Intonation, what Bolinger has called the" greasy part of language", is notoriously difficult to
describe. One of the reasons for this elusiveness is of course the essentially spoken …

Among the types of linguistic structure that help to determine patterns of speech production
and perception, prosody stands out as one of the more intractable. Prosody has an …

Of all prosodic variables used to classify languages, rhythm has proved most problematic.
Recent attempts to classify languages based on the relative proportion of vowels or …

This book presents a collection of papers from the Spring 1995 Work shop on Computational
Approaches to Processing the Prosody of Spon taneous Speech, hosted by the ATR …

Gegenstand des Bandes ist der Entwurf eines kognitiv orientierten Modells zur Generierung
und lautsprachlichen Realisierung prosodischer Merkmale und Konstituenten und deren …

For the training and evaluation of stochastic prosodic models a large amount of sample data
is required. Data here means a collection of speech signals which are transliterated, that is …

In recent years a great deal of work has gone into the description of prosodie processes in
language, and two advances that have come out of this work are the frameworks of …

This special issue contains 12 papers, all of which address the interface between prosody
and pragmatics. The aim of the issue is to illustrate the role that prosody can play in the …

In his well-known Manual of Phonology (1955), Charles Hockett writes that the phonological
structure of an utterance is not just a linear sequence of segments but displays a hierarchical …

Theoretical and methodological paradigms in speech research determine the design of data
collection, their analysis and their interpretation. The scientific approaches to spoken …