We propose the Probabilistic YIN (PYIN) algorithm, a modification of the well-known YIN
algorithm for fundamental frequency (F0) estimation. Conventional YIN is a simple yet …

Research has examined persuasive language, but relatively little is known about how
persuasive people are when they attempt to persuade through paralanguage, or acoustic …

There is increasing evidence that many languages encode prosodic focus not only with
phonetic variations in the focused component itself, but also with a reduction of pitch range …

Lab speech has often been described as unnatural, overly clear, over planned, monotonous,
lacking of rich prosody, and devoid of communicative functions, interactions and emotions …

Tone, the use of pitch to provide phonological contrast between morphemes, plays an
integral role in the structures of many languages. This book teaches linguists a tried-and …

The current study is the first technically-principled examination of second language Spanish
intonation as it develops in a study abroad context. As such, it aims to identify patterns of …

This paper reports an experimental investigation of the prosodic encoding of topic and focus
in Mandarin by examining disyllabic subject nouns elicited in four discourse contexts. These …

Prosody refers to all suprasegmental aspects of speech, including pitch, duration, amplitude,
and voice quality, that are used to make lexical and post-lexical contrasts. Tone refers to …

Over the past few years, the field of visual social cognition and face processing has been
dramatically impacted by a series of data-driven studies employing computer-graphics tools …

It is widely assumed that emotions in speech are mainly expressed through prosody,
particularly in terms of intonational contours. However, no theoretical models have been …