This article addresses two related questions regarding the perception of facial markers of prominence in spoken utterances: (1) how important are visual cues to prominence from the face with respect to auditory cues? and (2) are there differences between different facial areas in their cue value for prosodic prominence? The first perception experiment tackles the relation between auditory and v...

Speakers communicate pragmatic and discourse meaning through the prosodic form assigned to an utterance, and listeners must attend to the acoustic cues to prosodic form to fully recover the speaker’s intended meaning. While much of the research on prosody examines supra-segmental cues such as F0 and temporal patterns, prosody is also known to affect the phonetic properties of segments as well. ...

The perception of prosodic prominence is influenced by different sources like different acoustic cues, linguistic expectations and context. We use a generalized additive model and a random forest to model the perceived prominence on a corpus of spoken German. Both models are able to explain over 80% of the variance. While the random forests give us some insights on the relative importance of th...