Exploring the Prosody-Syntax Interface in Conversations

Exploring the Prosody-Syntax Interfa e in Conversations

Cross-linguistic Influence at Syntax-pragmatics Interface: A Case of OPC in Persian

Recent research in the area of Second Language Acquisition has proposed that bilinguals and L2 learners show syntactic indeterminacy when syntactic properties interface with other cognitive domains. Most of the research in this area has focused on the pragmatic use of syntactic properties while the investigation of compliance with a grammatical rule at syntax-related interfaces has not received...

Quantitative experiments on prosodic and discourse units in the Corpus of Interactional Data

The recent years have seen growing the number initiatives related to the interface between syntax, prosody and discourse. While in English the computational counterpart of this perspective has been largely advanced both from more formal modeling (Ginzburg, 2012) and machine learning perspectives (?), in French the situation is much less clear. Some automatic tools for analyzing prosody (?; ?; ?...

Aligning prosody and syntax in property grammars

We propose in this paper a new approach for representing the prosody/syntax interface. We use for this a particular formalism, called Property Grammars, in which all information is represented by means of constraints. We show how alignment constraints can implement such an interface. One of the interests of these constraints, in comparison with other approaches such as optimality theory, is the...

An Acoustic Study of Emotivity-Prosody Interface in Persian Speech Using the Tilt Model

This paper aims to explore some acoustic properties (i.e. duration and pitch amplitude of speech) associated with three different emotions: anger, sadness and joy against neutrality as a reference point, all being intentionally expressed by six Persian speakers. The primary purpose of this study is to find out if there is any correspondence between the given emotions and prosody patterning in P...