Research on prosody has recently become an important focus in various disciplines,
including Linguistics, Psychology, and Computer Science. This article reviews recent …

This paper reviews research on the production of referential expressions, examining the
choice between explicit and attenuated lexical forms (eg, pronouns vs. names), and …

The perception of prosodic prominence in spontaneous speech is investigated through an
online task of prosody transcription using untrained listeners. Prominence is indexed …

Although the presence or absence of a pitch accent clearly can play an important role in
signaling the discourse and information structure of an utterance, whether the form of an …

Speech synthesis applications have become an ubiquity, in navigation systems, digital
assistants or as screen or audio book readers. Despite their impact on the acceptability of …

This study tests the influence of acoustic cues and non-acoustic contextual factors on
listeners' perception of prominence in three languages whose prominence systems differ in …

We examine the referential choices (pronouns/zeros vs. names/descriptions) made during a
narrative by high-functioning children and adolescents with autism and a well-matched …

The repetition and the predictability of a word in a conversation are two factors that are
believed to affect whether it is emphasized: Predictable, repeated words are less …

Speech researchers often rely on human annotation of prosody to generate data to test
hypotheses and generate models. We present an overview of two prosodic annotation …

Although there is consistent evidence that higher levels of processing, such as learning the
form-meaning associations specific to the second language (L2), are a source of difficulty in …