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Pragmatics and Prosody in English Language Teaching

Author : Jesús Romero-Trillo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400738838
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Pragmatics and Prosody in English Language Teaching by : Jesús Romero-Trillo

Download or read book Pragmatics and Prosody in English Language Teaching written by Jesús Romero-Trillo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the elusive subject of English prosody—the stress, rhythm and intonation of the language—, and its relevance for English language teaching. Its sharp focus will be especially welcomed by teachers of English to non-native speakers, but also by scholars and researchers interested in Applied Linguistics. The book examines key issues in the development of prosody and delves into the role of intonation in the construction of meaning. The contributions tackle difficult areas of intonation for language learners, providing a theoretical analysis of each stumbling block as well as a practical explanation for teachers and teacher trainers. The numerous issues dealt with in the book include stress and rhythm; tone units and information structure; intonation and pragmatic meaning; tonicity and markedness, etc... The authors have deployed speech analysis software to illustrate their examples as well as to encourage readers to carry out their own computerized prosodic analyses.

Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis: Modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis

Author : Keikichi Hirose
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662452588
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Book Synopsis Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis: Modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis by : Keikichi Hirose

Download or read book Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis: Modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis written by Keikichi Hirose and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume addresses issues concerning prosody generation in speech synthesis, including prosody modeling, how we can convey para- and non-linguistic information in speech synthesis, and prosody control in speech synthesis (including prosody conversions). A high level of quality has already been achieved in speech synthesis by using selection-based methods with segments of human speech. Although the method enables synthetic speech with various voice qualities and speaking styles, it requires large speech corpora with targeted quality and style. Accordingly, speech conversion techniques are now of growing interest among researchers. HMM/GMM-based methods are widely used, but entail several major problems when viewed from the prosody perspective; prosodic features cover a wider time span than segmental features and their frame-by-frame processing is not always appropriate. The book offers a good overview of state-of-the-art studies on prosody in speech synthesis.

Courses on Speech Prosody

Author : Alexsandro Rodrigues Meireles
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443882976
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Courses on Speech Prosody by : Alexsandro Rodrigues Meireles

Download or read book Courses on Speech Prosody written by Alexsandro Rodrigues Meireles and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, speech prosody research in Brazil has grown significantly, mainly due to a series of events organized through the support of the Brazilian government. The two most important of these events are the biennial Brazilian Colloquium on Speech Prosody and School of Prosody, both of which attract a number of prominent Brazilian and international researchers. Due to the success of the 1st Brazilian Colloquium on Speech Prosody, the Luso-Brazilian Association of Speech Sciences (LBASS) was created in 2007 to support the organization of the Speech Prosody 2008 Conference, which was held in Campinas in May of that year. This international conference, organized by Dr Plínio Barbosa, Dr César Reis, and Dr Sandra Madureira, followed the success of the previous avenues of study, and brought together prosodic researchers from all over the world. The primary motivation for this book is the dearth of textbooks dealing directly with speech prosody methodology and data. As such, this volume offers a selection of the most attended prosody courses provided during the II School of Prosody at the Federal University of Espirito Santo in 2012. Consequently, this enterprise will not only contribute to prosody education in Brazil, but will also have a significant impact on prosody education in other countries.

The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody

Author : Carlos Gussenhoven
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198832230
Total Pages : 957 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody by : Carlos Gussenhoven

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody written by Carlos Gussenhoven and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.

Prosody and Language in Contact

Author : Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662451689
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Book Synopsis Prosody and Language in Contact by : Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie

Download or read book Prosody and Language in Contact written by Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides new insights into various issues on prosody in contact situations, contact referring here to the L2 acquisition process as well as to situations where two language systems may co-exist. A wide array of phenomena are dealt with (prosodic description of linguistic systems in contact situations, analysis of prosodic changes, language development processes, etc.), and the results obtained may give an indication of what is more or less stable in phonological and prosodic systems. In addition, the selected papers clearly show how languages may have influenced or may have been influenced by other language varieties (in multilingual situations where different languages are in constant contact with one another, but also in the process of L2 acquisition). Unlike previous volumes on related topics, which focus in general either on L2 acquisition or on the description and analyses of different varieties of a given language, this volume considers both topics in parallel, allowing comparison and discussion of the results, which may shed new light on more far-reaching theoretical questions such as the role of markedness in prosody and the causes of prosodic changes.

English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers

Author : Karin McClellan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027246475
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers by : Karin McClellan

Download or read book English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers written by Karin McClellan and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the intricate dynamics of L2 prosody with this pioneering study, which examines how advanced learners from Czech, German, and Spanish backgrounds engage with British and American English intonation. By employing a multidimensional approach - spanning phonetic, phonological, discourse-pragmatic, and sociolinguistic perspectives - this book provides a comprehensive overview of L2 prosodic features, highlighting patterns of intonational phrasing, f0 range, and the use of tones and uptalk. Building on foundational works by Pierrehumbert, Mennen, and Gut, this work bridges significant gaps in the field by comparing different L1 and L2 varieties, integrating diverse linguistic variables, and proposing a multifactorial model of L2 prosody. Relevant for linguists, language educators, and researchers in SLA, the findings offer valuable insights for reducing foreign accents and enhancing intelligibility, making it an essential resource for improving language teaching methodologies and learner outcomes. Dive into this essential guide and elevate your understanding of L2 prosody and its impact on effective communication.

