Prosody: Intonation models

SoSe 2012, Möbius (Seminar, 2 SWS)
M.Sc. Language Science and Technology
Magister Phonetik

Thu 10.15-11.45, C7.2/5.09

Entrance requirements

M.Sc. LST: Speech Science
Magister Hauptstudium

Course description

Prosody research is quite diverse and controversial concerning theoretical approaches and methologies. In this seminar, the most important intonation models will be presented and discussed, with respect to both their phonological and phonetic assumptions and their implementation and application to speech processing systems (speech synthesis, speech recognition). Participants will read, present, and discuss selected papers.

Course credits

M.Sc.: 7 CP (presentation and paper) or 4 CP (presentation only)
Mag.: 8 SP (presentation and paper) or 4 SP (presentation only)

Active participation on a regular basis required.

Structure

Date	Topic	Papers / Slides	Presented by
10.05.	Introduction; Organization	Botinis/etal:2001	Möbius
24.05.	Intonation models: Overview I	Fujisaki:1988, Möbius:1995	Möbius
14.06.	Intonation models: Overview II	Silverman/etal:1992, Grice/Baumann:2002	Möbius
21.06.	IPO-Modell	Hart/etal:1990 (Kap. 3), Alessandro/Mertens:1995
28.06.	Perception of F0 contours	House:1996
05.07.	Prosody and information structure	Hirschberg/Pierrehumbert:1986, Pierrehumbert/Hirschberg:1990, Baumann/Grice:2006
12.07.	Text-to-tune alignment	Silverman/Pierrehumbert:1990, Kohler:1990	Blumenauer
19.07.	Production of F0 contours	House:1996, Xu/Liu:2006, Kochanski/Shih:2003	Hilpert
26.07.		Exam registration deadline (HISPOS): July 12, 2012

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