This chapter contains a general introduction to the concepts of prosody, described primarily
from a phenomenological point of view. Definitions of prosody are discussed, descriptions of …

The study of prosody is perhaps the area of speech research which has undergone the most
noticeable development during the past ten to fifteen years. As an indication of this, one can …

Interest in the contribution prosodic information makes to human communication has led to
increasing expectations that such information could be of use in text-to-speech and speech …

The word 'prosody'comes from ancient Greek, where it was used for a “song sung with
instrumental music”. In later times the word was used for the “science of versification” and …

Prosody has been defined as the “grouping and relative prominence of the elements making
up the speech signal”(Pierrehumbert, 1999). That is, prosody serves both a grouping …

Prosody is an umbrella term used to cover a variety of interconnected and interacting
phenomena, namely stress, rhythm, phrasing, and intonation. The phonetic expression of …

The place of prosody in language is, as the introduction to the present volume recounts, one
of the most regularly disputed topics in linguistics. The question at issue is: must prosody be …

Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure presents an overall view of the nature of prosodic
features of language-accent, stress, rhythm, tone, pitch, and intonation-and shows how …

The present communication concerns the use of prosodic parameters in automatic speech
recognition (ASR), ie the feasibility of automatically extracting prosodic information from a …

Two roles that prosodic variables might play in the perception of speech are reviewed and
two experiments described. Prosody is seen on the one hand as helping to direct attention to …