Second Language Prosody and Computer Modeling

Author : Okim Kang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000435601
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Second Language Prosody and Computer Modeling by : Okim Kang

Download or read book Second Language Prosody and Computer Modeling written by Okim Kang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of second language prosody and computer modeling. It addresses the importance of prosody’s role in communication, bridging the gap between applied linguistics and computer science. The book illustrates the growing importance of the relationship between automated speech recognition systems and language learning assessment in light of new technologies and showcases how the study of prosody in this context in particular can offer innovative insights into the computerized process of natural discourse. The book offers detailed accounts of different methods of analysis and computer models used and demonstrates how these models can be applied to L2 discourse analysis toward predicting real-world language use. Kang, Johnson, and Kermad also use these frameworks as a jumping-off point from which to propose new models of second language prosody and future directions for prosodic computer modeling more generally. Making the case for the use of naturalistic data for real-world applications in empirical research, this volume will foster interdisciplinary dialogues across students and researchers in applied linguistics, speech communication, speech science, and computer engineering.

Prosodic Theory and Practice

Author : Jonathan Barnes
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262543176
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Prosodic Theory and Practice written by Jonathan Barnes and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the the range of current theoretical approaches to the prosody of spoken utterances, with practical applications of those theories. Prosody is an extremely dynamic field, with a rapid pace of theoretical development and a steady expansion of its influence beyond linguistics into such areas as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, computer science, speech technology, and even the medical profession. This book provides a set of concise and accessible introductions to each major theoretical approach to prosody, describing its structure and implementation and its central goals and assumptions as well as its strengths and weaknesses. Most surveys of basic questions in prosody are written from the perspective of a single theoretical framework. This volume offers the only summary of the full range of current theoretical approaches, with practical applications of each theory and critical commentary on selected chapters. The current abundance of theoretical approaches has sometimes led to apparent conflicts that may stem more from terminological differences, or from differing notions of what theories of prosody are meant to achieve, than from actual conceptual disagreement. This volume confronts this pervasive problem head on, by having each chapter address a common set of questions on phonology, meaning, phonetics, typology, psychological status, and transcription. Commentary is added as counterpoint to some chapters, with responses by the chapter authors, giving a taste of current debate in the field. Contributors Amalia Arvaniti, Jonathan Barnes, Mara Breen, Laura C. Dilley, Grzegorz Dogil, Martine Grice, Nina Grønnum, Daniel Hirst, Sun-Ah Jun, Jelena Krivokapić, D. Robert Ladd, Fang Liu, Piet Mertens, Bernd Möbius, Gregor Möhler, Oliver Niebuhr, Francis Nolan, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Santitham Prom-on, Antje Schweitzer, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, A. E. Turk, Yi Xu

Speech Prosody: from Acoustics to Interpretation

Author : Daniel Hirst
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783642407710
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis Speech Prosody: from Acoustics to Interpretation by : Daniel Hirst

Download or read book Speech Prosody: from Acoustics to Interpretation written by Daniel Hirst and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the author’s personal overview of Speech Prosody, and in particular the different areas in which he has been especially interested over the last few decades. These include the acoustics of speech prosody, the relationship between lexical and non-lexical prosody, the phonology of prosody, the modeling of rhythm and of melody, and the central question of the various and at times quite mysterious ways in which prosody contributes to the interpretation of an utterance. All these aspects are then brought together in an account of the description of intonation systems, and how these differ across languages.

The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics

Author : Yan Huang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191065218
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics written by Yan Huang and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics. Following an introduction by the editor, the volume is divided into five thematic parts. Chapters in Part I are concerned with schools of thought, foundations, and theories, while Part II deals with central topics in pragmatics, including implicature, presupposition, speech acts, deixis, reference, and context. In Part III, the focus is on cognitively-oriented pragmatics, covering topics such as computational, experimental, and neuropragmatics. Part IV takes a look at socially and culturally-oriented pragmatics such as politeness/impoliteness studies, cross- and intercultural, and interlanguage pragmatics. Finally, the chapters in Part V explore the interfaces of pragmatics with semantics, grammar, morphology, the lexicon, prosody, language change, and information structure. The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics will be an indispensable reference for scholars and students of pragmatics of all theoretical stripes. It will also be a valuable resource for linguists in other fields, including philosophy of language, semantics, morphosyntax, prosody, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics, and for researchers and students in the fields of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, computer science, anthropology, and sociology.

