Crowd-sourcing prosodic annotation

Cole, Jennifer; Mahrt, Timothy; Roy, Joseph

doi:10.1016/j.csl.2017.02.008

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“…Finally, corroborating the evidence from other languages (see Baumann andWinter 2018 for German, andCole et al 2017 for English) we found that in prosodically untrained prominence perception, content words are more prominent than function words. Baumann and Winter (2018) predict a positive effect for content words based on informationstructural criteria.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

“…Therefore, under high cognitive load the speakers might not be able to produce reliable cues to prominence or the presence of cues to prominence depends on the activation of concepts in speakers rather than in the ongoing discourse (for a discussion of speaker-and listener-oriented characteristics in speech production see Arnold 2008). Thus, as also suggested in Cole et al (2017), listeners of naturally occurring speech are dealing with conflicting cues, and due to this, they need to vary their strategies to resolve the conflicting cues to prominence.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…We will investigate whether the verbal arguments vary in the degree of perceived prominence, and whether the prominence in arguments is affected by the presence of a clause boundary. We will also test the replicability of the finding from earlier studies that perceived prominence correlates with the part-of-speech and the number of syllables in a word (see Baumann andWinter 2018, andCole et al 2017). Finally, Estonian offers a good testbed for the reliability of the RPT methodology because its grammatical properties differ somewhat from the properties of the languages tested so far.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…In particular, function words are highly predictable in utterances, and pronouns frequently refer to given information in discourse while content words such as nouns, proper names, adjectives and lexical verbs are much less predictable and more informative than function words. Nominal constituents (e.g., nouns, adjectives) have been demonstrated to sound much more prominent than verbs, pronouns and function words (e.g., Cole et al 2017). Consequently, it can be concluded that prominence perception is also influenced by lexical information.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For better understanding of linguistic prominence, it is crucial to acquire more data from typologically different languages (Cole et al 2017) by using comparable methodologies. This paper investigates prominence perception with the Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT) methodology (see e.g., Cole et al 2010), which entails that a number of 'naïve' listeners transcribe a chunk of text by indicating words they hear as prominent while simultaneously listening to the audio recording of the same text.…”

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The perception of prominence: a Rapid Prosody Transcription study with Estonian listeners

Ots

Asu

2019

ESUKA-JEFUL

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This study investigates the effect of different prosodic variables (e.g., pitch, syllable duration, presence of pitch accent and intonation boundary) and non-prosodic variables (e.g., type of verbal argument, presence of clause boundary, part-of-speech and number of syllables) on the perception of prominence in spontaneous Estonian. Following the methodology of Rapid Prosody Transcription, 396 randomly selected speech fragments from ten speakers were presented over the internet to 51 prosodically untrained listeners, whose task was to highlight the words they heard as prominent. The same dataset was annotated for intonational pitch accents and boundary tones by two experts. The results demonstrate that the strongest predictors of prominence perception are the pitch and duration of stressed syllables together with the presence of a pitch accent while the non-prosodic variables are somewhat weaker. The study corroborates earlier findings in that the perceptual salience in spoken language processing depends largely on the acoustic signal-based cues. Kokkuvõte. Nele Ots ja Eva Liina Asu: Prominentsuse taju eesti keeles: prosoodia kiirtranskribeerimise uurimus eesti keele kõnelejatega. Artikkel uurib eri prosoodiliste tunnuste (põhitoon, rõhulise silbi kestus, tooni aktsendi ja intonatsioonipiiri olemasolu) ning mitteprosoodiliste tunnuste (verbi argument, klausipiiri olemasolu, sõnaliik ja silpide arv) mõju prominentsuse tajule spontaanses eesti keeles. Lähtudes prosoodia kiirtranskriptsiooni (Rapid Prosody Transcription, RPT) metodoloogiast, esitati 396 juhuslikult valitud spontaanse kõne lõiku interneti teel 51-le prosoodia valdkonnas koolitamata kuulajale, kelle ülesandeks oli tekstis esile tõsta sõnad, mis kuuldusid neile rõhulisena. Kaks kõneprosoodia uurijat transkribeerisid samades kõne lõikudes tooniaktsendid ja intonatsioonipiirid. Tulemused näitavad, et prominentsuse taju tähtsaimad ennustajad on tooniaktsent, põhitoon ning silbi kestus. Mitteprosoodilised tunnused mõjutavad prominentsuse taju mõnevõrra vähem. Katse tulemused kinnitavad varasemate uurimuste järeldust, et tajutud prominentsus sõltub eelkõige akustilistest signaalipõhistest tunnustest. Märksõnad: prominentsus, taju, intonatsioon, tooniaktsent, sõnaliik, argumendistruktuur, prosoodia kiirtranskriptsioon (RPT), eesti keel

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The perception of prominence: a Rapid Prosody Transcription study with Estonian listeners

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Linguistic syncopation: Meter-syntax alignment affects sentence comprehension and sensorimotor synchronization

Hilton

Goldwater

2021

Cognition

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The hierarchical organization of speech rhythm into meter putatively confers cognitive affordances for perception, memory, and motor coordination. Meter also aligns with phrasal structure in systematic ways. In this paper, we show that this alignment affects the robustness of syntactic comprehension and discuss possible underlying mechanisms. In two experiments, we manipulated meter-syntax alignment while sentences with relative clause structures were either read as text (experiment 1, n = 40) or listened to as speech (experiment 2, n = 40). In experiment 2, we also measured the stability with which participants could tap in time with the metrical accents in the sentences they were comprehending. In addition to making more mistakes, sensorimotor synchronization was disrupted when syntactic cues clashed with the metrical context. We suggest that this reflects a tight coordination of top-down linguistic knowledge with the sensorimotor system to optimize comprehension.

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