The thesis presents an account of the design, construction and analysis of a machine-
readable corpus of transcribed spoken Spanish. The corpus was compiled from …

The intonation of Spanish does not appear to have received the same degree of attention as
the Spanish segmental system. Furthermore, much of the information available and the …

Speakers intuitively perceive differences in other speakers' pronunciation when using the
same language. Of course, this ability depends on their familiarity with other language …

The analysis of intonation in Spanish has been handled in the past, on those relatively rare
occasions when anything at all was said about it, in terms of contours.* These were only …

The Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus, 1 collected 1984-1987, is now being used to
raise interesting questions about the spoken language. In many cases this involves going …

This paper presents a general model for the relation between representations of form and
function for speech prosody on a multilingual basis. It outlines a procedure for analysing …

In Huckvale and Fang (1996), we described PROSICE, a corpus of spoken material
specifically designed for the study of the prosody of read English. This corpus uniquely …

1. Background The Spanish language has attracted considerable attention from
phoneticians and phonologists; functional as well as articulatory and acoustic descriptions …

The teaching of prosodic elements of'speech, ie, speech melody (variation in pitch), stress
and rhythm in the field of second language learning is an area which has been, until …

An algorithm is described which abstracts acoustic parameters of a speech waveform to
automatically transcribe sentential stress and pitch movements. The waveform acoustics …