This paper investigates the use of multidistribution deep neural networks (DNNs) for
mispronunciation detection and diagnosis (MDD), to circumvent the difficulties encountered …

The relationship between syntactic and prosodic phrase structures is investigated in the
production and perception of spontaneous speech. Three hypotheses are tested:(1) syntax …

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 …

This article introduces micro‐prosody as the study of the duration and timing of speech
events. We present a descriptive framework, formalising micro‐prosody in terms of gestural …

The importance of pitch range variation for intonational meaning and theory is well known;
however, whether pitch range is a phonetic dimension which is treated categorically in …

Speech utterances are more than the linear concatenation of individual phonemes or words.
They are organized by prosodic structures comprising phonological units of different sizes …

Communicating meaning is a primary goal of everyday language use. One significant puzzle
in the study of linguistic comprehension is that the meaning communicated via language …

In this thesis we address the challenge of automatically summarizing spontaneous, multi-
party spoken dialogues. The experimental hypothesis is that it is advantageous when …

Within the scope of the SPACE project, the CHildren's Oral REading Corpus (CHOREC) is
developed. This database contains recorded, transcribed and annotated read speech (42 …

An analysis is presented on the rate of inter-speaker consistency in the way multiple
speakers realize prosodic events when they read the same scripts. The analysis is made on …