Speech Prosody 2002 - an international conference

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Aix-en-Provence, France, 11-13 April 2002

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INVITED PAPERS

Oral session, 11 April 2002 -- Prosody and Emotion

Mozziconacci, S.J.: Prosody and Emotions

Wichmann, A.: Attitudinal Intonation and the Inferential Process

Zei Pollermann, B.: A Place for Prosody in a Unified Model of Cognition and Emotion

Oral session, 11 April 2002 -- Prosody and Speech Technology

Wightman, C.W.: ToBI Or Not ToBI?

Li, A.: Chinese Prosody and Prosodic Labeling of Spontaneous Speech

Mixdorff, H.: Speech Technology, ToBI and Making Sense of Prosody

Oral session, 12 April 2002 -- Prosody and Syntactic, Semantic, Pragmatic Interpretation

Gussenhoven, C.: Intonation and Interpretation: Phonetics and Phonology

Fretheim, T.: Intonation as a Constraint on Inferential Processing

Hirschberg, J.: The Pragmatics of Intonational Meaning

Botinis, A.; Bannert, R.; Fourakis, M.; Pagoni-Tetlow, S.: Crosslinguistic Segmental Durations and Prosodic Typology

Boula de Mareüil, P.; Célérier, P.; Toen, J.: Generation of Emotions by a Morphing Technique in English, French and Spanish

Bouzon, C.; Hirst, D.J.: The Influence of Prosodic Factors on the Duration of Words in British English

Caelen-Haumont, G.: Perlocutory Values and Functions of Melisms in Spontaneous Dialogue

Campione, E.; Véronis, J.: A Large-Scale Multilingual Study of Silent Pause Duration

Cao, J.; Zhu, W.: Syntactic and Lexical Constraint in Prosodic Segmentation and Grouping

Cardeñoso-Payo, V.; Escudero Mancebo, D.D.: Statistical Modelling of Stress Groups in Spanish

Chen, Y.: Accentual Lengthening of Monosyllabic-Constituents in Beijing Mandarin

Chen, A.; Gussenhoven, C.; Rietveld, T.: Language-specific Uses of the Effort Code

Chung, H.: Duration Models and the Perceptual Evaluation of Spoken Korean

Claßen, K.: Realisations of Nuclear Pitch Accents in Swabian Dialect and Parkinson's Dysarthria: A Preliminary Report

Contini, M.; Lai, J.-P.; Romano, A.; Roullet, S.; Moutinho, L.C.; Coimbra, R.L.; Pereira Bendiha, U.; Ruivo, S.Q.: Un projet d'atlas multimédia prosodique de l'espace roman

Cutugno, F.; D'Anna, L.; Petrillo, M.; Zovato, E.: APA: Towards an Automatic Tool for Prosodic Analysis

Dainora, A.: Does Intonational Meaning Come From Tones or Tunes? Evidence Against a Compositional Approach

Delais-Roussarie, E.; Rialland, A.; Doetjes, J.; Marandin, J.-M.: The Prosody of Post-Focus Sequences in French

Delmonte, R.: A Prosodic Module for Self-Learning Activities

Doetjes, J.; Delais-Roussarie, E.; Sleeman, P.: The Prosody of Left Detached Constituents in French

Dohalska, M.: Rythme le « barrage » pour la perception des noms propres

Durand, P.; Durand-Deska, A.; Gubrynowicz, R.; Marek, B.: Polish: Prosodic Aspects of "Czy" Questions

Ehrette, T.; Chateau, N.; d'Alessandro, C.; Maffiolo, V.: Prosodic Parameters of Perceived Emotions in Vocal Server Voices

Elordieta, G.; Romera, M.: Prosody and Meaning in Interaction: The Case of the Spanish Discourse Functional Unit entonces 'then'

Erdem, C.; Zimmermann, H.G.: Soft Input Feature Selection within Neural Prosody Generation

Erdem, C.; Zimmermann, H.G.: Duration Control by Asymmetric Causal Retro-Causal Neural Networks

Eriksson, A.; Grabe, E.; Traunmüller, H.: Perception of Syllable Prominence by Listeners With and Without Competence in the Tested Language

Fagyal, Z.: Tonal Template for Background Information: The Scaling of Pitch in Utterance-Medial Parentheticals in French

Fant, G.; Kruckenberg, A.; Gustafson, K.; Liljencrants. J.: A New Approach to Intonation Analysis and Synthesis of Swedish

Faraco, M.; Kida, T.; Barbier, M.-L.; Piolat, A.: Didactic Prosody and Notetaking in L1 and L2

Fernandez, R.; Picard, R.W.: Dialog Act Classification from Prosodic Features Using Support Vector Machines

