Speech Prosody: From Acoustics to Interpretation

ISBN-13: 9783642407710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 200 str.

Daniel Hirst

Opis

With broad coverage of the entire field, this volume combines linguistic and speech technology approaches and offers hands-on guidance alongside detailed descriptions of analytic techniques in speech prosody as well as software for automatic analysis.

Spis treści

Speech Prosody, the Missing Link.- What does a Sound look like.- The Prosody of Words.- The Phonology of Speech Prosody.- Modeling Speech Rhythm.- Modeling Speech Melody.- Interpreting Speech Prosody.- Describing Intonation. How Many Ways are There of Saying "no".- The Variety of Intonation Systems.- Conclusions and Perspectives.

Blurb

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.