rhythm is a criterion for harmonic music, just in a way that prosody is for poetry. like prosody, rhythm has meters that were called periods or rhythmic periods. rhythmic periods consist of noqrehs (silver) or stresses that are equal to words in poem. present article is to study the science of rhythm and prosody, considering the similarities and dissimilarities in their divisions such as their ...

Emotional states are communicated by seeing the face as well as by listening to affective prosody. The two inputs can also be present at the same time and are then processed concurrently. The present experiment examines the role of the voice on the upper versus lower halves of a face. Previous research using an angry-fear facial expression continuum showed that recognition of the lower half of ...

Automatic recognition of human affective states is still a largely unexplored and challenging topic. Even more issues arise when dealing with variable quality of the inputs or aiming for real-time, unconstrained, and person independent scenarios. In this paper, we explore audio-visual multimodal emotion recognition. We present SAMMI, a framework designed to extract real-time emotion appraisals ...

Automatic multimodal recognition of spontaneous emotional expressions is a largely unexplored and challenging problem. In this paper, we explore audio-visual emotion recognition in a realistic human conversation setting—the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). Based on the assumption that facial expression and vocal expression are at the same coarse affective states, positive and negative emotion ...

In speaker recognition applications, the changes of emotional states are main causes of errors. The ongoing work described in this contribution attempts to enhance the performance of automatic speaker recognition (ASR) systems on emotional speech. Two procedures that only need a small quantity of affective training data are applied to ASR task, which is very practical in real-world situations. ...

Although infants begin to encode and track novel words in fluent speech by 7.5 months, their ability to recognize words is somewhat limited at this stage. In particular, when the surface form of a word is altered, by changing the gender or affective prosody of the speaker, infants begin to falter at spoken word recognition. Given that natural speech is replete with variability, only some of whi...

In translation, choosing appropriate equivalent is essential to convey the right message from source-text to target-text, and one of the issues that may have a determinative role in appropriate equivalent choice is the semantic prosody (SP) behavior of words and the relation existing between the SP of a word and semantic senses (i.e. negativity, positivity or neutrality) of its collocations in ...

PURPOSE This study aimed to identify the nature and extent of receptive and expressive prosodic deficits in children with high-functioning autism (HFA). METHOD Thirty-one children with HFA, 72 typically developing controls matched on verbal mental age, and 33 adults with normal speech completed the prosody assessment procedure, Profiling Elements of Prosodic Systems in Children. RESULTS Chi...