Over the past decade, fluent reading has come to be seen as a central component of skilled
reading and a driving force in the literacy curriculum. However, much of this focus has …

Prosody conveys information about the linguistic context of an utterance at every level of
linguistic organisation, from the word up to the discourse context. Acoustic correlates of …

The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of text difficulty on the oral reading
prosody of young children. Fluency in reading is ideally determined by measuring rate …

This study characterizes the speech tempo (articulation rate, excluding pauses) of two
distinct varieties of American English taking into account both between-speaker and within …

Research on pause duration has mainly focused on the impact of syntactic structure on the
duration of pauses within an utterance and on the impact of syntax, discourse, and prosodic …

Incorporating cognitive, neuropsychological, and sociocultural perspectives, this
authoritative text explains the psychological processes involved in reading and describes …

Recent advancements in neural end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) models have shown high-
quality, natural synthesized speech in a conventional sentence-based TTS. However, it is …

This paper reports an experimental investigation of the prosodic encoding of topic and focus
in Mandarin by examining disyllabic subject nouns elicited in four discourse contexts. These …

Reading prosody is considered one of the essential markers of reading fluency, alongside
accuracy and speed. The aim of our study was to investigate how development of reading …

The purposes of the study were to determine whether third grade children mark linguistic
focus features in their reading prosody and whether strong marking of these linguistic focus …