Research on the exploitation of prosodic information in the comprehension of spoken
language is reviewed. The research falls into three main areas: the use of prosody in the …

In this paper we draw on a linguistic model of prosodic structure and a task-dynamic model
of speech gestures to account for the interplay of coarticulation and stress in English. We …

Obtaining large, human labelled speech datasets to train models for emotion recognition is a
notoriously challenging task, hindered by annotation cost and label ambiguity. In this work …

In this paper it is shown that at the edges of prosodic domains, initial consonant and final
vowels have more extreme (less reduced) lingual articulations, which are called articulatory …

Recent studies of vocal development in infants have shed new light on old questions of how
the speech capacity is founded and how it may have evolved in the human species …

This is a classic edition of Geoffrey Beattie's and Andrew Ellis' influential introduction to the
psychology of human language and communication, now including a new reflective …

This work is an investigation of the relation between prosodic structure, intonational structure
and (some instances of) focus realisation in European Portuguese (EP). The prosodic …

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 …

A central question in psycholinguistic research is how listeners isolate words from
connected speech despite the paucity of clear word-boundary cues in the signal. A large …

English Speech Rhythm Page 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company English Speech Rhythm
Form and function in everyday verbal interaction Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen Page 2 ENGLISH …