The Speech Prosody SIG Lecture Series, a new initiative of the Speech Prosody SIG Officers, aims to (1) offer to the Speech Prosody community a well-covered view of themes and methods in speech prosody; (2) introduce new perspectives and foster debate; (3) stimulate collaborations among speech prosody researchers, including by making known to the community the existence of public repositories with data, corpora, joint projects asking for collaboration and other resources that can be freely shared. Lectures will be presented live in YouTube, with Q&A, handled through the YouTube's chat feature.
TBD November 16 November 23rd, 1 - 2 pm (Brasilia time, UTC -3)
Segmental Articulations and Prosody
Malin Svensson Lundmark, Lund University
Abstract: This lecture will be on an aspect of the articulatory-acoustics relationship that is rarely addressed but which is both stable and robust across, e.g., places of articulation, tonal context and prosodic levels. It’s about the acceleration and deceleration of articulatory movements and how they coincide with acoustic segment boundaries.
December 14 , 1 - 2 pm (Brasilia time, UTC -3)
How to handle variability in the study of intonation
Amalia Arvaniti, Radboud University, Netherlands.
Abstract: This talk will give an overview of the issue of variability in intonation and present methodological approaches that render variability easier to handle. These methodologies are presented by means of a case study, the English pitch accents H* and L+H*, which are treated as distinct phonological entities in some accounts but as endpoints of a continuum in others. The research that will be presented sheds light on the reasons for the disagreement between analyses and the discrepancies between analyses and empirical evidence, by examining both production data from British English unscripted speech and perceptual data, which also link the processing of the two accents to the participants’ levels of empathy, musicality, and autistic-like traits.
Viewing link TBD
Archived Lectures
Tackling prosodic phenomena at their roots
Professor Yi Xu, University College London. October 25, 2023.
Abstract: Rather than being a coherent whole, speech prosody consists of highly diverse phenomena that are best understood in terms of their communicative functions, together with specific mechanisms of articulatory encoding and perceptual decoding. The understanding of these root causes is therefore key to further advances in prosody research.
archived talk at YouTube and at bilibili
Host: Plinio A. Barbosa, University of Campinas, Brazil