More and more efforts have been recently made to apply speech technologies to language learning and develop CALL systems[1]–[4]. The authors have been focusing on Japanese manners of generating English word stress. This is because pronunciation habits which are inevitable to Japanese learners can be easily found in the stress generation. In our previous study, a stressed syllable detector and a...

More and more efforts have been recently made to apply speech technologies to language learning and develop CALL systems[1]–[4]. The authors have been focusing on Japanese manners of generating English word stress. This is because pronunciation habits which are inevitable to Japanese learners can be easily found in the stress generation. In our previous study, a stressed syllable detector and a...

accepted for Between Stress and Tone Conference in Leiden, June 2005 Authors: Christine Mooshammer, Jonathan Harrington Linguistic prominence and loudness: a systematic comparison between lexical word stress, sentence accent and vocal effort In Germanic languages, linguistic prominence is associated with an increase in duration, fundamental frequency, articulatory precision and intensity. Diffe...

The present study examines prosodic characteristics of Taiwan (TW) English in relation to native (L1) English and TW speakers’ mother tongue, Mandarin. The aim is to investigate 1) how TW second-language (L2) English is different from L1 English by integrated prosodic features 2) if any transfer effect from L2s’ mother tongue contributes to L2 accent and 3) What is the similarity/difference bet...

Spoken Paired Word Pattern Written by Administrator Tuesday, 15 March 2011 09:37 Last Updated Monday, 21 March 2011 07:49 Technologies that recognize short spoken words from a small, predefined vocabulary have been commercially available from many years. In this paper, Spoken Paired Word (SPW) as a whole word template has been explored for utility and suitability in real time system, which has ...

Spoken Paired Word Pattern Written by Administrator Tuesday, 15 March 2011 09:37 Last Updated Monday, 21 March 2011 07:49 Technologies that recognize short spoken words from a small, predefined vocabulary have been commercially available from many years. In this paper, Spoken Paired Word (SPW) as a whole word template has been explored for utility and suitability in real time system, which has ...

Prominence in speech is typically realised by means of greater amplitude, duration and F0 the vowel nucleus syllable that carries word/sentence stress. It well-established more important physical dimension. The present study reports analysis word realisation two groups children differing hearing status. One group consisted with impairment, while other age-matched normal hearing. hearing-impaire...

• Speakers are sensitive to auditorily perturbed speech timing. Response strategies depend on stress pattern and/or syllable position. Insight into timing requires consideration of multiple prosodic levels. Durational adjustments were often accompanied by changes in intensity and other suprasegmentals. This study examines speakers’ reaction focally applied temporal real-time auditory feedback p...

This study investigates acoustic and articulatory correlates of South Swedish word accents (Accent 1 vs. 2) – a tonal distinction traditionally associated with F0 timing. The study is motivated by previous findings on (i) the acoustic complexity of tonal prosody and (ii) tonal-articulatory interplay in other languages. Acoustic and articulatory (EMA) data from two controlled experiments are rep...

In this paper we focus on the use of acoustic as well as voice quality parameters to mark word stress in German. Our aim was to identify the speech parameters parents use to indicate word stress differences to their children. Therefore, mothers and their children were recorded during a period of at least one year while they performed a special playing task using word pairs that differ only in t...