The paper reports on the findings of study prosody in teaching spontaneous speech production. Insufficient development a scientifically based methodology for building oral language skills, taking into account its prosodic characteristics, determines relevance study. main goal research is to correct learner talk, results experimental phonetic research. an integrated approach using linguistic met...

In this paper a case is made for examining tone perception and particularly phenomena of tonal alignment in terms of perceptual limitations to pitch processing. The perception of pitch and tonal movement is discussed in relationship to research on alignment. Results from perception experiments using Swedish listeners and non-scripted speech production data from Swedish speakers are used to exem...

This paper introduces questions to be discussed in a round-table on "Tone and intonation". Considering the state of the art, we propose the following topics: • Downstep preplanning and downstep patterns • Question prosody and prosodic universals, • Focus prosody and prosodic universals, • "Boundary tones", "intonational tails" and "particles"

Although there have been a large number of studies on English intonation and intonation teaching there has been little research on intonation assessment other than [1], [3] and [4]. This paper evaluates the intonation of native speakers (NSs) and non-native speakers (NNSs) of English with and without knowledge of intonation theory in spontaneous and scripted speech tasks, and asks whether they ...

In this paper a methodology and preliminary results of a machine learning experiment for correlating intonation patterns with dialogue acts are presented. The goal of this work is to assess the extent to which prosodic information can help to identify dialogue act types.