Speech technology, the automatic processing of (spontaneously) spoken language, is now known to be technically feasible. It will become the major tool for handling the confusion of languages with applications including dictation systems, information retrieval by spoken dialog, and speech-to-speech translation. The book gives a throrough account of prosodic phenomena. The author presents in detail the mathematical and comnputational background of ...

Die Einführung beleuchtet alle Aspekte des gesprochenen Deutsch. Das Anfangskapitel behandelt mediale Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen Rede und Schrift. Immer mit dem Blick auf das Wesentliche und stets anhand von Beispielen werden alle Organisationsebenen der gesprochenen Sprache beschrieben: Zuerst Laute und Silben, besonders eingehend die Prosodie und syntaktische Formen, dann der Wortschatz, die Wortsemantik und - am Beispiel ...

"Phonetic Data Analysis" examines the procedures involved in describing the sounds of a language and illustrates the basic techniques of experimental phonetics, most of them requiring little more than a tape recorder, a video camera, and a computer. Examines the procedures involved in describing the sounds of a language and illustrates the basic techniques of experimental phonetics. Written by Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading ...

This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics is now available in a fully updated second edition. Peter Ladefoged describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages.Important topics covered in Vowels and Consonants include: - the main forces operating on the sounds of languages- the acoustic components of speech and speech synthesis- computers and Text-To-Speech ...

Diese Studie untersucht die regionalen Unterschiede zwischen den Sprechmelodien (Intonation) im Deutschen, besonders zwischen den städtischen Regionalsprachen Hamburgs, Berlins, Kölns, Duisburgs, Mannheims und Freiburgs. Sie erarbeitet eine grundlegende Methodik für die analytische Erfassung des Phänomens ,intonatorische Varianz' und fußt auf einem großen, empirisch gewonnenen Datenbestand. Die Untersuchung ...

"Man sollte heimlich mitstenographieren, was die Leute so reden ... man sollte wortwörtlich mitstenographieren - einhundertundachtzig Silben in der Minute - was die Leute so schwabbeln ... Das oberste Gesetz ist: der Gesprächspartner ist schwerhörig und etwas schwachsinnig - daher ist es gut, alles sechsmal zu sagen." (Kurt Tucholsky)
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This volume presents an overview of the state of the art in second language prosody learning and teaching. The first part comprises descriptions of non-native intonation, stress and speech rhythm written by experts in the field in a format accessible to language teachers. In the second part, leading teaching practitioners present a variety of methods and exercises in the area of prosody. The volume is accompanied by a CD-ROM with audio examples. ...

Prosodic Phonology by Marina Nespor and Irene Vogel is finally available again."Nespor & Vogel 1986" is a citation classic, and even after twenty years, it is still recognized as the standard resource on Prosodic Phonology.This groundbreaking work introduces all of the prosodic domains (syllable, foot, word, clitic group, phonological phrase, intonational phrase and utterance) and comments on the evidence in their favor from numerous ...