M., Leben, William R.
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How prosody improves word recognition
Speech Prosody 2004, 2004 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 ...
Ken Chen, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
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Prosody leaks into the memories of words [PDF]
Cognition, 2021 41 pages, 1 ...
Kevin Tang, Jason Anthony Shaw
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Prosody resources and symbolic prosodic features for automated phrase break prediction [PDF]
, 2011 It is universally recognised that humans process speech and language in chunks, each meaningful in itself. Any two renditions or assimilations of a given sentence will exhibit similarities and discrepancies in chunking, where speakers and readers use ...
Brierley, Claire
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Prosody and Spoken-Word Recognition [PDF]
, 2020 This chapter outlines a Bayesian model of spoken-word recognition and reviews how prosody is part of that model. The review focuses on the information that assists the listener in recognizing the prosodic structure of an utterance and on how spoken-word recognition is also constrained by prior knowledge about prosodic structure.
McQueen, J., Dilley, L.
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The word-level prosody of Samoan [PDF]
Phonology, 2014 This paper documents and analyses stress and vowel length in Samoan words. The domain of footing, the Prosodic Word, appears to be a root and cohering suffixes; prefixes and most disyllabic suffixes form a separate domain. Vowel sequences that disrupt the normal stress pattern require constraints matching sonority prominence to metrical prominence ...
Zuraw, Kie +2 more
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Semantic Prosody in Literary Analysis: A Corpus‐based Stylistic Study of H. P. Lovecraft’s stories [PDF]
This thesis is a bottom‐up corpus stylistic exploration of the text world of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories that focuses on the emergence of semantic prosodies via keywords in context, collocation and n‐grams.
Spencer, Hannah
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Punctuation-generation-inspired linguistic features for Mandarin prosody generation
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2019 This paper proposes two novel linguistic features extracted from text input for prosody generation in a Mandarin text-to-speech system. The first feature is the punctuation confidence (PC), which measures the likelihood that a major punctuation mark (MPM)
Chen-Yu Chiang +4 more
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Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1990 In this article some basic notions of word-prosody and, in particular, Basque word-prosody are examined. In section 1, the notions of stress, tone and pitch-accent are briefly reviewed.
José Ignacio Hualde
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2018 In tonal language such as Chinese, lexical tone serves as a phonemic feature in determining word meaning. Meanwhile, it is close to prosody in terms of suprasegmental pitch variations and larynx-based articulation.
Baishen Liang +3 more
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