We explore the ability to perform automatic prosodic analysis in one language using models trained on another. If we are successful, we should be able to identify prosodic elements in a language for which little or no prosodically labeled training data is available, using models trained on a language for which such training data exists. Given the laborious nature of manual prosodic annotation, ...

There are two common ways to assign relative importance in spoken language: tonic prominence and thematization. The former is expressing the main points of information units in speech (Halliday, 1994), and the latter is putting an element at the beginning of a clause. This study explores how relative importance is realized in English and Persian. It also investigates how advanced Persian learne...

This study investigated the word prominence pattern of Kanakanavu, a critically endangered Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan. Previous studies on the phonetic correlates of Piwan and Saisiyat agreed that pitch is the only consistent cue, indicating that Formosan languages are more like pitchaccent languages. However, given that word accents are in a fixed position for those two languages, ...

there are two common ways to assign relative importance in spoken language: tonic prominence and thematization. the former is expressing the main points of information units in speech (halliday, 1994), and the latter is putting an element at the beginning of a clause. this study explores how relative importance is realized in english and persian. it also investigates how advanced persian learne...

This dissertation establishes the pattern of prominence in Assamese and Assamese English. It shows for the first time that Assamese exemplifies a left – to – right trochaic system with an iterative binary rhythm. However, this rhythmic profile is disturbed by the occurrence of closed syllables deemed to be heavy. To support our intuitive judgements of prominence in Assamese with acoustic eviden...

The purpose of this study was to explore the notion of prominence in spoken language. It concentrated on finding an operational definition of prominence, on giving a description of the linguistic and acoustical correlates of prominence, and on analyzing these correlates in terms of their contribution to prominence distinctions. Furthermore, this study was concerned with feature extraction, and ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the notion of prominence in spoken language. It concentrated on finding an operational definition of prominence, on giving a description of the linguistic and acoustical correlates of prominence, and on analyzing these correlates in terms of their contribution to prominence distinctions. Furthermore, this study was concerned with feature extraction, and ...

In natural conversation, speakers often mention the same referents multiple times. While referents that have been previously mentioned are produced with less prominence than those that have not been mentioned, it is unclear whether prominence reduction is due to repetition of concepts, words, or a combination of the two. In the current study, we dissociate these sources of repetition by examini...

Since Bolinger’s [1] discovery that pitch cues accentual prominence in English, a tension has arisen between two strategies: equating accent with pitch excursions and relying on perception for identifying accented words. This paper investigates the relation between prominence judgments from untrained listeners and accentual labels produced by trained transcribers. Naïve speakers of English, Spa...