Fletcher, J.; Evans, N.; Round, E.: Left-Edge Tonal Events in Kayardild (Australian): A Typological Perspective

Fletcher, J.; Wales, R.; Stirling, L.; Mushin, I.: A Dialogue Act Analysis of Rises in Australian English Map Task dialogues

Francuzik, K.; Karpinski, M.; Klesta, J.A.: A Preliminary Study of the Intonational Phrase, Nuclear Melody and Pauses in Polish Semi-Spontaneous Narration

Fretheim, T.; van Dommelen, W.A.: Norwegian Intonation and the Resolution of Concessive Anaphora

Friedrich, C.; Kotz, S.A.; Friederici, A.D.; Alter, K.: Pitch Contour Guides Spoken Word Recognition

Frota, S.: The Prosody of Focus: A Case-Study with Cross-Linguistic Implications [Link to sound examples]

Frota, S.; Vigário, M.; Martins, F.: Language Discrimination and Rhythm Classes: Evidence from Portuguese

Galves, A.; Garcia, J.E.; Duarte, D.; Galves, C.: Sonority as a Basis for Rhythmic Class Discrimination

Garcia, J.E.; Gut, U.B.; Galves, A.: Vocale - A Semi-Automatic Annotation Tool for Prosodic Research

Ghazali, S.; Hamdi, R.; Barkat, M.: Speech Rhythm Variation in Arabic Dialects

Gibbon, D.: Prosodic Information in an Integrated Lexicon

Gili Fivela, B.: Tonal Alignment in Two Pisa Italian Peak Accents

Grabe, E.; Post, B.: Intonational Variation in the British Isles

Granström, B.A.; House, D.; Swerts, M.G.: Multimodal Feedback Cues in Human-Machine Interactions

Greenberg, S.; Carvey, H.; Hitchcock, L.: The Relation Between Stress Accent and Pronunciation Variation in Spontaneous American English Discourse

Grønnum, N.; Basbøll, H.: Stød and Length : Acoustic and Cognitive reality?

Gubrynowicz, R.: A Study of Speech Prosody of Subjects with Profound Hearing Loss Recorded at Child Age and 20 Years Later

Gustafson-Capková, S.; Megyesi, B.: Silence and Discourse Context in Read Speech and Dialogues in Swedish

Gut, U.B.; Milde, J.-T.: The Prosody of Nigerian English

Hansson, P.A.: Articulation Rate Variation in South Swedish Phrases

Hedberg, N.A.; Sosa, J.M.: The Prosody of Questions in Natural Discourse

Herment-Dujardin, S.; Hirst, D.J.: Emphasis in English: A Perceptual Study based on Modified Synthetic Speech

Herry, N.; Hirst, D.J.: Subjective and Objective Evaluation of the Prosody of English Spoken by French Speakers: the Contribution of Computer Assisted Learning

Hind, A.: Metrical Patterns and Melodicity in English Contrasted with French

Hirose, K.; Minematsu, N.; Eto, M.: Data-Driven Synthesis of Fundamental Frequency Contours for TTS Systems Based on a Generation Process Model

Hirose, K.; Minematsu, N.; Terao, M.: N-gram Language Modeling of Japanese Using Prosodic Boundaries

Holm, B.; Bailly, G.: Learning the Hidden Structure of Intonation: Implementing Various Functions of Prosody

Hu, F.: A Prosodic Analysis of Wh-words in Standard Chinese

Ishi, C.T.; Hirose, K.; Minematsu, N.: Using Perceptually-related F0- and Power-based Parameters to identify Accent Types of Accentual Phrases

Ito, K.: Ambiguity in Broad Focus and Narrow Focus Interpretation in Japanese [Link to sound examples]

Ito, M.: Japanese Politeness and Suprasegmentals: A Study based on Natural Speech Materials

Kang, S.; Speer, S.R.: Prosody and Clause Boundaries in Korean [Link to sound examples]

Kehrein, R.: The Prosody of Authentic Emotions [Link to sound examples]

Kida, T.: Prosody - A Laughing Matter? A Crosscultural Comparison of a Humour Phenomenon (Rakugo ) in France,Tokyo,and Osaka

Kiriyama, S.; Hirose, K.; Minematsu, N.: Control of Prosodic Focuses for Reply Speech Generation in a Spoken Dialogue System of Information Retrieval on Academic Documents

Kitazawa, S.; Kitamura, T.; Mochizuki, K.; Itoh, T.: Periodicity of Japanese Accent in Continuous Speech

Knight, R.-A.: The Effect of Pitch Span on Intonational Plateaux

Krahmer, E.; Ruttkay, Z.; Swerts, M.G.; Wesselink, W.: Pitch, Eyebrows and the Perception of Focus

