This study investigates the relationship between signal-based factors and discourse context
in the production and perception of prominence, extending prior work on prominence in …

This study investigates the occurrence of co-speech gestures as a function of prosodic
prominence (pitch accents) and discourse meaning (information status) in a clear and …

Most consumers do not like the speech style that announcers use in marketing messages.
The main reason is an exaggerated way of speaking with a strong emphasis. Indeed …

This study examines the contribution of constituent order, prosody, and information structure
to the perception of word-level prominence in Russian, a free word order language …

How do speakers accommodate distracted listeners? Specifically, how does prosody
change when speakers know that their addressees are multitasking? Speakers might use …

This study examines prosody in read productions of two published narratives by 15 Russian
speakers. Two distinct sources of variation in acoustic-prosodic expression are considered …

This study examined how toddler looking to a discourse referent is mediated by the
information status of the referent and the pitch contour of the referring expression. Eighteen …

This dissertation examines second language (L2) use of prosody to convey and
comprehend Information Structure. In English, contrastive information and new information …

With the emergence of the HMM-synthesis paradigm, producing natural, expressive prosody
has become viable in speech synthesis. This paper describes the development of rule …