Category: TCoG

Talk at Speech Prosody 7: Segmental Influences on the Perception of Pitch Accent Scaling in English

Jonathan Barnes, Alejna Brugos, Nanette Veilleux & Stefanie Shattuck Hufnagel. (2014) “Segmental Influences on the Perception of Pitch Accent Scaling in English.” In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 7, Campbell, Gibbon, and Hirst (eds.), pp. 1125-1129. Full paper: [pdf (4.8 mb)] Abstract: In both tone and intonation systems, segmental context is known to influence production and […]

Interspeech 2012 Paper: Perceptual Foundations for Naturalistic Variability in the Prosody of Synthetic Speech

Nanette Veilleux, Jonathan Barnes, Alejna Brugos & Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (2012) “Perceptual Foundations for Naturalistic Variability in the Prosody of Synthetic Speech,” Poster to be presented at Interspeech 2012, September 9-13, Portland, Oregon. [pdf] This poster will be included in a session entitled “Speech Synthesis: Selected Topics,” on Thursday, September 13th. Abstract Recent studies have shown […]

TCoG preprint: “Tonal Center of Gravity: A global approach to tonal implementation in a level-based intonational phonology”

Jonathan Barnes, Nanette Veilleux, Alejna Brugos, and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel. (Forthcoming). “Tonal Center of Gravity: A global approach to tonal implementation in a level-based intonational phonology.” Laboratory Phonology. [pdf] Abstract Recent evidence that pitch-movement shape can influence perceived alignment of rising (LH) pitch accents in several languages appears to challenge the well-established level-based approach to intonation […]

The effect of global F0 contour shape on the perception of tonal timing contrasts in American English intonation

Jonathan Barnes, Nanette Veilleux, Alejna Brugos and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel. (2010). The effect of global F0 contour shape on the perception of tonal timing contrasts in American English intonation, Speech Prosody 2010, 100445: 1-4. [pdf] Abstract: Results from an ABX perception task involving the contrast between default- and late-timed pitch accents ((L+)H* and L*+H) in American […]

Perceptual Robustness of the Tonal Center of Gravity for Contour Classification

Poster from the September, 2009 Workshop on Prosody and Meaning, Barcelona: “Perceptual Robustness of the Tonal Center of Gravity for Contour Classification” by Nanette Veilleux, Jon Barnes, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel and Alejna Brugos [pdf of poster] [pdf of abstract]

Alternatives to F0 turning points in American English intonation

Poster from the November 2008 ASA meeting: “Alternatives to F0 turning points in American English intonation,” by Jonathan Barnes, Nanette Veilleux, Alejna Brugos and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel [pdf of poster] Abstract: Since the inception of the autosegmental‐metrical approach to intonation (Bruce 1977, Pierrehumbert 1980, Ladd 1996), the location and scaling of f0 turning points have been […]