• Speech Sciences
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.175-185
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• 2003

Japanese and Turkish are syntactically similar to each other, and there are syntactic structures that become ambiguous in terms of NP's and VP's modified by adjectives and adverbs, respectively. The prosody can play a crucial role in differentiating ambiguous sentences to correctly reflect their intended syntactic structures. In what way do the speakers of Sendai dialect of Japanese and Turkish use prosodic elements to differentiate syntactic ambiguities? Acoustic measurements were made of utterances of ambiguous sentences in Japanese and Turkish to observe prosodic strategies for disambiguation. Materials were sentences of the type ADV-VP1-NP-VP2, ADV-NP1-NP2-VP2, where the ambiguity lies in locative adverbial modification, ADV modifying either VP1 or VP2. For this construction the Japanese and Turkish creates the same ambiguities. In this paper, I look at duration, F0, and pause as observed in their speech and see how each language uses three prosodic elements in disambiguation. The results show that both speakers of Sendai dialect in Japan and those of Ankara dialect in Turky use lengthening of the syllable and/or pause before the boundary.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.19-26
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• 2011

Previous laboratory studies have shown that prosodic structures are encoded in the modulations of phonetic patterns of speech including suprasegmental as well as segmental features. Drawing on a prosodically annotated large-scale speech data from the Buckeye corpus of conversational speech of American English, the current study first evaluated the reliability of prosody annotation by a large number of ordinary listeners and later examined whether and how prosodic prominence influences the phonetic realization of multiple acoustic parameters in everyday conversational speech. The results showed that all the measures of acoustic parameters including pitch, loudness, duration, and spectral balance are increased when heard as prominent. These findings suggest that prosodic prominence enhances the phonetic characteristics of the acoustic parameters. The results also showed that the degree of phonetic enhancement vary depending on the types of the acoustic parameters. With respect to the formant structure, the findings from the present study more consistently support Sonority Expansion Hypothesis than Hyperarticulation Hypothesis, showing that the lexically stressed vowels are hyperarticulated only when hyperarticulation does not interfere with sonority expansion. Taken all into account, the present study showed that prosodic prominence modulates the phonetic realization of the acoustic parameters to the direction of the phonetic strengthening in everyday conversational speech and ordinary listeners are attentive to such phonetic variation associated with prosody in speech perception. However, the present study also showed that in everyday conversational speech there is no single dominant acoustic measure signaling prosodic prominence and listeners must attend to such small acoustic variation or integrate acoustic information from multiple acoustic parameters in prosody perception.

• Sijohaknonchong
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.5-35
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• 2003

A usual approach of lyric poetry education emphasizes musicality of prosody that takes the format of singing lyric poem or reciting that involves reading with one's eyes and contemplating through one's consciousness, both with are quite remote from reality. In order to achieve an effective education, traditional lyric poetry education should focus on the recitation format that involves natural respiration. The current study specified theoretically the A study of contents in traditional Korean lyric poetry recitation. recitation. method through understanding rhythm and prosody that are basic principles of recitation. The study also attempted creating contents through three-dimentional image built on a theoretical foundation of systemic poetry recitation method in order to amplify the impression and creation of the traditional Korean lyric poetry. This was done as an effort to manifest an aesthetic nature of traditional lyric poetry and also as an effort to advance one more step in public understanding and appreciation of traditional poetry.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.39-49
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• 2020

The prosody of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has several abnormal features, including monotonous speech. The purpose of this study was to compare acoustic features between an ASD group and a typically developing (TD) group and within the ASD group. The study also examined audience perceptions of the lengthening effect of increasing the number of syllables. 50 participants were divided into two groups (20 with ASD and 30 TD), and they were asked to imitate a total of 28 sentences. In the auditory-perceptual evaluation, seven participants chose sentence types in 115 sentences. Pitch, intensity, speech rate, and pitch slope were used to analyze the significant differences. In conclusion, the ASD group showed higher pitch and intensity and a lower overall speaking rate than the TD group. Moreover, there were significant differences in s2 slope of interrogative sentences. Finally, based on the auditory-perceptual evaluation, only 4.3% of interrogative sentences produced by participants with ASD were perceived as declarative sentences. The cause of this abnormal prosody has not been clearly identified; however, pragmatic ability and other characteristics of autism are related to ASD prosody. This study identified prosodic ASD patterns and suggested the need to develop treatments to improve prosody.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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• 1994.02a
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• pp.93-102
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• 1994

• MALSORI
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• no.spc1
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• pp.83-92
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• 2002

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.11a
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• pp.137-139
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• 2019

본 논문은 다양한 음성 특징과 텍스트를 이용한 멀티 모드 순환신경망 네트워크를 사용하여 음성을 통한 범주형(categorical) 분류 방법과 Arousal-Valence(AV) 도메인에서의 분류방법을 통해 감정인식 결과를 제시한다. 본 연구에서는 음성 특징으로는 MFCC, Energy, Velocity, Acceleration, Prosody 및 Mel Spectrogram 등의 다양한 특징들의 조합을 이용하였고 이에 해당하는 텍스트 정보를 순환신경망 기반 네트워크를 통해 융합하여 범주형 분류 방법과 과 AV 도메인에서의 분류 방법을 이용해 감정을 이산적으로 분류하였다. 실험 결과, 음성 특징의 조합으로 MFCC Energy, Velocity, Acceleration 각 13 차원과 35 차원의 Prosody 의 조합을 사용하였을 때 범주형 분류 방법에서는 75%로 다른 특징 조합들 보다 높은 결과를 보였고 AV 도메인 에서도 같은 음성 특징의 조합이 Arousal 55.3%, Valence 53.1%로 각각 가장 높은 결과를 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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• 2002.02a
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• pp.259-270
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• 2002

I examine various controversial aspects of Chinese prosody-tone structure, syllable structure, stress, and intonation-and stress the need to view all of these as interacting systems, aspects of a hierarchical prosodic structure. 1 examine various proposals at these various levels of the hierarchy and suggest which are most appropriate. Specifically, 1 suggest the adoption of Bao's version of syllable and tone, and Chen's account of stress. As for intonation, it is still not possible to make any definitive claims regarding an optimal model, but I examine work done by Kratochvil, Shih, and Carding et al, and suggest promising directions for future work.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.251-255
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• 2004

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of using songs for the acquisition of English Prosody in elementary school. For the purpose, 8 classes were chosen to teach songs for four months, and listening tests and reading test were performed for analyzing the effect. The result is as follows : (1) The result of listening test showed that the average scores of the experimental classes were higher than those of comparative classes, and it was more effective in lower grades than in upper grades. (2) In pronunciation tests, the pronunciations of experimental classes were more similar to native speaker's pronunciation that those of comparative classes in intonation, lexical stress and sentence stress. (3) Singing songs repeatedly is more important than learning many songs. It means that to give the chances to sing as many times as possible is advisable for teaching pronunciation.

• MALSORI
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• no.49
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• pp.159-174
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• 2004

The development of the durational component of prosody modelling was overviewed and discussed in text-to-speech conversion of spoken English and Korean, showing the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. The possibility of integrating linguistic feature effects into the duration modelling of TTS systems was also investigated. This paper claims that current approaches to language timing synthesis still require an understanding of how segmental duration is affected by context. Three modelling approaches were discussed: sequential rule systems, Classification and Regression Tree (CART) models and Sums-of-Products (SoP) models. The CART and SoP models show good performance results in predicting segment duration in English, while it is not the case in the SoP modelling of spoken Korean.