A Model Of Sonority Based On Pitch Intelligibility
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A Model Of Sonority Based On Pitch Intelligibility
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Author : Aviad Albert
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-05-12
A Model Of Sonority Based On Pitch Intelligibility written by Aviad Albert and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Sonority is a central notion in phonetics and phonology and it is essential for generalizations related to syllabic organization. However, to date there is no clear consensus on the phonetic basis of sonority, neither in perception nor in production. The widely used Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) represents the speech signal as a sequence of discrete units, where phonological processes are modeled as symbol manipulating rules that lack a temporal dimension and are devoid of inherent links to perceptual, motoric or cognitive processes. The current work aims to change this by outlining a novel approach for the extraction of continuous entities from acoustic space in order to model dynamic aspects of phonological perception. It is used here to advance a functional understanding of sonority as a universal aspect of prosody that requires pitch-bearing syllables as the building blocks of speech. This book argues that sonority is best understood as a measurement of pitch intelligibility in perception, which is closely linked to periodic energy in acoustics. It presents a novel principle for sonority-based determinations of well-formedness – the Nucleus Attraction Principle (NAP). Two complementary NAP models independently account for symbolic and continuous representations and they mostly outperform SSP-based models, demonstrated here with experimental perception studies and with a corpus study of Modern Hebrew nouns. This work also includes a description of ProPer (Prosodic Analysis with Periodic Energy). The ProPer toolbox further exploits the proposal that periodic energy reflects sonority in order to cover major topics in prosodic research, such as prominence, intonation and speech rate. The book is finally concluded with brief discussions on selected topics: (i) the phonotactic division of labor with respect to /s/-stop clusters; (ii) the debate about the universality of sonority; and (iii) the fate of the classic phonetics–phonology dichotomy as it relates to continuity and dynamics in phonology.
A Model Of Sonority Based On Pitch Intelligibility
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Author : Aviad Albert
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2023-06-10
A Model Of Sonority Based On Pitch Intelligibility written by Aviad Albert and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Sonority is a central notion in phonetics and phonology and it is essential for generalizations related to syllabic organization. However, to date there is no clear consensus on the phonetic basis of sonority, neither in perception nor in production. The widely used Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) represents the speech signal as a sequence of discrete units, where phonological processes are modeled as symbol manipulating rules that lack a temporal dimension and are devoid of inherent links to perceptual, motoric or cognitive processes. The current work aims to change this by outlining a novel approach for the extraction of continuous entities from acoustic space in order to model dynamic aspects of phonological perception. It is used here to advance a functional understanding of sonority as a universal aspect of prosody that requires pitch-bearing syllables as the building blocks of speech.This book argues that sonority is best understood as a measurement of pitch intelligibility in perception, which is closely linked to periodic energy in acoustics. It presents a novel principle for sonority-based determinations of well-formedness – the Nucleus Attraction Principle (NAP). Two complementary NAP models independently account for symbolic and continuous representations and they mostly outperform SSP-based models, demonstrated here with experimental perception studies and with a corpus study of Modern Hebrew nouns. This work also includes a description of ProPer (Prosodic Analysis with Periodic Energy). The ProPer toolbox further exploits the proposal that periodic energy reflects sonority in order to cover major topics in prosodic research, such as prominence, intonation and speech rate. The book is finally concluded with brief discussions on selected topics: (i) the phonotactic division of labor with respect to /s/-stop clusters; (ii) the debate about the universality of sonority; and (iii) the fate of the classic phonetics–phonology dichotomy as it relates to continuity and dynamics in phonology.
Word Stress In Prosodic Theory
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Author : Constantijn Kaland
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2025-05-20
Word Stress In Prosodic Theory written by Constantijn Kaland and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is composed of four studies that all investigate different aspects of word stress in Papuan Malay, an Austronesian language spoken in eastern Indonesia. These aspects, in order of presentation, include acoustic realisation, auditory perception, lexical analyses and word disambiguation. The introduction provides the theoretical background against which the studies are undertaken. All studies are empirical in nature; they either report acoustic analyses, production or perception experiments, or corpus-based analyses. Taken together, the results of all studies pose a challenge to maintaining a stressless analysis of Papuan Malay. At the same time, the type of word stress that emerges from the reported results is unlike its common theoretical conception and therefore requires more work to be integrated in prosodic theory. Given the controversy on word stress in Indonesian languages, the results are always discussed and carefully interpreted in a cross-linguistic context. In this way, the current thesis extends and deepens our knowledge and understanding of word stress in prosodic theory.
