Corpora: Book: Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology

[Jean Veronis]

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                        KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
                   TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
                               Volume 15
              Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis




                              INTONATION
                  Analysis, Modelling and Technology
                              edited by
                           Antonis Botinis
      University of Skövde, Sweden, and University of Athens, Greece




The volume Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology covers the main 
aspects of intonation, written by international researchers in the field. 
Following the Introduction, fourteen chapters are organised into five 
thematic sections: Overview of Intonation, Prominence and Focus, Boundaries 
and Discourse, Intonation Modelling and Intonation Technology.

Each chapter is basically autonomous within a thematic section, but the 
subject of several chapters extends over more than one thematic section. 
The combination of a wide range of research areas, as well as 
interdisciplinary approaches in the study of intonation, makes this volume 
a unique contribution to the international scientific community.

Basic knowledge of Intonation and Prosody is assumed in the context of 
linguistic and computational backgrounds. Readers may range from students 
of advanced undergraduate to postgraduate and research levels as well as 
individual researchers within a variety of disciplines such as Experimental 
Phonetics, General and Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, and 
SpeechLanguage Engineering.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht

Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6605-0
October 2000, 408 pp.
NLG 320.00 / USD 156.00 / GBP 99.00

Paperback, ISBN 0-7923-6723-5
October 2000, 408 pp.
NLG 110.00 / USD 54.00 / GBP 34.00


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CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS


List of contributors.
Acknowledgements.

1. Introduction; A. Botinis.

SECTION I: OVERVIEW OF INTONATION.

2. Intonation: Past, Present, Future; M. Rossi.

SECTION II: PROMINENCE AND FOCUS.

3. Acoustic-phonetic Analysis of Prominence in Swedish; G. Fant, et al.

4. Prosodic Disambiguation in English and Italian; J. Hirschberg, C. Avesani.

5. Contrastive Tonal Analysis of Focus Perception in Greek and Swedish; A. 
Botinis, et al.

SECTION III: BOUNDARIES AND DISCOURSE.

6. Phonetic Correlates of Statement versus Question Intonation in Dutch; 
V.J. van Heuven, J. Haan.

7. Pitch Movements and Information Structure in Spontaneous Dutch 
Discourse; M. van
Donzel, F. Koopmans-van Beinum.

8. Discourse Constraints on F0 Peak Timing in English; A. Wichmann, et al.

SECTION IV: INTONATION MODELLING.

9. Automatic Stylisation and Modelling of French and Italian Intonation; E.
Campione, et al.

10. A Phonological Model of French Intonation; S.-A. Jun, C. Fougeron.

11. A Declination Model of Mandarin Chinese; C. Shih.

12. A Quantitative Model of F0 Generation and Alignment; J.P.H. van Santen, B.
Möbius.

SECTION V: INTONATION TECHNOLOGY.

13. Modelling of Swedish Text and Discourse Intonation in a Speech 
Synthesis Framework; G. Bruce, et al.

14. A Prosodic Model for Text-to-speech Synthesis in French; A. Di Cristo,
et al.

15. Prosodic Parameters of French in a Speech Recognition System;
K. Bartkova.

Subject index.
Index of names.

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