Speech Prosody

• Autore: Hirst Daniel
• Pubblicazione: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 pages)
• Disciplina: 414
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Speech Prosody, the Missing Link -- 1.1 What is speech prosody? -- 1.2 Speech and Writing -- 1.3 Prosody at work -- 1.4 How many words? -- 1.5 Summary and Perspectives. -- Chapter 2 Looking at Sounds -- 2.1 Sounds -- 2.2 Using software for acoustic analysis -- 2.2.1 Downloading and installing Praat. -- 2.2.2 Opening a recording from a sound file -- 2.2.3 Making your own recording -- 2.2.4 Selecting a recording -- 2.2.5 Some information about your sound -- 2.2.6 Editing a recording -- 2.3 Measuring length -- 2.3.1 Creating a TextGrid -- 2.3.2 Getting durations from a TextGrid -- 2.4 Measuring pitch -- 2.4.1 What's so fundamental about fundamental frequency? -- 2.4.2 Detecting f0 -- 2.5 Measuring loudness -- 2.6 Summary and Perspectives -- Chapter 3 The Transcription of Speech Prosody -- 3.1 Musical notation -- 3.2 Numerical scales -- 3.3 Didactic approaches to prosodic transcription -- 3.3.1 Keyless stave transcription -- 3.3.2 Tunes -- 3.3.3 Tonetic Stress Marks -- 3.4 Linguistic approaches to prosodic transcription -- 3.4.1 Pitch phonemes -- 3.4.2 Tonal segments -- 3.4.3 Multilingual systems -- 3.4.4 Separating form and function -- 3.4.5 Automatic prosodic transcription -- 3.5 Summary and Perspectives -- Chapter 4 The Prosody of Words -- 4.1 A prosodic typology of languages -- 4.1.1 Quantity languages -- 4.1.2 Tone languages -- 4.13 Stress languages -- 4.2 Not so simple… -- 4.2.1 Quantity languages -- 4.2.2 Tone languages -- 4.2.3 Stress languages -- 4.2.4 Pitch-accent languages -- 4.3 Lexical and non-lexical phonology -- 4.3.1 Aspiration in English -- 4.3.2 Quantity in French -- 4.3.3 Tone in French -- 4.3.4 Stress in French -- 4.4 Summary and Perspectives -- Chapter 5 The Phonology of Speech Prosody -- 5.1 The phonology of quantity -- 5.1.1 Long sounds as geminate phonemes. ; 5.1.2 Long sounds as distinct phonemes -- 5.1.3 Quantity as a distinctive feature -- 5.1.4 The CV tier -- 5.1.5 The X tier and moras -- 5.2 The phonology of tone -- 5.2.1 Annotation of tone -- 5.2.2 Domain of association -- 5.2.3 Relative and absolute pitch -- 5.2.4 Downstep and floating tones -- 5.3 The phonology of stress -- 5.3.1 Stress as prosodic structure -- 5.3.2 Stress and Accent -- 5.4 Summary and Perspectives -- Chapter 6 Prosodic Structure -- 6.1 The Phoneme -- 6.1.1 Phonemes -- 6.1.2 Consonant clusters -- 6.1.3 Velar nasals and nasal vowels -- 6.2 The Syllable -- 6.2.1 Syllables -- 6.2.2 Moras -- 6.3 The Stress Foot -- 6.4 The Intonational Phrase -- 6.5 Other Prosodic Constituents -- 6.5.1 Minor Phrases -- 6.5.2 Paratones -- 6.6 Summary and Perspectives -- Chapter 7 Modelling Speech Rhythm -- 7.1 Linguists as human scientists. -- 7.2 Rhythm and timing. -- 7.2.1 Rhythm classes -- 7.2.2 Empirical evidence for rhythm classes -- 7.2.3 Discrimination of rhythm classes -- 7.2.4 Interval metrics -- 7.2.5 Pairwise metrics -- 7.2.6 The reliability of rhythm metrics -- 7.2.7 Rhythm metrics for cross-varietal comparisons -- 7.3 Modelling syllable duration -- 7.4 Tonal Units and Rhythm Units -- 7.5 Modelling rhythm with ProZed -- 7.6 Summary and Perspectives -- Chapter 8 Modelling Speech Melody -- 8.1 Modelling speech melody -- 8.1.1 Models of fundamental frequency -- 8.1.2 Micromelodic and Macromelodic components -- 8.1.3 Macromelody and micromelody -- 8.1.4 A model for f0 curves -- 8.1.5 Momel -- 8.2 Coding Melody with INTSINT -- 8.2.1 INTSINT: an INternational Transcription System for INTonation -- 8.2.2 Mapping from INTSINT to Momel -- 8.2.3 Mapping from Momel to INTSINT -- 8.2.4 Longer term characteristics of pitch range -- 8.3 ProZed -- 8.3.1 ProZed melody -- 8.3.2 Determining pitch via the Tonal Unit (TU) tier. ; 8.3.3 Defining long term parameters with the Intonation Unit (IU) tier -- 8.3.4 Integrating the synthesis with the automatic analysis of pitch -- 8.3.5 Displaying speech prosody -- 8.3.6 Melody metrics -- 8.3.7 Comparing L1 and L2 prosody -- 8.4 Summary and Perspectives -- Chapter 9 Interpreting Speech Prosody -- 9.1 The Prosody Paradox -- 9.2 Prosody and Music -- 9.3 Prosody Codes -- 9.3.1 Unnatural patterns -- 9.3.2 Declarative rises in Northern urban UK -- 9.3.3 Why should Viking Falls go up? -- 9.4 Prosodic Features -- 9.5 Prosodic Structure -- 9.6 Prosodic Morphemes -- 9.6.1 Emphatic particles -- 9.6.2 Question particles and non-terminality -- 9.7 Deriving Intonation Patterns -- 9.7.1 Unmarked declarative intonation -- 9.7.2 Emphatic intonation -- 9.7.3 Non-terminal intonation -- 9.7.4 Emphatic non-terminal intonation -- 9.7.5 Summary for English intonation -- 9.7.6 French intonation -- 9.8 Summary and Perspectives -- Chapter 10 Conclusion -- References -- Language Index -- Author Index -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Speech Prosody
• ISBN: 3-642-40772-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910890184203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics Series