So, to take an example used by Susan Hunston of the University of Birmingham in her article “Semantic Prosody Revisited,” the word persistent often occurs with a following noun in negative contexts. We find examples like persistent errors, persistent intimidation, persistent offenders, persistent ...
Table 1 Examples of given target sentences. Full size table There were 24 unique sentences in Group 1, 8 unique sentences in Group 2, 8 unique sentences in Group 3, and 16 unique sentences in Group 4. Each target sentence was potentially ambiguous (Table 1), and participants were provided...
for i, sentence in enumerate(sentences): if re.match(_japanese_characters, sentence): p = pyopenjtalk.g2p(sentence) text += p.split(" ") if with_prosody: text += pyopenjtalk_g2p_prosody(sentence)[1:-1] else: p = pyopenjtalk.g2p(sentence) text += p.split(" ") if i < ...
Here, we analyze nearly 10,000 such examples from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), using mixed-effects logistic regression to determine the respective contributions of a range of factors including phrasal complexity, wordform frequency and predictability, and prosody in predicting to...
featuresofsemanticprosody:functionality,linguisticchoiceandcommunicativepurpose.Sinclairinsiststhatpeopleshouldconsiderthesemanticpreferencewhentheychoosinglexicalitemstomakereasonablesentences.MichaelStubbs(1996)thengivesaclassificationofsemanticprosody,whichcanbedividedintothreetypes:positive,negativeandneutral.Forawordbear⁃...
Table 1 Examples of given target sentences. Full size table There were 24 unique sentences in Group 1, 8 unique sentences in Group 2, 8 unique sentences in Group 3, and 16 unique sentences in Group 4. Each target sentence was potentially ambiguous (Table 1), and participants were provided...
This may be done using any suitable audio file manipulation method, examples of which are known. Like the analysis of the example text, the corresponding audio segmentation may be done within prosody prediction system 100 in some embodiments, and may be done by a separate system to create a ...
Examples of these two types of research are compared to a gold, intonationally annotated set of Romanian sentences, the proposed theoretical and procedural ... N Curteanu,D Trandabat,MA Moruz - Conference on Speech Technology & Human-computer Dialogue 被引量: 9发表: 2009年 ...
Prosody refers to characteristics that contribute to the melodic and rhythmic vividness of speech. Some examples of these characteristics include pitch, loudness, and syllabic duration. Concatenative speech synthesis systems that use a small unit inventory typically have a prosody-prediction component (as...
Stimuli were recorded with default contrastive or broad focus intonation: each test sentence consisted of one intonational phrase (IP) with no IP-medial intermediate phrases. Sentences with contrastive focus had a nuclear L+H* pitch accent on the focused word followed by de-accenting (Pierre...