Language and Speech articles from September 2006

Language and Speech archives from September 2006

Rhythmic characteristics of colloquial and formal Tamil.
September 1, 2006... Abstract Application of recently developed rhythmic measures to passages of read speech in colloquial and formal Tamil revealed some significant differences between the two varieties, which are in diglossic distribution. Both were also...

Spontaneous speech events in two speech databases of human-computer and human-human dialogs in Spanish.
September 1, 2006... Abstract Previous works in English have revealed that disfluencies follow regular patterns and that incorporating them into the language model of a speech recognizer leads to lower perplexities and sometimes to a better performance....

Finding referents in time: eye-tracking evidence for the role of contrastive accents.
September 1, 2006... Abstract In two eye-tracking experiments the role of contrastive pitch accents during the on-line determination of referents was examined. In both experiments, German listeners looked earlier at the picture of a referent belonging to a...

Within-word prosodic constraint on coarticulation in Japanese.
September 1, 2006... Abstract The present study addresses the question of how within-word prosodic constituent boundaries constrain V-to-V coarticulation in Japanese. The smallest prosodic unit that might affect V-to-V coarticulation is the bimoraic foot. The...