Corpora: Book: Prosody (Merle Horne)

[Jean Veronis]

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                        KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
                   TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
                               Volume 14
              Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis




                      PROSODY: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT
                     Studies Presented to Gösta Bruce

                               edited by

                              Merle Horne
                  Dept. of Linguistics and Phonetics
                        Lund University, Sweden



The study of prosody is perhaps the area of speech research which has 
undergone the most noticeable development during the past ten to fifteen 
years. This book contains contributions by 15 internationally recognized 
experts (including M. Beckman, N. Campbell, C. Gussenhoven, J. Hirschberg, 
D. Hirst, D.R. Ladd, M. Ostendorf, J. Pierrehumbert, E. Selkirk, S. 
Shattuck-Hufnagel, and J. Terken) in different areas of prosody which 
provide readers with the most current and comprehensive picture of the 
major areas of research within the field. The contributions not only 
provide a survey of major developments in prosody during the past 1520 
years, but also present ongoing work as well as point to areas where future 
research is needed. The chapters deal with a wide range of topics including 
the representation of tones and intonation, evidence for and constraints on 
prosodic phrasing, prosodic boundary detection, articulatory dynamics of 
stress, timing in speech, and prosodic correlates of speaking style, as 
well as the perception of prosodic prominence.

The book offers investigators in all areas of speech communication 
(phonetics, phonology, speech technology) with a comprehensive and coherent 
presentation of contemporary prosodic research.



Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6579-8
August 2000, 364 pp.
NLG 290.00 / USD 153.00 / GBP 95.00

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CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Introduction; M. Horne.

1. Tonal Elements and Their Alignment; J. Pierrehumbert.

2. Bruce, Pierrehumbert, and the Elements of Intonational Phonology; D. 
Robert Ladd.

3. Levels of Representation and Levels of Analysis for the Description of 
Intonation Systems; D. Hirst, et al.

4. The Perception of Prosodic Prominence; J. Terken, D. Hermes.

5. The Lexical Tone Contrast of Roermond Dutch in Optimality Theory; C. 
Gussenhoven.

6. Modeling the Articulatory Dynamics of two Levels of Stress Contrast; 
M.E. Beckman, K.B. Cohen.

7. Phrase-Level Phonology in Speech Production Planning: Evidence for the 
Role of Prosodic Structure; S. Shattuck-Hufnagel.

8. The Interaction of Constraints on Prosodic Phrasing; E. Selkirk.

9. Prosodic Boundary Detection; M. Ostendorf.

10. Timing in Speech: A Multi-Level Process; N. Campbell.

11. A Corpus-Based Approach to the Study of Speaking Style; J. Hirschberg.


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                            PREVIOUS VOLUMES


    Volume 1:  Recent Advances in Parsing Technology
               Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita (Eds.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996

    Volume 2:  Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
               Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft (Eds.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997

    Volume 3:  An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis
               Thierry Dutoit
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997

    Volume 4:  Exploring textual data
               Ludovic Lebart, André Salem and Lisette Berry
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997

    Volume 5:  Time Map Phonology:
               Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech
               Recognition
               Julie Carson-Berndsen
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997

    Volume 6:  Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in
               Lexical Knowledge Bases
               Patrick Saint-Dizier (Ed.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0, December 1998

    Volume 7:  Natural Language Information Retrieval
               Tomek Strzalkowski (Ed.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999

    Volume 8:  Techniques in Speech Acoustics
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    Volume 9:  Syntactic Wordclass Tagging
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    Volume 10: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons
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               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7, November 1999

    Volume 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora
               Armstrong, S., Church, K.W., Isabelle, P.,
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