i In mis paper, preliminary considerations and some experimental results are presented in an effort to design Very Large Vocabulary Recognition (VLVR) systems. We will first consider the applicability of current recognition techniques and argue their inadequacy for VLVR. Possible alternate strategies will be explored and their potential usefulness statistically evaluated. Our results indicate t...

Abstract:This study aims at describing learners’ features of pronunciation in terms the suprasegmental aspects found Jokowi’s Specch Lonjakan kasus Covid-19 dan penerapan PPKM Mikro on 23rdof June 2021. Suprasegmental information applies to several different linguistic phenomena such as pitch, duration, and loudness. Speech not only conveys question word or sentence, but also meaning behind eve...

English and Chinese have stark differences in both segmental and suprasegmental features. In particular, for Chinese learners of English as a secondary language (L2), there are expected deviations in the production of English prosody as a result of transfer of linguistic characteristics from their mother tongue. We have designed, collected and annotated a corpus to elicit suprasegmental informa...

Atypical speech prosody is a hallmark feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that presents across the lifespan, but is difficult to reliably characterize qualitatively. Given the great heterogeneity of symptoms in ASD, an acoustic-based objective measure would be vital for clinical assessment and interventions. In this study, we investigate speech features in childpsychologist conversational...

presented at Phonetik & Phonologie 10, Konstanz, Germany. http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/conferences/pp10/abstracts/He_pp10.pdf Klatt, D. H. (1980). Software for a cascade/parallel formant synthesizer, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 67: 971-995. Klatt, D. H. and Klatt, L. C. (1990). Analysis, synthesis, and perception of voice quality variations among female and male talkers, J...

We present a novel approach to discriminating native and nonnative utterances based on suprasegmental features extracted at the Accent Group (AG) level. Past studies have shown modeling a set of shared intonation patterns across AGs to be effective in predicting local f0 contour shapes. Here we demonstrate that AG level prosodic features are also effective in nativeness classification. The prop...

How accurate are listeners at identifying the ethnicities of political figures from one-word samples? Do suprasegmental variables provide a basis for these judgments? Tokens of six lexical items were extracted from speeches by seven male political figures of different stated ethnic identities. In a Mechanical Turk experiment, 94 listeners heard each token twice, then responded to the multiplech...