Understanding Prosody

Understanding Prosody
Title Understanding Prosody PDF eBook
Author Oliver Niebuhr
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 344
Release 2012-12-06
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110301466

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The volume represents a state-of-the-art snapshot of the research on prosody for phoneticians, linguists and speech technologists. It covers well-known models and languages. How are prosodies linked to speech sounds? What are the relations between prosody and grammar? What does speech perception tell us about prosody, particularly about the constituting elements of intonation and rhythm? The papers of the volume address questions like these with a special focus on how the notion of context-based coding, the knowledge of prosodic functions and the communicative embedding of prosodic elements can advance our understanding of prosody.

Understanding Prosody

Understanding Prosody
Title Understanding Prosody PDF eBook
Author Oliver Niebuhr
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 329
Release 2012
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9783110301250

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The volume represents a state-of-the-art snapshot of the research on prosody for phoneticians, linguists and speech technologists. It covers well-known models and languages. How are prosodies linked to speech sounds? What are the relations between prosody and grammar? What does speech perception tell us about prosody, particularly about the constituting elements of intonation and rhythm? The papers of the volume address questions like these with a special focus on how the notion of context-based coding, the knowledge of prosodic functions and the communicative embedding of prosodic elements can advance our understanding of prosody.

Mathematical Foundations of Speech and Language Processing

Mathematical Foundations of Speech and Language Processing
Title Mathematical Foundations of Speech and Language Processing PDF eBook
Author Mark Johnson
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 292
Release 2012-12-06
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 1441990178

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Speech and language technologies continue to grow in importance as they are used to create natural and efficient interfaces between people and machines, and to automatically transcribe, extract, analyze, and route information from high-volume streams of spoken and written information. The workshops on Mathematical Foundations of Speech Processing and Natural Language Modeling were held in the Fall of 2000 at the University of Minnesota's NSF-sponsored Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, as part of a "Mathematics in Multimedia" year-long program. Each workshop brought together researchers in the respective technologies on the one hand, and mathematicians and statisticians on the other hand, for an intensive week of cross-fertilization. There is a long history of benefit from introducing mathematical techniques and ideas to speech and language technologies. Examples include the source-channel paradigm, hidden Markov models, decision trees, exponential models and formal languages theory. It is likely that new mathematical techniques, or novel applications of existing techniques, will once again prove pivotal for moving the field forward. This volume consists of original contributions presented by participants during the two workshops. Topics include language modeling, prosody, acoustic-phonetic modeling, and statistical methodology.

Understanding Emotions

Understanding Emotions
Title Understanding Emotions PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Elsevier
Pages 523
Release 2006-11-13
Genre Psychology
ISBN 0080466060

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Emotions shape all aspects of our thinking and behavior, particularly when we communicate with others. How does our brain respond to emotions conveyed by picture media, human faces, voices, and written language? How do we integrate this information in social interaction? What goes wrong in the brains of people suffering from emotional disorders? This book reviews modern neuroscientific and psychological research providing answers to these questions. In this volume, leading researchers give comprehensive overviews of the current knowledge on different aspects of emotional perception and the underlying brain mechanisms and highlight outstanding research questions for the future. This book provides essential information for other researchers in the fields of affective and cognitive neuroscience as well as for advanced students.

Pragmatics and Prosody in English Language Teaching

Pragmatics and Prosody in English Language Teaching
Title Pragmatics and Prosody in English Language Teaching PDF eBook
Author Jesús Romero-Trillo
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 253
Release 2012-03-08
Genre Education
ISBN 9400738838

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This volume explores the elusive subject of English prosody—the stress, rhythm and intonation of the language—, and its relevance for English language teaching. Its sharp focus will be especially welcomed by teachers of English to non-native speakers, but also by scholars and researchers interested in Applied Linguistics. The book examines key issues in the development of prosody and delves into the role of intonation in the construction of meaning. The contributions tackle difficult areas of intonation for language learners, providing a theoretical analysis of each stumbling block as well as a practical explanation for teachers and teacher trainers. The numerous issues dealt with in the book include stress and rhythm; tone units and information structure; intonation and pragmatic meaning; tonicity and markedness, etc... The authors have deployed speech analysis software to illustrate their examples as well as to encourage readers to carry out their own computerized prosodic analyses.

Prosody in Speech Understanding Systems

Prosody in Speech Understanding Systems
Title Prosody in Speech Understanding Systems PDF eBook
Author Ralf Kompe
Publisher Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Pages 408
Release 1997-09-10
Genre Computers
ISBN

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This collection of comprehensive reviews describes the present knowledge of the enzyme mechanisms involved in the biodegradation of wood and wood components, cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin by both fungi and bacteria. The extensive knowledge, presented in this volume, was developed in laboratories world-wide over the last few decades and constitutes the foundation for present and future biotechnology in the pulp and paper industry.

The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition

The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition
Title The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition PDF eBook
Author Pilar Prieto
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages 376
Release 2018-05-15
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 902726421X

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Prosodic development is increasingly recognized as a fundamental stepping stone in first language acquisition. Prosodic sensitivity starts developing very early, with newborns becoming attuned to the prosodic properties of the ambient language, and it continues to develop during childhood until early adolescence. In the last decades, a flourishing literature has reported on the varied set of prosodic skills that children acquire and how they interact with other linguistic and cognitive skills. This book compiles a set of seventeen short review chapters from distinguished experts that have contributed significantly to our knowledge about how prosody develops in first language acquisition. The ultimate aim of the book is to offer a complete state of the art on prosodic development that allows the reader to grasp the literature from an interdisciplinary and critical perspective. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, speech therapy, and education.