The recognition of spoken language has typically been studied by focusing on either words
or their constituent elements (for example, low-level features or phonemes). More recently …

The proliferation of the Internet of Things has increased reliance on voice-controlled devices
to perform everyday tasks. Although these devices rely on accurate speech recognition for …

'Uptalk'is commonly used to refer to rising intonation at the end of declarative sentences, or
(to put it more simply) the tendency for people to make statements that sound like questions …

Speech prosody, the melodic and rhythmic properties of a language, plays a critical role in
our everyday communication. Researchers have identified unique patterns of prosody that …

This study presents a method for analyzing speech rhythm using empirical mode
decomposition of the speech amplitude envelope, which allows for extraction and …

This chapter evaluates the available evidence on the question of whether Outer Circle
varieties of English tend to be more syllable-timed than Inner Circle varieties. Although a …

Page 1 Dalgſave macmillan Speech Rate, Pause, and Sociolinguistic Variation Studies in
Corpus Sociophonetics Tyler Kendall Page 2 Speech Rate, Pause, and Sociolinguistic Variation …

This article argues for a focus on affect in sociolinguistic style. I integrate recent scholarship
on affective practice (Wetherell 2015) and the circulation of affective value (Ahmed 2004b) in …

Few studies on voice perception have attempted to address the complexity of gender
perception of ambiguous voices. The current study investigated how perception of gender …

Speech prosody plays an important role in communication of meaning. The cognitive and
computational mechanisms supporting this communication remain to be understood …