'Uptalk'is commonly used to refer to rising intonation at the end of declarative sentences, or
(to put it more simply) the tendency for people to make statements that sound like questions …

Speech prosody, the melodic and rhythmic properties of a language, plays a critical role in
our everyday communication. Researchers have identified unique patterns of prosody that …

Neurolinguistic theories are challenged by the amodal abstract representations assumed by
linguists. Embodied linguistics offers a conceptualization of the relationship between …

We tested whether adult listeners can simultaneously keep track of variations in pitch and
syllable duration in order to segment continuous speech into phrases and group these …

Understanding the role of prosody in encoding linguistic meaning and in shaping phonetic
form requires the analysis of prosodically annotated speech drawn from a wide variety of …

Spoken language is hierarchically structured into prosodic units divided by prosodic breaks.
The largest prosodic breaks in an utterance are intonational phrase boundaries (IPBs) …

This study investigates prosodic phrasing of bracketed lists in German. We analyze variation
in pauses, phrase-final lengthening and f0 in speech production and how these cues affect …

In everyday life, speech is accompanied by gestures. In the present study, two experiments
tested the possibility that spontaneous gestures accompanying speech carry prosodic …

The perception of prosodic prominence is thought to be influenced by multiple competing
factors. Three experiments tested the effects of phonological salience, discourse context and …

The challenge of prosodic annotation is reflected in commonly reported variability among
trained annotators in the assignment of prosodic labels. The present study examines …