Lacheret-Dujour, A.: The Intonational Marking of Topical Salience in Spontaneous Speech: Evidence from Spoken French

Lee, W.; Chen, F.; Luke, K.K.; Shen, L.: The Prosody of Bisyllabic and Polysyllabic Words in Hong Kong Cantonese

Le Gac, D.: Tonal Alternations and Prosodic Structure in Somali

Lim, L.; Ansaldo, U.: Prosodic Erosion as a Diagnostic of Grammaticalisation in Isolating Languages: Tone and Stress in Sinitic

Louali, N.; Mettouchi, A.: Structures intonatives en berbère: l'énoncé prédicatif à particule d-

Man, V.C.: Focus Effects on Cantonese Tones: An Acoustic Study

Marandin, J.-M.; Beyssade, C.; Delais-Roussarie, E.; Rialland, A.: Discourse Marking in French: C Accents and Discourse Moves

Marotta, G.: L'intonation des énoncés interrogatifs ouverts dans l'italien toscan

Martel, K.: Mutual Knowledge and Prosody in Young Children

Martin, P.: Regional Variations of Sentence Intonation in French: The Continuation Contour in Parisian French

Mayer, J.; Wildgruber, D.; Riecker, A.; Dogil, G.; Ackermann, H.; Grodd, W.: Prosody Production and Perception: Converging Evidence from fMRI Studies

Mejvaldova, J.; Horak, P.: Synonymie et homonymie attitudinale en tchèque et en français [Link to sound examples]

Menezes, C.M.; Erickson, D.M.; Fujimura, O.: Contrastive Emphasis: Comparison of Pitch Accents with Syllable Magnitudes

Mertens, P.: Synthesizing Elaborate Intonation Contours in Text-to-Speech for French

Milde, J.-T.; Gut, U.B.: A Prosodic Corpus of Non-Native Speech

Minematsu, N.; Sekiguchi, M.; Hirose, K.: Performance Improvement in Estimating Subjective Agedness with Prosodic Features

Mixdorff, H.; Amir, N.: The Prosody of Modern Hebrew: A Quantitative Study

Mixdorff, H.; Vainio, M.T.; Werner, S.; Järvikivi, J.: The Manifestation of Linguistic Information in Prosodic Features of Finnish

Miyamoto, T.; Johnson, C.: Accentual Phrasing in Japanese: The Significance of Underlying Accents

Möbius, B.; Dogil, G.: Phonemic and Postural Effects on the Production of Prosody

Navas, E.; Hernaez, I.; Ezeiza, N.: Assigning Phrase Breaks Using CARTs for Basque TTS

Nesterenko, I.: French Listeners Counting Syllables in Read French and Russian: Implications for the Cognitive Reality of Syllable

Nilsenova, M.: A Game-theoretical Approach to the Meaning of Intonation in Rising Declaratives and Negative Polar Questions

Oliveira, M.: Pausing Strategies as Means of Information Processing in Spontaneous Narratives

den Ouden, H.; Noordman, L.; Terken, J.: The Prosodic Realization of Organizational Features of Texts

Oudeyer, P.-Y.: Novel Useful Features and Algorithms for the Recognition of Emotions in Human Speech

Oudeyer, P.-Y.: The Synthesis of Cartoon Emotional Speech

Pan, H.-H.: The Location of F0 Offset Targets for Taiwanese Long Tones

Payà Canals, M.: Incidental Clauses in Spoken Catalan: Prosodic Characteristics and Pragmatic Function [Link to sound examples]

Pellegrino, F.; Chauchat, J.-H.; Rakotomalala, R.; Farinas, J.: Can Automatically Extracted Rhythmic Units Discriminate Among Languages?

Peters, J.: Tonal Effects on Rhythm in West Middle German

Pietrosemoli, L.E.; Mora, E.: Dysprosody in Three Patients with Vascular Cerebral Damage

Piot, O.; Lyaghat, M.: Expression et reconnaissance de onze attitudes assertives et interrogatives en persan standard

Portes, C.; Rami, E.; Auran, C.; Di Cristo, A.: Prosody and Discourse: A Multilinear Analysis

Post, B.: French Tonal Structures

Prieto, P.: Coarticulation and Stability Effects in Tonal Clash Contexts in Catalan

Qian, Y.; Pan, W.: Prosody Word: The Lowest Constituent in the Mandarin Prosody Processing

Rialland, A.; Doetjes, J.; Rebuschi, G.: What is Focused in C'est XP qui/que Cleft Sentences in French?

