Speech prosody, the melodic and rhythmic properties of a language, plays a critical role in
our everyday communication. Researchers have identified unique patterns of prosody that …

This paper investigates the use of multidistribution deep neural networks (DNNs) for
mispronunciation detection and diagnosis (MDD), to circumvent the difficulties encountered …

This paper presents a systematic comparison of various measures of f0 range in female
speakers of English and German. F0 range was analyzed along two dimensions, level (ie …

The present study investigated the perception of phrase-level prosodic prominence in
American English, using the Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT) task. We had two basic …

Understanding the role of prosody in encoding linguistic meaning and in sha** phonetic
form requires the analysis of prosodically annotated speech drawn from a wide variety of …

Intonation Units Revisited. Cesuras in talk-in-interaction Page 1 Intonation Units Revisited
Cesuras in talk-in-interaction John Benjamins Publishing Company Dagmar Barth-Weingarten …

This study investigates how epistemic stance is encoded and perceived in face-to-face
communication when language is regarded as comprised by speech and gesture. Two …

This study is concerned with the identifiability of intonational phrase boundaries across
familiar and unfamiliar languages. Four annotators segmented a corpus of more than three …

In this dissertation I report on an ethnographic survey study undertaken on bi-/multilingual
education in ten primary schools in Uganda. The primary aim of this study was to explore …

Variability has been one of the major challenges for both theoretical understanding and
computer synthesis of speech prosody. In this paper we show that economical …