Prosody conveys information about the linguistic context of an utterance at every level of
linguistic organisation, from the word up to the discourse context. Acoustic correlates of …

Abstract We present the Montreal Forced Aligner (MFA), a new opensource system for
speech-text alignment. MFA is an update to the Prosodylab-Aligner, and maintains its key …

Recent years have seen growing interest in the mechanisms that underlie the online
processing of formulaic sequences. The present chapter reviews a bulk of evidence that …

Animals produce vocalizations that range in complexity from a single repeated call to
hundreds of unique vocal elements patterned in sequences unfolding over hours …

Frequent or contextually predictable words are often phonetically reduced, ie shortened and
produced with articulatory undershoot. Explanations for phonetic reduction of predictable …

A novel, data-driven approach to voice activity detection is presented. The approach is
based on Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks trained on standard RASTA …

Abstract The Interspeech 2015 Zero Resource Speech Challenge aims at discovering
subword and word units from raw speech. The challenge provides the first unified and open …

Abstract Language-users reduce words in predictable contexts. Previous research indicates
that reduction may be stored in lexical representation if a word is often reduced. Because …

Twenty years after the publication of a special issue in this journal on non-modal phonation
(JPhon 2001: 49 (4)), the phonetic study of voice quality has shown impressive progress …

Recent research has shown that homophonous lexemes show systematic phonetic
differences (eg Gahl 2008, Drager 2011), with important consequences for models of …