The ability to understand and manage social signals of a person we are communicating with
is the core of social intelligence. Social intelligence is a facet of human intelligence that has …

Research on prosody has recently become an important focus in various disciplines,
including Linguistics, Psychology, and Computer Science. This article reviews recent …

Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal
pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language …

How do hearers manage to understand speakers? And how do speakers manage to shape
hearers' understanding? Lepore and Stone show that standard views about the workings of …

The term TOBI has come to be used in two different ways. Originally, it was the name of an
annotation system, developed in the period 1991 to 1994, which was designed for use in …

Earlier work on the glottalization of word-initial vowels sought an account in terms of the
morphosyntactic hierarchy and isolated facts about stress, without accounting for the …

One of the core components of language is referring, which requires the speaker to choose
between expressions that are highly explicit (eg, the UNC professor, or Peter), and reduced …

The present study investigates how focus is phonetically realized in declarative sentences in
American English. The goal is to test the hypotheses that,(a) focus is manifested in parallel …

Speech produced by two speakers was manually segmented, generating two databases
with 18,000 and 6,000 vowel segments. The effects on vowel duration of several contextual …

In natural speech, durations of phonetic segments are strongly dependent on contextual
factors. For synthetic speech to sound natural, the module for computing segmental duration …