With recent advances in generative modelling, conversational systems are becoming more
lifelike and capable of long, nuanced interactions. Text-to-Speech (TTS) is being tested in …

Converting input symbols to output audio in TTS requires modelling the durations of speech
sounds. Leading non-autoregressive (NAR) TTS models treat duration modelling as a …

It is well documented that in English falling contours are associated with final statements and
rising contours with yes-no questions and continuation. Our analyses of the speech of native …

This paper presents a novel account of the distribution of the null complementizer (C) in
English, arguing that the licensing of null C is a case of prosodically conditioned allomorphy …

Abstract Information structure deals with the question of how—and specifically, in what order—
we choose to present the informational content of a proposition. In English and many other …

This paper focuses on rising contours in English read speech. Our hypothesis is that they
are very few in this particular speech style. This is confirmed by quantitative and qualitative …

Traditionnellement, la clivée en wh-est étudiée au regard de la clivée en it. Ceci est
notamment le cas dans les ouvrages à destination des étudiants chez Gardelle et Lacassain …

This paper presents a corpus study of four non-canonical English structures used for
information packaging–extrapositions, right dislocations, it-clefts, wh-clefts. We study the …

Mes recherches se situent en prosodie, suivant la tradition du Laboratoire Parole et
Langage à Aix-en-Provence (avec Mario Rossi, Albert Di Cristo, Daniel Hirst, Mariapaola …

Ce chapitre présente l'étude de structures syntaxiques de focalisation–extrapositions,
dislocations à droite, clivées en it, pseudo-clivées, pseudo-clivées renversées et do appelé …