Prosody refers to the melodic and rhythmic aspects of speech. Two forms of prosody are
typically distinguished:'affective prosody'refers to the expression of emotion in speech …

Spoken language is characterized by an enormous amount of variability in how linguistic
segments are realized. In order to investigate how speech perceptual processes …

A remarkable example of Spanish-Italian contact is the Spanish variety spoken in Buenos
Aires (Porteño), which is said to be prosodically “Italianized” due to migration-induced …

This paper presents an accented text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis framework with limited
training data. We study two aspects concerning accent rendering: phonetic (phoneme …

This study reports an exploratory analysis of the age of arrival (AoA) effect on the production
of second language (L2) prosody. Three groups of Mandarin-speaking immigrants (N= 10 in …

The current study is the first technically-principled examination of second language Spanish
intonation as it develops in a study abroad context. As such, it aims to identify patterns of …

The current study sought to determine the relative contributions of suprasegmental and
segmental features to the perception of foreign accent and intelligibility in both first language …

This study examines how listener judgments of second language speech relate to individual
differences in listeners' phonological memory, attention control, and musical ability. Sixty …

Mastering the pronunciation of a second language (L2) is considered extremely difficult, and
few individuals succeed in sounding like a native speaker when learning a L2 in adulthood …

We investigated the independent contribution of speech rate and speech rhythm to
perceived foreign accent. To address this issue we used a resynthesis technique that allows …