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Keynote SpeechesText-To-Speech Synthesis 1Spoken Language Models and Dialog 1Prosody and Emotion 1Hidden Markov Model Techniques 1Speaker and Language Recognition 1Multimodal Spoken Language Processing 1Isolated Word RecognitionRobust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments 1Spoken Language Models and Dialog 2Articulatory Modelling 1Talking to Infants, Pets and LoversRobust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments 2Spoken Language Models and Dialog 3Speech Coding 1Articulatory Modelling 2Prosody and Emotion 2Neural Networks, Fuzzy and Evolutionary Methods 1Utterance Verification and Word Spotting 1 / Speaker Adaptation 1Text-To-Speech Synthesis 2Spoken Language Models and Dialog 4Human Speech Perception 1Robust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments 3Speech and Hearing Disorders 1Prosody and Emotion 3Spoken Language Understanding Systems 1Signal Processing and Speech Analysis 1Spoken Language Generation and Translation 1Spoken Language Models and Dialog 5Segmentation, Labelling and Speech Corpora 1Multimodal Spoken Language Processing 2Prosody and Emotion 4Neural Networks, Fuzzy and Evolutionary Methods 2Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 1Speaker and Language Recognition 2Signal Processing and Speech Analysis 2Prosody and Emotion 5Robust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments 4Segmentation, Labelling and Speech Corpora 2Speech Technology Applications and Human-Machine Interface 1Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 2Text-To-Speech Synthesis 3Language Acquisition 1Acoustic Phonetics 1Speaker Adaptation 2Speech Coding 2Hidden Markov Model Techniques 2Multilingual Perception and Recognition 1Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 3Articulatory Modelling 3Language Acquisition 2Speaker and Language Recognition 3Text-To-Speech Synthesis 4Spoken Language Understanding Systems 4Human Speech Perception 2Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 4Spoken Language Understanding Systems 2Signal Processing and Speech Analysis 3Human Speech Perception 3Speaker Adaptation 3Spoken Language Understanding Systems 3Multimodal Spoken Language Processing 3Acoustic Phonetics 2Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 5Speech Coding 3Language Acquisition 3 / Multilingual Perception and Recognition 2Segmentation, Labelling and Speech Corpora 3Text-To-Speech Synthesis 5Spoken Language Generation and Translation 2Human Speech Perception 4Robust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments 5Text-To-Speech Synthesis 6Speech Technology Applications and Human-Machine Interface 2Prosody and Emotion 6Hidden Markov Model Techniques 3Speech and Hearing Disorders 2 / Speech Processing for the Speech and Hearing Impaired 1Human Speech ProductionSegmentation, Labelling and Speech Corpora 4Speaker and Language Recognition 4Speech Technology Applications and Human-Machine Interface 3Utterance Verification and Word Spotting 2Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 6Neural Networks, Fuzzy and Evolutionary Methods 3Speech Processing for the Speech-Impaired and Hearing-Impaired 2Prosody and Emotion 72: SST Student Day
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Intonative Structure as a Determinant of Word Order Variation in Dutch Verbal Endgroups
Authors:
Marc Swerts, IPO, Center for Research on User-System Interaction (The Netherlands)
Page (NA) Paper number 267
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This paper looks into the question to what extent intonative structure determines word order variation in a particular type of syntactic structures in Dutch. Certain subordinate clauses in this language may contain verbal groups consisting of an auxiliary (aux) and a participle (part) that appear in sentence-final position. The order of these verbal elements is fundamentally free so that both aux+part and part+aux combinations occur. Analyses were based on a set of thirty spontaneous monologues, which contained 71 clauses with verbal endgroups, with the two orders about equally balanced. Distributional analyses revealed that prosodic features both inside the verbal group and in the immediately preceding and following contexts play a role in the choice for the two orders. First, a pitch accent on the participle mostly leads to a part+aux order. Second, an accent on the word immediately preceding the verbal endgroup under certain conditions favours an aux+part order, whereas a prosodic boundary after the endgroup favours a part+aux order. Results are discussed in terms of particular push principles, from the left and the right.
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Experiments on the Meaning of Two Pitch Accent Types: The 'Pointed Hat' Versus the Accent-lending Fall in Dutch
Authors:
Johanneke Caspers, Phonetics Laboratory/Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (The Netherlands)
Page (NA) Paper number 235
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The aim of the present investigation is to find out more about the meaning of two Dutch melodic shapes: the default pitch accent or `pointed hat' and the accent-lending fall. Can the meaning difference between these pitch configurations be better described as a difference in information status or as a difference in attitude? Subjects were presented with the two contours on short sentences in specific contexts; the stimulus formed either the answer to a question (the focused information is new) or the completion of an enumeration (the focused information was already projected). In a pairwise comparison test subjects had to choose the contour best fitting the presented context. In a rating experiment subjects judged each combination of contour type and context on a number of semantic scales. Information status as well as attitude explain part of the results, indicating that both notions should be incorporated in the semantics of intonation.
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Phonetic and Phonological Markers of Contrastive Focus in Korean
Authors:
Sun-Ah Jun, UCLA, Dept. of Linguistics (USA)
Hyuck-Joon Lee, UCLA, Dept. of Linguistics (USA)
Page (NA) Paper number 1087
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Cross-linguistically, focus is often cued by suprasegmental features and changes in phrasing. In this paper, phonetic and phonological markers of contrastive focus in Korean are investigated. We find that, as a phonological marker, focus initiates an accentual phrase (AP), and tends to, but does not always, include the following words in the same AP. But regardless of whether the post-focus sequence is dephrased or not, there is a significant expansion of the focused peak compared to the peak on the following words, thus achieving the perceptual goal of focus: prominence of the focused word relative to the following items. As a phonetic marker, a focused AP has extra-strengthening on its left edge, and the sequence before and after focus tends to be shorter than that in a neutral sentence.
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Reconciling Two Competing Views on Contrastiveness
Authors:
Emiel Krahmer, IPO, Center for Research on User-System Interaction (The Netherlands)
Marc Swerts, IPO, Center for Research on User-System Interaction (The Netherlands)
Page (NA) Paper number 270
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Some people claim that contrastive accents are more emphatic than newness accents and have a different melodic shape. Others, however, maintain that contrastiveness can only be determined by looking at how accents are distributed in an utterance. In this paper it is argued that these two competing views can be reconciled by showing that they apply on different levels. To this end, accent patterns were obtained via a dialogue game (Dutch) in which two participants had to describe coloured figures in consecutive turns. Target descriptions (``blue square") were collected in four contexts: no contrast (all new), contrast in the adjective, contrast in the noun, all contrast. A distributional analysis revealed that both all new and all contrast situations correspond with double accents, whereas single accents on the adjective or the noun are used when these are contrastive. Single contrastive accents on the adjective are acoustically different from newness accents in the same syntactic position. The former have the shape of a `nuclear' accent, whereas the newness accents on the adjective are `prenuclear'. Contrastive accents stand out as perceptually more prominent than newness accents. This difference in salience tends to disappear if the accented word is heard in isolation.