Technical Program
SP2004 Session Schedule
23rd
  • 8:30-
    • Registration
  • 10:00-10:25
    • Opening Ceremony (Noh Stage)
  • 10:25-12:00
    • Opening Session (Noh Stage)
  • 12:00-13:00
    • Lunch
  • 13:00-14:50
    • Poster-1a, Poster-1b (Reception Hall)
  • 14:50-15:20
    • Break
  • 15:20-17:45
    • Oral-1 (Noh Stage) "Phonology and Phonetics of Prosody"
  • 17:45-18:00
    • Break
  • 18:00-20:00
    • Welcome Reception
24th
  • 9:00-11:35
    • Oral-2 (Noh Stage) "Prosody and Voice Quality"
  • 11:35-13:00
    • Lunch
  • 13:00-14:50
    • Poster-2a, Poster-2b (Reception Hall)
  • 14:50-15:20
    • Break
  • 15:20-17:45
    • Oral-3 (Noh Stage) "Paralinguistic and Nonlinguistic Information and Prosody"
25th
  • 9:00-11:45
    • Oral-4 (Noh Stage) "Control of Prosody for High-Quality and Expressive Speech Synthesis"
  • 11:45-13:00
    • Lunch
  • 13:00-14:50
    • Poster-3a, Poster-3b (Reception Hall)
  • 14:50-15:20
    • Break
  • 15:20-17:35
    • Oral-5 (Noh Stage) "Prosody in Speech Recognition, Understanding, and Summarization"
  • 17:35-18:00
    • Break
  • 18:00-21:00
    • Banquet and Attraction
26th
  • 9:30-11:30
    • Poster-4a, Poster-4b, Poster-4c (Reception Hall)
  • 11:30-12:30
    • Lunch
  • 12:30-14:45
    • Oral-6 (Noh Stage) "Physiology and Pathology of Prosody"
  • 14:45-14:50
    • Short Break
  • 14:50-15:20
    • Summarization of the Conference (Noh Stage)
  • 15:20-15:45
    • Closing Ceremony (Noh Stage)
Opening Session
March 23 Speech Prosody: Features, Modeling, and Database (3 papers)
  • Information, Prosody, and Modeling -with Emphasis on Tonal Features of Speech- [Invited]
    • Hiroya Fujisaki (University of Tokyo)
  • Prosody in Speech and Singing [Invited]
    • Ilse Lehiste (The Ohio State University)
  • 50 Years of Studies on Japanese Prosody [Invited]
    • Miyoko Sugito (Institute for Speech Communication Research)
Oral Sessions
March 23 Oral-1: Phonology and Phonetics of Prosody (6 papers)
  • Prosody and Phonology [Invited]
    • John Ohala (University of California, Berkeley)
  • The Phonology and Phonetics of Speech Prosody: Between Acoustics and Interpretation [Invited]
    • Daniel Hirst (University of Provence)
  • Prosody Revisited: FUNCTION, TIME, and the LISTENER in Intonational Phonology
    • Klaus Kohler (Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet)
  • An Intonational Typology of Swedish
    • Goesta Bruce (Lund University)
  • Explaining Two Correlations between Vowel Quality and Tonic: The Duration Connection
    • Carlos Gussenhoven and Wilske Driessen (University of Nijmegen)
  • Phonological and Phoneitc Effects of Minor Phrase Length on F0 in Japanese
    • Elizabeth Selkirk, Takahito Shinya and Shigeto Kawahara (University of Massachusetts)
March 24 Oral-2: Prosody and Voice Quality (7 papers)
  • Voice Quality and F0 in Prosody: Toward a Holistic Account [Invited]
    • Ailbhe Ni Chasaide and Christer Gobl (University of Dublin)
  • Suprasegmental Analysis for Complex Quality Assessment in Pathological Voices
    • Grazyna Demenko, Andrzej Obrebowski, Antoni Pruszewicz, and Bozena Wiskirska-Woznica (Adam Mickiewicz University, University of Medical Sciences)
  • Acoustic Morphology of Expressive Speech: What about Contours?
    • Veronique Auberge, Nicolas Audibert, and Albert Rilliard (University of Stendhal/INPG/CNRS)
  • Anger Versus Fear Detection in Recorded Conversations
    • L. Devillers, I. Vasiluscu, and L. Vidrascu (LIMSI, ENST, TSI)
  • Random Splicing: a Method of Investigating the Effects of Voice Quality on Impression Formation
    • Mihoko Teshigawara (University of Victoria)
  • Politeness and Voice Quality - the Alternative Method to Measure Aspiration Noise
    • Mika Ito (University of Edinburgh)
  • Accounting for Voice-Quality Variation
    • Nick Campbell (ATR)
March 24 Oral-3: Paralinguistic and Nonlinguistic Information and Prosody (6 papers)
  • Emotional Expression in Prosody: A Review and an Agenda for Future Research [Invited]
    • Klaus Scherer and Tanja Baenziger (University of Geneva)
  • Production and Perception of "Paralinguistic" Information [Invited]
    • Kikuo Maekawa (National Institute for Japanese Language)
  • Perceiving Prominence and Emotion in Speech: A Cross Lingual Study
    • Noam Amir, Bat-Chen Almogi and Ronit Gal (Tel-Aviv University)
  • The Role of F0 and Duration in Perception of Female and Male Speaker age
    • Suazanne Schoetz (Lund University)
  • Prosodic Styles and Personality Styles: Are the Two Interrelated?
