Falling Yes/No Questions in Corsican French and Corsican: Evidence for a Prosodic Transfer

Mareüil, Philippe Boula de; Rilliard, Albert; Lehka-Lemarchand, Iryna; Mairano, Paolo; Lai, Jean-Pierre

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-45168-7_6

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“…The PURR algorithm has been used by various authors to evaluate the role of prosody in the perception of foreign accent [15], emotion [16] or speaking styles [17]. Similarly, other studies have used delexicalization methods based on the modulation of f0 on pure tones [18], or on synthetic 'hum' stimuli [19] as implemented in Praat [20].…”

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Evaluation of delexicalization methods for research on emotional speech

Audibert,

Carbone,

Champagne-Lavau

et al. 2023

Interspeech 2023

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Perceptual evaluation of non-controlled emotional speech requires delexicalization to neutralize semantic variation. However, most existing methods imply losing spectral cues crucial to emotional attribution, related to both laryngeal and supralaryngeal settings. We propose a method relying on voice morphing to retain part of the spectral information of the original stimuli, as an additional step to diphone synthesis delexicalization. After previous assessment of intelligibility loss, this study evaluates the naturalness of angry and neutral expressions in French films, delexicalized using low-pass filtering and the proposed method implemented with MBROLA and STRAIGHT. Results show that morphing-based delexicalization, which leads to accurate emotional attribution, is rated with a higher degree of naturalness than low-pass filtering. Implications for research in affective speech are discussed with regards to other delexicalization methods proposed in the literature.

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confidence: 99%

Evaluation of delexicalization methods for research on emotional speech

Audibert,

Carbone,

Champagne-Lavau

et al. 2023

Interspeech 2023

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“…Moreover, studies of language contact show that prosodic resources from adstrates are frequently found in contact varieties (see Steien & Yakpo, 2020 for a review). Examples are the contours of polar questions in Malay English and Corsican French which originate from Malay (Gut & Pillai, 2014) and Corsican (de Mareüil et al, 2015), respectively. In a recent study, Kozminska (2019) examines the prosody in a migration context, that is, Polish migrants in England.…”

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On the pragmatic function of utterance-level declination as deployed by speakers with multilingual repertoires

Steien

Svennevig

Jensen

2022

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aim and objectives/purpose/research questions: The aim of this study is to examine the pragmatic function of utterance-level declination as used in conversations in French and Norwegian by 10 migrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) living in Norway whose repertoires are highly multilingual. Design/methodology/approach: To investigate this contour, we draw on insights from different fields, that is, research on multilingualism, Conversation Analysis (CA), and phonetics/phonology. Data and analysis: By an automatic procedure, we examined pitch variations of 400 declarative utterances (200 in Norwegian and 200 in French). The procedure found that 38 of the utterances have declination. These were then analyzed qualitatively with methods from CA in the context of the sequence. The aim of the CA was to assess the pragmatic functions of the contour. Findings/conclusions: We found that utterance-level declination is a marked contour, that is, used to make certain utterances prominent in relation to other utterances of the sequence. The contour has the same functions in French and Norwegian for these speakers. Our conclusion is that the contour is a flexible resource of the speakers’ repertoires. Originality and significance/implications: This study is a contribution to the scarcely explored area of the prosody-pragmatics interface in speakers with varied linguistic repertoires. Moreover, our approach is emic and inspired by recent trends in the field of multilingualism.

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What Makes Business Speakers Sound Charismatic?

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Brem

Michalsky

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CadLin

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Phonetic research on the prosodic sources of perceived charisma has taken a big step towards making a speaker’s tone-of-voice a tangible, quantifiable, and trainable matter. However, the tone-of-voice includes a complex bundle of acoustic features, and a lot of parameters have not even been looked at so far. Moreover, all previous studies focused on political or religious leaders and left aside the large field of managers and CEOs in the world of business. These are the two research gaps addressed in the present study. An acoustic analysis of about 1,350 prosodic phrases from keynotes given by a more charismatic CEO (Steve Jobs) and a less charismatic CEO (Mark Zuckerberg) suggests that the same tone-of-voice settings that make political or religious leaders sound more charismatic also work for business speakers. In addition, results point to further charisma-relevant acoustic parameters related to rhythm, emphasis, pausing, and voice quality - as well as to audience type as a significant context factor. The findings are discussed with respect to implications for future perception-oriented studies and perspectives for a computer-based measurement, assessment, and training of a charismatic tone of voice.

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Falling Yes/No Questions in Corsican French and Corsican: Evidence for a Prosodic Transfer

Cited by 5 publications

References 40 publications

Evaluation of delexicalization methods for research on emotional speech

Evaluation of delexicalization methods for research on emotional speech

On the pragmatic function of utterance-level declination as deployed by speakers with multilingual repertoires

What Makes Business Speakers Sound Charismatic?

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