Acoustic correlates of focus in Marathi: Production and perception

Rao, Preeti; Sanghvi, Niramay; Mixdorff, Hansjörg; Sabu, Kamini

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2017.07.002

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“…Most papers investigated vowel formant measurements in speech production (Hay, Podlubny, Drager, & McAuliffe, 2017;Hualde, Luchkina, & Eager, 2017;Hübscher, Borràs-Comes, & Prieto, 2017;Ots, 2017;Rao, Sanghvi, Mixdorff, & Sabu, 2017;Yang & Fox, 2017). The authors of these papers either analyzed formant measurements at pre-selected time points (Hualde et al, 2017;Yang & Fox, 2017), average formant measurements (Hay et al, 2017;Hübscher et al, 2017), or simplified descriptions of formant contours (Ots, 2017;Rao et al, 2017). Another type of dynamic data, articulatory measurements (analyzed at the vowel midpoint), was analyzed by Pastätter and Pouplier (2017).…”

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Analyzing dynamic phonetic data using generalized additive mixed modeling: A tutorial focusing on articulatory differences between L1 and L2 speakers of English

Wieling

2018

Journal of Phonetics

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Analyzing dynamic phonetic data using generalized additive mixed modeling: A tutorial focusing on articulatory differences between L1 and L2 speakers of English

Wieling

2018

Journal of Phonetics

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“…Beckman & Pierrehumbert 1986;Pierrehumbert & Beckman 1988;Fujisaki & Kawai 1988;Maekawa 1999;Kubozono 2007;Venditti et al 2008;Ishihara 2011Ishihara , 2015, Korean (Hwang 2006;Lee 2007;Hwang 2011;Kim & Jun 2009), or Mandarin (Xu 1999;Gu et al 2003;Liu & Xu 2005;Chen & Gussenhoven 2008;Lee et al 2016). Besides, the existence of the consequential cross-linguistic tendencies with respect to wh-questions is not obvious either: for instance, Amharic has stress-accent (Haile 1987) but also wh-in-situ (Eilam 2008), as do Pashto (Tegey & Robson 1996;David 2014), Uyghur (Yakup & Sereno 2016;Major 2014), Marathi (Wali 2005;Rao et al 2017;Dhongde & Wali 2009), or Ancash Qechua (Hintz 2006;Cole & Hermon 1994). Actually, Basque is illuminating in this respect.…”

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Dessintactitzar la sintaxi? Preocupacions sobre l’arquitectura de la gramàtica i el paper dels components d’interfície

Irurtzun¹

2019

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This article discusses different ways in which interface components could potentially affect syntax (or what have traditionally been analysed as syntactic phenomena). I will distinguish four types of potential effects that the interface components could have onto syntax: (i) no real interaction, since almost nothing pertains to syntax: everything (beyond Merge) is externalization; (ii) computations at interface components actively affect the syntactic computation; (iii) Properties of interface representations function to inform biases for language acquisition; (iv) interface components impose Bare Output Conditions (legibility conditions) that constrain the range of possible syntactic representations at the interface. I argue that the first two are problematic, whereas the latter two may help us understanding a range of universal and variable phenomena. Resum. Dessintactitzar la sintaxi? Preocupacions sobre l'arquitectura de la gramàtica i el paper dels components d'interfícieAquest article tracta diferents maneres en què els components de la interfície poden afectar potencialment la sintaxi (o tradicionalment analitzats com a fenòmens sintàctics). Distingiré quatre tipus d'efectes potencials que els components de la interfície poden tenir sobre la sintaxi: (i) no hi ha interacció real, ja que gairebé res no pertoca a la sintaxi: tot (més enllà de combinar) és externalització; (ii) els càlculs dels components de la interfície afecten activament la computació sintàctica; (iii) les propietats de les representacions d'interfície funcionen per informar els biaixos per a l'adquisició d'idiomes; (iv) els components de la interfície imposen condicions de sortida nua (condicions de llegibilitat) que restringeixen el rang de representacions sintàctiques possibles a la interfície. Jo argumento que els dos primers són problemàtics, mentre que els dos últims poden ajudar-nos a comprendre una gamma universal i variable de fenòmens.

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“…German speakers are found to use both intensity and pitch accents [18]. In our previous work on Marathi speech, we found that segment duration is the dominant local cue to focus in Indo-Aryan languages accompanied by post focal compression of F0 span [19].…”

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Detection of Prominent Words in Oral Reading by Children

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Rao²

2018

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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 children much longer to achieve. Prosodic fluency, however, is linked to comprehension making its evaluation very useful in an automatic reading assessment system. We consider the detection of prominent words in recordings of oral reading by children, who display good word recognition but varying degrees of prosodic fluency. The manual annotation of prominent words proves to be relatively challenging, likely due to inconsistencies by our speakers with respect to top-down lexical cues. Acousticprosodic features drawn from prominence detection research on adult speech are tested on the annotated data using a random forest classifier. Normalized maximum syllable duration and F0 (fundamental frequency) derived features turn out to be important predictors of word prominence with their relative importances being highly speaker dependent.

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Acoustic correlates of focus in Marathi: Production and perception

Cited by 11 publications

References 26 publications

Analyzing dynamic phonetic data using generalized additive mixed modeling: A tutorial focusing on articulatory differences between L1 and L2 speakers of English

Analyzing dynamic phonetic data using generalized additive mixed modeling: A tutorial focusing on articulatory differences between L1 and L2 speakers of English

Dessintactitzar la sintaxi? Preocupacions sobre l’arquitectura de la gramàtica i el paper dels components d’interfície

Detection of Prominent Words in Oral Reading by Children

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