This analysis describes categories of pronunciation variants we found in the transcription of monologues recorded for the RVG1 corpus (Regional Variants of German). Our results indicate that transcriptions on orthographic level provide useful information on regional variations of standard German. The pronunciation variants can be categorized into assimilation, enclitics, and types of single pho...

Tarihî olarak yazı dillerindeki edebî ürünler, sözlü dildeki geleneksel anlatım tekniklerini en iyi şekilde kullanmalarının yanı sıra çağdaş anlatı türlerine ait tekniklerinin de etkili kullanıldığı ürünler olmuşlardır. Türkçenin önemli tarihî dönemlerinden Eski Uygur Türkçesi döneminin dikkat çekici eserlerinden biri olan Maytrısimit adlı eser tekniği açsından üst seviye bir niteliği göstermek...

The current essay aims to highlighting a few aspects of the fine ‘art monologue’ practiced by Claudio Magris in his remarkable theatrical achievements (three dramatic monologues and two choral plays), particular, on most compelling play, Lei dunque capirà (2006). On one hand, play highlights masterly use stylistic/dialogic capacity monologue stage and, other, it offers an unprecedented extraord...

While TTS technology has come a long way, there is an ongoing need for bringing improved “naturalness” to synthesized speech. One predominant aspect of natural, spontaneous speech is the variability in it along several dimensions -in terms of vocabulary, prosodic features, paralinguistic elements and discourse markers. Such variability is typically carefully avoided or minimized in conventional...

This paper reports on corpus-based research into the relationship between intonational variation and discourse structure. We examine the effects of speaking style (read versus spontaneous) and of discourse segmentation method (text-alone versus text-and-speech) on the nature of this relationship. We also compare the acoustic-prosodic features of initial, medial, and final utterances in a discou...