Effective and attractive communication signals in social, cultural, and business contexts

Author : Oliver Niebuhr
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832527612
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Effective and attractive communication signals in social, cultural, and business contexts written by Oliver Niebuhr and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Statistical Language and Speech Processing

Author : Adrian-Horia Dediu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319257897
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Statistical Language and Speech Processing written by Adrian-Horia Dediu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2015, held in Budapest, Hungary, in November 2015. The 26 full papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. The papers cover topics such as: anaphora and coreference resolution; authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering; computer-aided translation; corpora and language resources; data mining and semantic Web; information extraction; information retrieval; knowledge representation and ontologies; lexicons and dictionaries; machine translation; multimodal technologies; natural language understanding; neural representation of speech and language; opinion mining and sentiment analysis; parsing; part-of-speech tagging; question-answering systems; semantic role labelling; speaker identification and verification; speech and language generation; speech recognition; speech synthesis; speech transcription; spelling correction; spoken dialogue systems; term extraction; text categorisation; text summarisation; and user modeling.

The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics

Author : William F. Katz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429508565
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics written by William F. Katz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of research, history and techniques in phonetics. With contributions from 41 prominent authors from North America, Europe, Australia and Japan, and including over 130 figures to illustrate key points, this handbook covers all the most important areas in the field, including: • the history and scope of techniques used, including speech synthesis, vocal tract imaging techniques, and obtaining information on under-researched languages from language archives; • the physiological bases of speech and hearing, including auditory, articulatory, and neural explanations of hearing, speech, and language processes; • theories and models of speech perception and production related to the processing of consonants, vowels, prosody, tone, and intonation; • linguistic phonetics, with discussions of the phonetics-phonology interface, sound change, second language acquisition, sociophonetics, and second language teaching research; • applications and extensions, including phonetics and gender, clinical phonetics, and forensic phonetics. The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics will be indispensable reading for students and practitioners in the fields of speech, language, linguistics and hearing sciences.

Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology

Author : Ulrike Gut
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110346087
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology by : Ulrike Gut

Download or read book Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology written by Ulrike Gut and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is concerned with the acquisition of English phonology, both segmental and suprasegmental, by learners of English as a second language, as a third language and by speakers of a postcolonial (“new”) variety of English. It focuses on the acquisition process and factors influencing it, based on insights from all three disciplines.

The Structure of Spoken Language

Author : Philippe Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316390314
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Spoken Language written by Philippe Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an innovative approach, this book focuses on a widely debated area of phonetics and phonology: intonation, and specifically its relation to metrics, its interface with syntax, and whether it can be attributed more to phonetics or phonology, or equally to both. Drawing on data from six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian), whose rich intonation patterns have long been of interest to linguists, Philippe Martin challenges the assumptions of traditional phonological approaches, and re-evaluates the data in favour of a new usage-based model of intonation. He proposes a unified description of the sentence prosodic structure, focusing on the dynamic and cognitive aspects of both production and perception of intonation in speech, leading to a unified grammar of Romance languages' sentence intonation. This book will be welcomed by researchers and advanced students in phonetics and phonology.

Manual of Romance Phonetics and Phonology

Author : Christoph Gabriel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110550288
Total Pages : 989 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Manual of Romance Phonetics and Phonology written by Christoph Gabriel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 989 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is structured in two parts: it provides, on the one hand, a comprehensive (synchronic) overview of the phonetics and phonology (including prosody) of a breadth of Romance languages and focuses, on the other hand, on central topics of research in Romance segmental and suprasegmental phonology, including comparative and diachronic perspectives. Phonetics and phonology have always been a core discipline in Romance linguistics: the wide synchronic variety of languages and dialects derived from spoken Latin is extensively explored in numerous corpus and atlas projects, and for quite a few of these varieties there is also more or less ample documentation of at least some of their diachronic stages. This rich empirical database offers excellent testing grounds for different theoretical approaches and allows for substantial insights into phonological structuring as well as into (incipient, ongoing, or concluded) processes of phonological change. The volume can be read both as a state-of-the-art report of research in the field and as a manual of Romance languages with special emphasis on the key topics of phonetics and phonology.

Varieties of Spoken French

Author : Sylvain Detey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191075736
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Varieties of Spoken French written by Sylvain Detey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the variation found in modern spoken French, based on the research programme 'Phonology of Contemporary French' (Phonologie du Français Contemporain, PFC). Extensive data are drawn from all over the French-speaking world, including Algeria, Canada, Louisiana, Mauritius, and Switzerland. Although the principal focus is on differences in pronunciation, the authors also analyse the spoken language at all levels from sound to meaning. The book is accompanied by a website hosting audio-visual material for teaching purposes, data, and a variety of tools for working with corpora. The first part of the book outlines some key concepts and approaches to the description of spoken French. Chapters in Part II are devoted to the study of individual samples of spoken French from all over the world, covering phonological and grammatical features as well as lexical and cultural aspects. A class-friendly ready-to-use multimedia version of these 17 chapters as well as a full transcription of each extract is provided, with the sound files also available on the book's companion website. Part III looks at inter and intra-speaker variation: it begins with chapters that provide the methodological background to the study of phonological variation using databases, while in the second section, authors present case studies of a number of PFC survey points, including Paris, the Central African Republic, and Québec. Varieties of Spoken French will be an invaluable resource for researchers, teachers, and students of all aspects of French language and linguistics.