Prosodic Phrase in Spoken Czech
Prosodic Phrase in Spoken Czech

Author: Jan Volín

Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press

Published: 2024-07-01

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 8024657988

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The monograph Prosodic Phrase in Spoken Czech provides a missing source of information on a crucial element in the sound structure of the Czech language: the prosodic phrase. The introductory chapters offer a concise lead-in even to non-specialists: they explain the nature and typical approaches to speech prosody and offer an overview of the commonly used hierarchy of prosodic units. The core of the study is based on speech material that was produced with legitimate communicative intents: storytelling, newsreading and poetry reciting. Prosodic phrases in the given material are described in terms of their phonetic structure, acoustic properties, and a specific syntactic issue. Moreover, the perceptual importance of prosodic phrasing is discussed together with a presentation of original perception experiments. A short chapter is dedicated to automatic detection of prosodic breaks by artificial neural networks. Apart from interesting facts about a core unit of prosodic structure, the prosodic phrase, the book can serve as a source of data in designing further experiments with natural language.

Chinese Spoken Language Processing
Chinese Spoken Language Processing

Author: Qiang Huo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-11-30

Total Pages: 825

ISBN-13: 3540496661

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2006, held in Singapore in December 2006, co-located with ICCPOL 2006, the 21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Coverage includes speech science, acoustic modeling for automatic speech recognition, speech data mining, and machine translation of speech.

English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers
English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers

Author: Karin McClellan

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2024-11-15

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9027246475

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Discover the intricate dynamics of L2 prosody with this pioneering study, which examines how advanced learners from Czech, German, and Spanish backgrounds engage with British and American English intonation. By employing a multidimensional approach - spanning phonetic, phonological, discourse-pragmatic, and sociolinguistic perspectives - this book provides a comprehensive overview of L2 prosodic features, highlighting patterns of intonational phrasing, f0 range, and the use of tones and uptalk. Building on foundational works by Pierrehumbert, Mennen, and Gut, this work bridges significant gaps in the field by comparing different L1 and L2 varieties, integrating diverse linguistic variables, and proposing a multifactorial model of L2 prosody. Relevant for linguists, language educators, and researchers in SLA, the findings offer valuable insights for reducing foreign accents and enhancing intelligibility, making it an essential resource for improving language teaching methodologies and learner outcomes. Dive into this essential guide and elevate your understanding of L2 prosody and its impact on effective communication.

Text, Speech and Dialogue
Text, Speech and Dialogue

Author: Petr Sojka

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-09-04

Total Pages: 663

ISBN-13: 3540873902

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2008, held in Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-12, 2008. The 79 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 173 submissions. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, text corpora and tagging; transcription problems in spoken corpora; sense disambiguation; links between text and speech oriented systems; parsing issues; parsing problems in spoken texts; multi-lingual issues; multi-lingual dialogue systems; information retrieval and information extraction; text/topic summarization; machine translation; semantic networks and ontologies; semantic web; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition; search in speech for IR and IE; text-to-speech synthesis; dialogue systems; development of dialogue strategies; prosody in dialogues; emotions and personality modeling; user modeling; knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems; assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue; applied systems and software; facial animation; and visual speech synthesis

Text, Speech and Dialogue
Text, Speech and Dialogue

Author: Václav Matoušek

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-08-19

Total Pages: 679

ISBN-13: 3540746285

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2007, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, in September 2007. The 80 revised full papers presented in this volume cover a wealth of state-of-the-art research results in the field of natural language processing with an emphasis on text, speech, and spoken dialogue ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in various fields.

Text, Speech and Dialogue
Text, Speech and Dialogue

Author: Vaclav Matousek

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-07-31

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 3540482393

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD'99, held in Plzen, Czech Republic in September 1999. The 57 revised full papers and 19 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The book presents state-of-the-art research and technology in the field of natural language processing with emphasis on text, speech, and spoken dialogue.

Turn Initiating Elements in Everyday Conversations
Turn Initiating Elements in Everyday Conversations

Author: Peter Kosta

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-08-08

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1498588050

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This book focuses on conversation analysis in Czech, including the prosody-syntax-interface and online-syntax in real time that deals with turn initiating elements in everyday conversations. By combining a pragmatic formal theory with a formal syntax model, this book serves as a guide to the problems of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of spoken everyday talk and as a handbook on conversational analysis.

The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody
The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody

Author: Carlos Gussenhoven

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2021-01-07

Total Pages: 957

ISBN-13: 0198832230

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This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.