In phonetics, many datasets are encountered which deal with dynamic data collected over
time. Examples include diphthongal formant trajectories and articulator trajectories observed …

Reading is a foundational skill and the focus of school-level education efforts across
countries. The assessment of linguistic competence from oral reading has long been the …

The role of prosody in the encoding of information structure in Egyptian Arabic is not yet fully
understood. A recent production study found significant acoustic differences between …

This paper investigates the prosody of sentences elicited in three Information Structure (IS)
conditions: all-new, theme-rheme and rhematic focus-background. The sentences were …

Prosody is the supra-segmental aspect of speech that helps to convey the structure and
intended meaning of lexical content unambiguously. The automatic detection of prosodic …

The evaluation of oral reading skills is considered an important component of language
education in school. Compared with word decoding skill, prosodic fluency typically takes …

This dissertation investigates the effects of prosodic prominence and markedness on the
perception of Bengali stops. Both these issues have been studied in the past from the …

The prosodic feature study gives insight into the suprasegmental properties of speech.
Researchers have been studying acoustic features of prosody worldwide to design a model …

In the Marathi language, this paper seeks to acoustically evaluate acting speech for anger,
happiness, fear, and neutral emotions. We recorded ten Marathi sentences by eleven …

In this study, we examine the effect of shifts in fundamental frequency (F0) on the perception
of narrow focus (NF). F0 was manipulated systematically on the first word in a subject …