Riecker, A.; Wildgruber, D.; Dogil, G.; Mayer, J.; Ackermann, H.; Grodd, W.: Hemispheric Lateralization Effects of Rhythm Implementation During Syllable Repetitions: A fMRI Study

Rietveld, T.; Kerkhoff, J.: The Temporal Alignment of L*H Accents

Rilliard, A.; Aubergé, V.: Towards a Linguistic Validation of a Prosodic Generation Model

Rolland, G.; L¦venbruck, H.: Characteristics of the Accentual Phrase in French: An Acoustic, Articulatory and Perceptual Study

Salvo Rossi, P.; Palmieri, F.; Cutugno, F.: A Method for Automatic Extraction of Fujisaki-Model Parameters

Sander, K.; Roth, P.; Scheich, H.: The Identification of Sad Prosodies Differentiates between High and Low Repressive Women

Sauerland, U.; Bott, O.: Prosody and Scope in German Inverse Linking Constructions

Schaeffler, F.; Wretling, P.; Strangert, E.: On the Development of a Quantity Typology for Swedish Dialects

Schirmer, A.; Kotz, S.A.: Sex Differentiates the STROOP-Effect in Emotional Speech: ERP Evidence

Schön, D.; Magne, C.; Schrooten, M.; Besson, M.: The Music of Speech: Electrophysiological Approach

Schweitzer, A.; Braunschweiler, N.; Morais, E.: Prosody Generation in the SmartKom Project

Selkirk, E.: Contrastive FOCUS vs.Presentational Focus : Prosodic Evidence from Right Node Raising in English

Simon, A.C.; Grobet, A.: Intégration ou autonomisation prosodique des connecteurs

Smirnova, N.S.: On the Phonological Status of the HL*H vs. H*LH Timing-Related Tonal Opposition in Dutch

Sugahara, M.: Conditions on Post-FOCUS Dephrasing in Tokyo Japanese

Thurgood, E.: The Recognition of Geminates in Ambiguous Contexts in Polish

Todd, R.: Speaker-Ethnicity: Attributions Based on the Use of Prosodic Cues

Tseng, C.-Y.: The Prosodic Status of Breaks in Running Speech: Examination and Evaluation

Ulbrich, C.: A Comparative Study of Intonation in Three Standard Varieties of German

Venditti, J.J.; Stone, M.; Nanda, P.; Tepper, P.A.: Discourse Constraints on the Interpretation of Nuclear-accented Pronouns

Viallet, F.; Teston, B.; Jankowski, L.; Purson, A.; Peragut, J.-C.; Regis, J.; Witjas, T.: Effects of Pharmacological versus Electrophysiological Treatments on Parkinsonian Dysprosody [Link to sound examples]

Vizcaino Ortega, F.: A Preliminary Analysis of Yes/No Questions in Glasgow English

Wagner, P.S.; Fischenbeck, E.M.: Stress Production and Perception in German Stress Clash Environments

Watanabe, M.: Fillers as Indicators of Discourse Segment Boundaries in Japanese Monologues

Welby, P.: The Realization of Early and Late Rises in French Intonation: A Production Study

Wendt, B.; Scheich, H.: The "Magdeburger Prosodie-Korpus"

Wretling, P.; Strangert, E.; Schaeffler, F.: Quantity and Preaspiration in Northern Swedish Dialects

Yang, Y.F.; Wang, B.: Acoustic Correlates of Hierarchical Prosodic Boundary in Mandarin

Yuan, J.; Shih, C.; Kochanski, G.P.: Comparison of Declarative and Interrogative Intonation in Chinese

Yuen, I.: Tonal Invariance and Downtrend in Cantonese

Zaki, A.; Rajouani, A.; Luxey, Z.; Najim, M.: Rules Based Model for Automatic Synthesis of F0 Variation for Declarative Arabic Sentences

Zee, E.: The Effect of Speech Rate on the Temporal Organization of Syllable Production in Cantonese

Zellner Keller, B.: Revisiting the Status of Speech Rhythm

Zetterholm, E.: Intonation Pattern and Duration Differences in Imitated Speech

Zharkova, N.: Acquisition of Prosody in Russian

Zu, Y.; Zheng, H.: Effect of Prosodic Structure on Segmental Variants

Editors of the Proceedings: Bernard Bel & Isabelle Marlien

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Papers

INVITED PAPERS

Oral session, 11 April 2002 -- Prosody and Emotion

Oral session, 11 April 2002 -- Prosody and Speech Technology

Oral session, 12 April 2002 -- Prosody and Syntactic, Semantic, Pragmatic Interpretation

Oral session, 12 April 2002 -- Prosody and the Brain

Oral session, 13 April 2002 -- Lexical Prosody and Phonemic Alignment

Oral session, 13 April 2002 -- Prosody and Linguistic Typology

SUBMITTED PAPERS