A study on durational phenomena in list like enumerations in German is presented. Due to its highly structured and uniform nature this rather specialized utterance type seems especially wellsuited for investigating principles of the rhythmical organization of speech. A corpus extracted from radio weather reports is used in order to investigate phenomena like prefinal lengthening and effects of ...

The current study addresses the extent of phonological planning during spontaneous sentence production. Previous work shows that at articulation, phonological encoding occurs for entire phrases, but encoding beyond the initial phrase may be due to the syntactic relevance of the verb in planning the utterance. I conducted three experiments to investigate whether phonological planning crosses mul...

This paper presents a method for an AAC system to predict a whole response given features of the previous utterance from the interlocutor. It uses a large corpus of scripted dialogs, computes a variety of lexical, syntactic and whole phrase features for the previous utterance, and predicts features that the response should have, using an entropy-based measure. We evaluate the system on a held-o...

When interpreting a speaker’s utterance, listeners routinely go beyond the information that is linguistically encoded and draw pragmatic inferences about what the speaker intended to convey. A core aspect of pragmatic inference is that it requires listeners to take into account alternative utterances that a speaker could have produced, but didn’t. For example, a listener who believes that the m...

We use the interpretation of vague scalar predicates like small as an illustration of how systematic semantic models of dialogue context enable the derivation of useful, fine-grained utterance interpretations from radically underspecified semantic forms. Because dialogue context suffices to determine salient alternative scales and relevant distinctions along these scales, we can infer implicit ...

Sentences like these are special insofar as their utterance in appropriate circumstances amounts to performing the action identified by the finite verb. The typical formal properties of such sentences in English include first person subjects, second person indirect objects, a present tense non-progressive active form of a speech act verb and the deictic adverb hereby, but performative sentences...

Automatic speaker verification is susceptible to various manipulations and spoofing, such as text-to-speech synthesis, voice conversion, replay, tampering, adversarial attacks, so on. We consider a new spoofing scenario called "Partial Spoof" (PS) in which synthesized or transformed speech segments are embedded into bona fide utterance. While existing countermeasures (CMs) can detect fully spoo...

Spoken dialogue systems have until recently upheld the simplifying assumption that the conversation between the user and the system occurs in a strict turn-by-turn fashion. In order to have more human-like, uent conversations with computers, a new generation of spoken dialogue systems has arisen that is capable of processing the user’s speech in an incremental way. As the user is speaking, the ...

According to long-standing orthodoxy in contemporary analytic philosophy of language, the content a sentence (that is, information it encodes and what one asserts when utters it) as used on particular occasion is determined by lexical meanings its parts (and syntax) extra-linguistic context use. Moving from type content, steps, we have something like: ... Step One involves syntax language gener...

The paper discusses utterance planning in information-seeking dialogues and advocates a view of gradual speci cation of the communicative goal. In Constructive Dialogue Management, the set of beliefs that is intended to be communicated to the user is re ned with regard to communicative principles so that the utterance is relevant and appropriate in the context. Communicative principles describe...