‘Prosody’ encompasses all those acoustic aspects of an utterance that are not due to the choice of words, but reflect syntactic grouping, emphasis, negotiate turn-taking, reflect emotional attitude, or distinguish different speech acts. Our research addresses two key questions: (i) What information about speaker and context is reflected in prosody? (ii) How much of this information is retrieved by the listener, and how is it used in speech processing?
Prosody is partly the result of processing effects such as planning and lexical retrieval and partly it itself is part of the message, and encodes important information. We all have internalized intricate conventions about prosody, just like we have internalized conventions about what particular words mean and how they can be combined to form sentences. So part of our research is trying to better understand how languages differ in their prosodic grammars.
Investigating prosody requires integrating insights from different disciplines, including psycho-linguistics experimentation, signal processing and modeling the semantics and pragmatics of prosody, and our lab tries to do just that…
Current Grants:
Canada Research Chair in Speech and Language Processing (Canada Research Chair Project 212482)
La prosodie: production, perception et différences interlinguistiques (FQRSC, Établissement de nouveaux chercheurs, NP-132516)
Effects de maturation sur l’acquisition et le traitement (PI: Lydia White. FQRSC team grant 2010-SE-130727 )
Past Grants:
Encoding and Retrieving Information with Prosody. Seed Grant of the Institute for Social Sciences at Cornell University.
Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody. Funding for a conference an international conference on prosody at Cornell University. (NSF 0642660)
research
‘Prosody’ encompasses all those acoustic aspects of an utterance that are not due to the choice of words, but reflect syntactic grouping, emphasis, negotiate turn-taking, reflect emotional attitude, or distinguish different speech acts. Our research addresses two key questions: (i) What information about speaker and context is reflected in prosody? (ii) How much of this information is retrieved by the listener, and how is it used in speech processing?
Prosody is partly the result of processing effects such as planning and lexical retrieval and partly it itself is part of the message, and encodes important information. We all have internalized intricate conventions about prosody, just like we have internalized conventions about what particular words mean and how they can be combined to form sentences. So part of our research is trying to better understand how languages differ in their prosodic grammars.
Investigating prosody requires integrating insights from different disciplines, including psycho-linguistics experimentation, signal processing and modeling the semantics and pragmatics of prosody, and our lab tries to do just that…
Current Grants:
Canada Research Chair in Speech and Language Processing (Canada Research Chair Project 212482)
La prosodie: production, perception et différences interlinguistiques (FQRSC, Établissement de nouveaux chercheurs, NP-132516)
Effects de maturation sur l’acquisition et le traitement (PI: Lydia White. FQRSC team grant 2010-SE-130727 )
Past Grants:
Encoding and Retrieving Information with Prosody. Seed Grant of the Institute for Social Sciences at Cornell University.
Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody. Funding for a conference an international conference on prosody at Cornell University. (NSF 0642660)
Upcoming conference:
Mosaic 2, June 1 2010
Past Conferences:
Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP).
Cornell University. April 11-13 2008. (conference website)
Syntax and Prosody in the Northest (SPINE).
Cornell University. May 5 2007