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Showing 1 to 20 of 184 for “"Prosody"”.
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Pro-Black Prosody
This thesis speaks to the triumphs and tragedies of the Black experience. It attempts to look at Blackness through the lens of my combined experiences as a spoken word artist, a student in the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s creative writing program, my tenure as the Poet Laureate of the 18th …
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Prosody and phonology.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, i.e. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1969. Ph.D.
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Prosody in Kichwa
… pragmatic marking offering new insights into how prosody encodes grammatical and communicative functions in underdescribed head-final languages.
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Prosody and recursion
… to prosodic representations. I argue that the prosody of an expression, just like its meaning, is determined compositionally, as originally proposed in Chomsky et al. (1957), Chomsky and Halle (1968). Syntactic structure are cyclically spelled out and assigned a semantic and phonological …
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Computational Approaches to the Syntax–Prosody Interface: Using Prosody to Improve Parsing
<p>Prosody has strong ties with syntax, since prosody can be used to resolve some syntactic ambiguities. Syntactic ambiguities have been shown to negatively impact automatic syntactic parsing, hence there is reason to believe that prosodic information can help improve parsing. This dissertation …
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Semantic prosody in Thai
Semantic prosody is an important concept and has become a primary research interest in corpus linguistics. This thesis undertakes the groundwork of fundamental research into semantic prosody in Thai, a language which has not been subject to studies of semantic prosody before, to set out the …
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Prosody and syntactic processing
… examines whether and how two main aspects of prosody, intonational phrase boundaries and pitch accents, are used in syntactic processing. Traditionally, it has been argued that while intonational phrase boundaries interact with syntactic structure, pitch accents do not. One apparent exception …
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The computation of prosody
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1992.
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Givenness, focus, and prosody
In this dissertation, I investigate the grammatical effects of focus and the inseparable phenomenon of givenness. As Schwarzschild (1999) has proposed, a proper understanding of givenness eliminates the need for a separate concept of focus, which is notoriously hard to define, either semantically, …
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Syntax and Prosody of Coordination
… which studies the mapping from syntax and prosody, I put ellipsis in the spotlight, and ask if elided material is truly silent. In a prosodic experiment that studies ellipsis in coordination, I argue that elided material has prosodic representation, despite being silent. I confirm previous …
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Emotional Prosody across languages and genders
This dissertation investigates emotional prosody across different languages and gen- ders, with a focus on its role in the development of Automatic Speech Emotion Recogni- tion (ASER) systems. Recognizing the limitations of existing emotional speech datasets, such as their narrow scope, limited …
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Prosody in Human Communication and Machine Understanding
… to which they can take advantage of cues from prosody. Prosody has great potential as an untapped source of linguistic information for speech understanding that is not surfaced in other aspects of language. Previous work has shown that prosodic information can be exploited computationally to …
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Perception of prosody by cochlear implant recipients
… with regard to its noise immunity is prosody. Existing reports show that CI users have difficulty with prosody perception. The present study endeavoured to determine if prosody is particularly noise-immune in NH listeners and whether the difficulty that CI users experience in noise can …
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Prosody production and perception with conversational speech
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Towards a hybrid model of speech prosody
… addresses language processing for speech prosody. This study consists of five perception experiments that test the representation of pitch accents in memory, and directly compares memory for pitch accents to memory for phonemes. Results show that (1) explicit memory for prosody is more …
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Style in Performance: The Prosody of Poetic Recitation.
… poetic recitation. Its chief aim is to show the prosody of recitation as a substantial contributor to the overall prosodic effect when a poem is read. It uses a small annotated corpus of multiple recitations of two poems, stored in a relational database, a means of investigation which allows …
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Emotional Prosody Communication In Long-Term Abstained Alcoholics
Emotional prosody difficulties have been found in recently detoxified alcoholics. Through three experiments, it was explored if these production and perception deficits per se continue even after a period of long-term abstinence. In Study one, 15 dry abstained alcoholics (AA) and 15 …
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A computational memory and processing model for prosody
This thesis links processing in working memory to prosody in speech, and links different working memory capacities to different prosodic styles. It provides a causal account of prosodic differences and an architecture for reproducing them in synthesized speech. The implemented system mediates …
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Prosody Dependent Speech Recognition on American Radio News Speech
"Prosody (the melody and rhythm of natural speech), although important for human speech recognition, has not been fully utilized in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. In this dissertation, we propose a novel ""prosody-dependent speech recognition"" framework, in which word and prosody …
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An investigation of discourse prosody in naturally occuring read text
This dissertation investigates the relationship between onset pitch height and topic/paragraph initiality. A review of the literature shows that initiality is usually signalled by high onset pitch. This study uses naturally occurring spoken data taken from the Spoken English Corpus, which is a …
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