Conversation And Intonation In Autism A Multi Dimensional Analysis
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Author : Simon Wehrle
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Conversation And Intonation In Autism A Multi Dimensional Analysis written by Simon Wehrle and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book provides an in-depth, multi-dimensional analysis of conversations between autistic adults. The investigation is focussed on intonation style, turn-taking and the use of backchannels, filled pauses and silent pauses. Previous findings on intonation style in the context of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are contradictory, with claims ranging from characteristically monotonous to characteristically melodic intonation. A novel methodology for quantifying intonation style is used, and it is revealed that autistic speakers tended towards a more melodic intonation style compared to control speakers in the data set under investigation. Research on turn-taking (the organisation of who speaks when in conversation) in ASD is limited, with most studies claiming a tendency for longer silent gaps in ASD. No clear overall difference in turn-timing between the ASD and the control group was found in the data under study. There was, however, a clear difference between groups specifically in the earliest stages of dialogue, where ASD dyads produced considerably longer silent gaps than controls. Backchannels (listener signals such as mmhm or okay) have barely been investigated in ASD to date. The current analysis shows that autistic speakers produced fewer backchannels per minute (particularly in the early stages of dialogue), and that backchannels were less diverse prosodically and lexically. Filled pauses (hesitation signals such as uhm and uh) in ASD have been the subject of a handful of previous studies, most of which claim that autistic speakers produced fewer uhm tokens (specifically). It is shown that filled pauses were produced at an identical rate in both groups and that there was an equivalent preference of uhm over uh. ASD speakers differed only in the prosodic realisation of filled pauses. It is further shown that autistic speakers produced more long silent (within-speaker) pauses than controls. The analyses presented in this book provide new insights into conversation strategies and intonation styles in ASD, as reviewed in a summary analysis. The findings are discussed in the context of previous research, general characteristics of cognition in ASD, and the importance of studying communication in interaction and across neurotypes.
Second Language Prosody And Computer Modeling
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Author : Okim Kang
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-09-13
Second Language Prosody And Computer Modeling written by Okim Kang and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of second language prosody and computer modeling. It addresses the importance of prosody’s role in communication, bridging the gap between applied linguistics and computer science. The book illustrates the growing importance of the relationship between automated speech recognition systems and language learning assessment in light of new technologies and showcases how the study of prosody in this context in particular can offer innovative insights into the computerized process of natural discourse. The book offers detailed accounts of different methods of analysis and computer models used and demonstrates how these models can be applied to L2 discourse analysis toward predicting real-world language use. Kang, Johnson, and Kermad also use these frameworks as a jumping-off point from which to propose new models of second language prosody and future directions for prosodic computer modeling more generally. Making the case for the use of naturalistic data for real-world applications in empirical research, this volume will foster interdisciplinary dialogues across students and researchers in applied linguistics, speech communication, speech science, and computer engineering.
The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of Japan E
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of Japan E written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Acoustical engineering categories.
Contains English abstracts of original papers and letters to the editor that appear in the Japanese edition.
Wagner S Lexical Tonality
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Author : Jonathan Christian Petty
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 2005
Wagner S Lexical Tonality written by Jonathan Christian Petty and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Music categories.
The four scores of the Ring dramas are analyzed bar-by-bar to derive a complete linear harmonic analysis-based readout of each of its keys and claimed lexical references. The chapters on Parsif al discuss its mediaeval sources as suggested by Wagner's prose writings, letters, and religious discourse to argue for the Gnostic and alchemist basis of its libretto imagery, lexical tonality, and anti-Semitism.
Communication And Intelligibility
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Author : Lars Lundsten
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Communication And Intelligibility written by Lars Lundsten and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Communication categories.
Linguistics And Language Behavior Abstracts
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Linguistics And Language Behavior Abstracts written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Language and languages categories.
Speech Rhythm In Learner And Second Language Varieties Of English
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Author : Robert Fuchs
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-09-19
Speech Rhythm In Learner And Second Language Varieties Of English written by Robert Fuchs and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book presents cutting-edge research on the production and perception of speech rhythm by speakers of English in countries where it is used as a foreign language or an institutionalised second language (also sometimes known as the Expanding and Outer Circles). It contributes to a better understanding of speech rhythm, which has long been recognised as an important supra-segmental category of speech, focusing on its relevance in World Englishes, Second Language Acquisition and learner varieties of English, as well as the sociolinguistic and perceptual significance of this phonological variable.