Phonetic marking of stance in a collaborative-task spontaneous-speech corpus

2014 ◽  
Vol 135 (4) ◽  
pp. 2295-2295
Author(s):  
Valerie Freeman ◽  
Gina A. Levow ◽  
Richard Wright
Keyword(s):  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Speech Corpus ◽  
Collaborative Task

scholarly journals UNPREPARED READING AS A TYPE OF SPONTANEOUS SPEECH (on Signs of Spontaneity in Reading in a Non-Native Language)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-46
Author(s):  
Сhunxia Kong ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Language ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Speech Corpus ◽  
Integral Characteristics ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Whole Word

The article discusses unprepared reading in a non-native language and shows it to have all the signs of spontaneity that are traditionally considered integral characteristics of any spontaneous speech: hesitation pauses, both physical (ɭ) and filled with non-speech sounds (uh, m-m), word breaks, reading the whole word or part of it by syllables, vocalization of a consonant, and so forth. The material for the analysis included 40 monologues of reading the story by M. Zoshchenko Fantasy Shirt and a non-plot excerpt from V. Korolenko’s story The Blind Musician recorded from 20 Chinese informants. All the monologues are included in the block of Russian interfering speech of the Chinese as part of the monologic speech corpus Ba­lanced Annotated Text Library. As the analysis showed, it is more often that there is not one sign of spontaneity but a whole complex of such signs, and together they fill hesitation pauses, help the speaker to control the quality of speech or correct what was said, etc. In addition, the occurrence of various signs of spontaneity in the course of unprepared reading is closely related to the individual characteristics of the speaker/reader. In general, we have found that there are more signs of spontaneity in the speech of men (3,244 cases; 40.7 %) than in the speech of women (2,049; 27.7 %), in the speech of informants with a lower level of proficiency in Russian B2 (2,993; 37.9 %) than in the speech of informants with a higher level C1 (2,300; 30.8 %), in the speech of extroverts (1,521; 38 %) than in the speech of ambiverts (1,694; 35,2 %) and introverts (2,078; 31,7 %). As to the type of the source text, there turned out to be more signs of spontaneity in monologues of reading a plot text than in monologues of reading a non-plot text (3,031; 40.3 vs 2,283; 31 %). The paper concludes that reading should be recognized as a spontaneous type of speech activity.

scholarly journals Configuraciones tonales de frases entonativas en enunciados aseverativos del español de la Ciudad de México

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-141
Author(s):  
Alberto Rodríguez Márquez
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
The Other ◽  
Prosodic Features ◽  
Speech Corpus ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Speech Data ◽  
Intonational Phrases

The objective of this paper is to describe the prosodic features of the final intonation contour of minor intonational phrases (ip) and the tonemes of major intonational phrases (IP) in Mexico City’s Spanish variety. The speech data was taken from a spontaneous speech corpus made from speakers from two social networks: neighborhood and labor. Final intonation contours of ip show a predominantly rising movement. These contours are generally produced with greater length in the last syllable of the ip, which represents the most significant difference between both networks in the case of oxitone endings. On the other hand, tonemes are predominantly descendant, although the circumflex accent has an important number of cases within the data set. Tonemes produced by the neighborhood network are produced with larger length than those from the labor network.

Going beyond F0: The acquisition of Mandarin tones

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Nari RHEE ◽  
Aoju CHEN ◽  
Jianjing KUANG
Keyword(s):  
Computational Modelling ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Speech Corpus ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Tone Production ◽  
Adult Level ◽  
Spectral Cues ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Mandarin Tones ◽  
Mandarin Tone

Abstract Using a semi-spontaneous speech corpus, we present evidence from computational modelling of tonal productions from Mandarin-speaking children (4- to 11-years old) and adults, showing that children exceed the adult-level tonal distinction at the age of 7 to 8 years using F0 cues, but do not reach the high adult-level distinction using spectral cues even at the age of 10 to 11 years. The difference in the developmental curves of F0 and spectral cues suggests that, in Mandarin tone production, secondary cues continue to develop even after the mastery of primary cues.

Construction of a Rated Speech Corpus of L2 Learners' Spontaneous Speech

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 662-673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Su-Youn Yoon ◽  
Lisa Pierce ◽  
Amanda Huensch ◽  
Eric Juul ◽  
Samantha Perkins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Speech Corpus ◽  
L2 Learners

scholarly journals Prosodic vowel lengthening in a spontaneous speech corpus of Vimeu Picard

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-88
Author(s):  
Eric Halicki
Keyword(s):  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Vowel Duration ◽  
Speech Corpus ◽  
General Increase ◽  
Romance Language ◽  
Prosodic Word ◽  
Prosodic Boundaries ◽  
Rate Of Speech ◽  
Vowel Lengthening ◽  
Phonological Phrase

Abstract The goal of this paper is to present findings about vowel lengthening at morpho-syntactically defined prosodic boundaries. The data come from a corpus of spontaneous speech from Vimeu Picard, a Gallo- Romance language. A total of 10 672 vowel durations are measured, and 5336 vowel ratios are calculated, providing data for the prosodic word, clitic group, phonological phrase, intonational phrase, and the utterance. A general increase in vowel duration is observed as one ascends the prosodic hierarchy, without adjusting for rate of speech. Significant differences in vowel ratio are found between the clitic group and all other phrases, the prosodic word and the intonational phrase, the phonological phrase and the intonational phrase, and the intonational phrase and the utterance. Contrary to what was expected, vowel ratios at the utterance edge were found to be significantly shorter than vowel ratios at the intonational phrase edge. This may be because pauses are greater for the utterance than for the intonational phrase.

scholarly journals The intonation of mitigating politeness in Catalan

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Empar Devís Herraiz ◽  
Francisco José Cantero Serena
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Speech Corpus ◽  
Descriptive Model ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis

AbstractThis paper presents a descriptive model of the melodic characteristics of expressions of politeness attenuators in Catalan, based on the acoustic analysis of a spontaneous speech corpus and its subsequent perceptive validation. The model allows the pragmatic analysis of the phenomenon to be covered, as well as offering future guidelines for its teaching. In addition, the results of the analysis reflect the extensive character of the phenomenon, which surpasses the strict limits of idiomatic code, and allows inter-linguistic analysis. The paper is the product of the collaboration between the

scholarly journals Measuring and comparing vowel qualities in a Dutch spontaneous speech corpus

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Jacobi ◽  
Louis C. W. Pols ◽  
Jan Stroop
Keyword(s):  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Speech Corpus
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