This paper presents results from a study on the production of Finnish prosody. The effect of word order and the tonal shape in the production of Finnish prosody was studied as produced by 8 native Finnish speakers. Predictions formulated with regard to results from an earlier study pertaining to the perception of prominence were tested. These predictions had to do with the tonal shape of the ut...

There is a paucity of studies on rhythm in world music in general and with regard to Arabic and Oriental cultures in particular. Musicological studies predominantly focus on acoustical scales, modes, timbre, harmony, etc., unfortunately neglecting a fundamental aspect of music, that is, rhythm and its complex relationship to melody, the accentuation of words in a given language, the intonation ...

This work aims at modelising the use of the suprasegmental system and its relation with the enunciative structure in young children in a dialogue situation with a competent speaker. The role of the intonative and temporal parameters during the grammaticalisation period, which takes place between 2 and 3.5 years of age is investigated in this paper. Results show that children who use intonation ...

Systems for spoken-language understanding can use prosodic information on the speech recognition side as well as the linguistic processing side. In the former case, prosody improves recognition accuracy and speed. In the latter case, it contributes to the computation of meaning. Interfacing prosodic processing to language analysis has so far been mainly concerned with speeding up the parsing pr...

Earlier works show that using a prosody specification that is derived from natural human spoken rendition, increases the naturalness and overall acceptance of speech synthesised complex visual structures by conveying to audio certain semantic information hidden in the visual structure. However, prosody alone, although exhibits significant improvement, cannot perform adequately in the cases of v...