In accordance with the general DOP architecture outlined by (Bod 1995b), a particular DOP model is described by specifying settings for the following four parameters: (1) a formal definition of a well-formed representation for utterance-analyses; (2) a definition of the fragments of the utterance-analyses that may be used as units in constructing an analysis of a new utterance; (3) a set of com...

This paper presents a unified theory of verbal irony tbr developing a computational model of irony. The theory claims that an ironic utterance implicitly communicates the fact that its utterance situation is surrounded by ironic environment which has three properties, but hearers can assume an utterance to be ironic even when they recognize that it implicitly communicates only two of the three ...

Previous research shows that 2-year-olds’ production of third person singular -s, but not plural -s, is affected by coda complexity, though both are more accurately produced in durationally longer utterance-final compared to utterancemedial position. This study explores these effects with possessive -s. Acoustic analysis of 10 two-years-olds’ elicited imitations examined children’s use of simpl...

A method of embedding a covert audio message in a cover utterance for secure communication is presented. The covert message is represented in a compressed form with possibly encryption and/or encoding for added security. One bit in each of the samples of a given cover utterance is altered in accordance with the data bits and a key. The same key is used to retrieve the embedded bits at the recei...

Dynamic Time Warping is a technique for aligning two sequences of symbols. For speech recognition, the obvious application is aligning a captured utterance with an idealized template utterance. In general the two sequences are not of equal length, and the expansion or compression needed to align the sequences may not be uniform. For example, a template utterance may be spoken at a uniform rate ...

This paper proposes the implicit display theory of verbal irony that overcomes several difficulties of previous irony theories, and then describes a computational model of irony interpretation and generation based on the theory. The theory claims that irony implicitly communicates the fact that its utterance situation is surrounded by ironic environment which has three properties, but hearers c...

This paper discusses the influence of the word lip reading by change of the frame rate. The proposed method applies active appearance model to extract the face and several lip regions. Then, our method calculates trajectory feature and applies DP matching. We set the target words as the Japanese 25 words, and took 250 utterance scenes per a speaker from ten Japanese men. Though many of research...

Language is one of the important aspects key to understanding specific goals and purposes used by people around world, language as a tool serves significant communication developing in human civilization. this evidenced many types supporting applications, Praat program which can change sound waves that previously could only be heard now become visible eye. In addition, program, equipped with de...