Speech Prosody is the study of intonation and related phenomena, including pitch, loudness, timing, speech rate, and voicing properties. Central topics include the melody and rhythm of speech and how these contribute to meaning at the word, utterance and discourse levels. These issues are of central importance in phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and speech signal processing. Models of prosody are being applied to problems in speech synthesis, speech recognition, speech therapy, language teaching, dialog systems and many other fields.
The Speech Prosody Special Interest Group is dedicated to advancing the scientific study of speech prosody and its applications. As of 2018, the SIG has 1095 members from over 27 countries. To join the SIG, simply send mail to list at-sign sprosig.org to be added to our roster and our low-traffic mailing list.
Upcoming Events
Sponsored Event
- Speech Prosody 2020 will be held at the University of Tokyo, in late May or early June, 2020.
Other Events
- 4th Intonation Workshop, February 15, 2019, University of Toronto
- Prominence between Cognitive Functions and Linguistic Structures, April 20, 2019, Bari, Italy
- ABraLin, short courses on prosody by Plinio Barbos and Sandra Madueira, Oliver Niebhur, and Ester Scarpa
- Interacting Channels of Speech - Tune and Text, special session at ICPhS 2019, organized by Timo Roettger and Martine Grice
- Modeling Meaning-Bearing Configurations of Prosodic Features, special session at ICPhS 2019, organized by Oliver Niebuhr and Nigel Ward
- Introduction to Prosody short course at the 2019 Linguistics Institute, taught by Nigel Ward and Francisco Torreira