prosodic boundaries
Perceived Prosodic Boundaries and Their Phonetic Correlates
... PERCEIVED PROSODIC BOUNDARIES AND THEIR PHONETIC CORRELATES PERCEIVED P R O S O D I C B O U N D A R I E S A N D THEIR PHONETIC CORRELATES Renk Collier; Jan R o e l o f de Pijper and A ngelien Sanderma[.] ...
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Temporal markers of prosodic boundaries in children's speech production
... The following observations can be made on the basis of figure 5. Three children – Calum, Kayley and Nicky – were very efficient in their prosodic ability. They are closest to the ‘perfect case’. Most of their ...
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The Parsody System: Automatic Prediction of Prosodic Boundaries for Text to Speech
... THE PARSODY SYSTEM AUTOMATIC PREDICTION OF PROSODIC BOUNDARIES FOR TEXT TO SPEECH T H E P A R S O D Y S Y S T E M A U T O M A T I C P R E D I C T I O N O F P R O S O D I C B O U N D A R I E S F O R T[.] ...
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Learning to Predict Pitch Accents and Prosodic Boundaries in Dutch
... The remainder of this paper has the following structure. In Section 2 we define the task, describe the data, and the feature generation process which involves POS tagging, syntactic chunking, and com- puting several ...
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Annotation of prominent words, prosodic boundaries and segmental lengthening by non-expert transcribers in the Spoken Dutch Corpus
... use prosodic breaks to re-rank n-best lists of an automatic speech recognizer, to run separate models for words that are accented and those that are not, to first chunk a continuous speech stream into smaller ...
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The Role of Prosody and Speech Register in Word Segmentation: A Computational Modelling Perspective
... forward, prosodic cues (e.g. stress, prosodic boundaries) have been shown to be par- ticularly useful in early-stage word segmentation (Christophe et ...
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From Prosodic Trees to Syntactic Trees
... the prosodic structures of the text. It was found that many of the prosodic boundaries in the cantillation trees correspond, directly or indirectly, to the phrase boundaries of the syntactic ...
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Locating Boundaries for Prosodic Constituents in Unrestricted Mandarin Texts
... their experiments only involved making decisions between breaks and non-breaks. However, three levels of prosodic boundaries were detected in this study. Another reason for the drop in overall accuracy is ...
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N Best Rescoring Based on Pitch accent Patterns
... (different prosodic events were modeled separately and combined with conventional ...and prosodic features are more tightly coupled and jointly ...the prosodic knowledge and to combine with ASR ...
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Prosodic boundary information helps unsupervised word segmentation
... of prosodic boundaries ...of prosodic boundaries a previously proposed method which employs only acoustic cues that can be extracted from the speech signal (Ludu- san and Dupoux, ...
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Corpus-based evaluation of prosodic phrase break prediction using nltk_lite’s chunk parser to detect prosodic phrase boundaries in the Aix-MARSEC corpus of spoken English
... intuitive prosodic phrasing to corpus annotations illustrates, first, that major prosodic boundaries (break index 4) are being used and perceived within sentences and not just in sentence-final ...
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A Constraint based Approach to English Prosodic Constituents
... There are numerous directions in which the current work can be extended. In terms of empirical coverage, a more detailed account of weak function words seems highly desirable. The approach can also be tested within the ...
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Prosodic Focus Within and Across Languages
... which prosodic modulation by focus becomes clear and ...clear prosodic marking of focus since those languages with clear prosodic marking of focus showed mixed rhythmic ...clear prosodic ...
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On the Simultaneity of Morphological and Prosodic Structure
... This clearly requires that at the level of lexical insertion the prosodie struc- turing of words up to the word level is already available, and this is exactly what is predicted by our v[r] ...
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Principles and parameters in prosodic phonology
... Not only juncture phenomena are indications of the grammatical structure of an utterance. The rhythmic patterns may also help to sort out the words in an utterance. For instance, in a la[r] ...
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Acoustic Prosodic Entrainment and Social Behavior
... Motivated by such theoretical proposals and em- pirical findings, we hypothesized that entrainment on acoustic/prosodic dimensions such as pitch, in- tensity, voice quality and speaking rate might also be ...
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Density Based Traffic Signal System Using Matlab
... To count the objects present in the image, the close boundaries of the objects are identified. The exterior boundaries of the objects as well as the boundaries of holes inside[r] ...
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Prosodic rhythm and African American English
... The results of our analysis indicate that contemporary African Americans and European Americans do not differ in the degree of stress-timing, at least in North Carolina. As far as the Convergence / Divergence Controversy ...
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'Children are just lingual': The development of phonology in British Sign Language (BSL)
... Brentari’s Prosodic model, segmental elements of the sign (handshapes, movements and locations) need to be coordinated with the overall timing and prosodic pattern of the sign’s start and ...
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