    • Brigitte Zellner Keller (University of Bern)
  • Spoken Dialogue System Using Prosody as Para-Linguistic Information
    • Shinya Fujie, Daizo Yagi, Yosuke Matsusaka, Hideaki Kikuchi and Tsunenori Kobayashi (Waseda University)
March 25 Oral-4: Control of Prosody for High-quality and Expressive Speech Synthesis (7 papers)
  • Audiovisual Representation of Prosody in Expressive Speech Communication [Invited]
    • Bjorn Granstrom and David House (Royal Institute of Technology)
  • Speech Synthesis with Attitude [Invited]
    • Yoshinori Sagisaka, Takumi Yamashita, and Yoko Kokenawa (Waseda University)
  • Prosody by Rule in Swedish with Language Universal Implications
    • Gunnar Fant and Anita Kruckenberg (Royal Institute of Technology)
  • Synthesis by Recombination of Segmental and Prosodic Information
    • Jan P. H. van Santen, Alexander Kain, adn Esther Klabber (Oregon Graduate Institute)
  • HMM-Based Speech Synthesis with Various Speaking Styles Using Model Interpolation
    • Makoto Tachibana, Junichi Yamagishi, Koji Onishi, Takashi Masuko, and Takao Kobayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  • Automatic Generation of Prosody: Comparing Two Superpositional Systems
    • S. Raidt, G. Bailly, B. Holm, H. Mixdorff (ICP UMR CNRS, TFH Berlin University of Applied Sciences, Technische Universitet Dresden)
  • Emotional Speech Synthesis with Corpus-Based Generation of F0 Contours Using Generation Process Model
    • Keikichi Hirose, Kentaro Sato, and Nobuaki Minematsu (University of Tokyo)
March 25 Oral-5: Prosody in Speech Recognition, Understanding, and Summarization (6 papers)
  • Direct Modeling of Prosody: An Overview of Applications in Automatic Speech Processing [Invited]
    • Elizabeth Shriberg and Andreas Stolcke (SRI/ICSC)
  • How Prosody Improves word Recognition
    • Ken Chen and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinoi at Urbana-Champaign)
  • Use of Tone Information in Continuous Cantonese Speech Recognition
    • Yao Qian, Tan Lee, and Frank K. Soong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, ATR)
  • Duration Modeling for Mandarin Speech Recognition Using Prosodic Information
    • Wern-Jun Wang and Chun-Jen Lee (Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories, National Tsing Hua University)
  • Dependency Analysis of Read Japanese Sentences Using Pause Information: A Speaker Independent Case
    • Kazuyuki Takagi and Kazuhiko Ozeki (The University of Electro-Communications)
  • Improvement of Speech Summarization Using Prosodic Information
    • Akira Inoue, Takayoshi Mikami, and Yoichi Yamashita (Ritsumeikan University)
March 26 Oral-6: Physiology and Pathology of Prosody (6 papers)
  • Physiological Factors Causing Tonal Characteristics of Speech: From Global to Local Prosody [Invited]
    • Kiyoshi Honda (ATR Human Information Science Laboratories)
  • Glottalized and Nonglottalized Tones under Emphasis: Open Quotient Curves Remain Stable, F0 Curve is Modified
    • Alexis Michaud and Vu Ngoc Tuan (Laboratoire Phonetique et Phonologie (UMR 7018) CNRS/ Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, LIMSI)
  • Emotional Voice Measurement: a Comparison of Articulatory-EGG and Acoustic- Amplitude Parameters
    • Solange Rossato, Nicolas Audibert, and Veronique Auberge (Universite Stendhal/INPG/CNRS)
  • Prosodic and Segmental Evaluation of Dysarthric Speech
    • Hiroki Mori, Yasunori Kobayashi, Hideki Kasuya, Hajime Hirose and Noriko Kobayashi (Utsunomiya University, Kitasato University)
  • Changes in Prosodic Characteristics after Speech Therapy for Patients with Motor Speech Disorders
    • Noriko Kobayashi, Hajime Hirose, S. Horiguchi, and Hiroki Mori (Kitasato University, Utsunomiya University)
  • Development and Evaluation of Pitch Adjustable Electrolarynx
    • Yoshinobu Kikuchi and Hideki Kasuya (International University of Health and Welfare, Utsunomiya University)
Poster Sessions
March 23 Poster-1a: Accent, Stress, Focus, Emphasis, and Prominence (17 papers)
  • Accenting Accessible Information
    • Stefan Baumann & Martine Grice
  • "Segmental Anchoring" of F0 under Changes in Speech Rate: Evidence from Russian
    • Yosuke Igarashi
  • The Effect of Accent on Acoustic Cues to Stop Voicing and Place of Articulation in Radio News Speech
    • Heejin Kim, Jennifer Cole1, Hansook Choi1, and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
  • Emergence of Unaccented Words in Japanese
    • Haruo Kubozono and Shinji Ogawa
  • Japanese Repetition of Normal and Prosodically-Modified English Words
    • Anthony O. Okobi and Keikichi Hirose
  • A Role of Pitch Accent in Spoken-Word Recognition in Accentless Japanese Dialects:Evidence from Fukushima Listeners
    • Takashi Otake and Marii Higuchi
  • Asymmetric Distribution of Accents and the Related issue of Vowel Duration
    • Yuko Z. Yoshida
  • Unifying Stress Shift and Secondary Stress Phenomena with a Dynamical Systems Rhythm Rule
    • Plinio A. Barbosa, P. Arantes, and L. S. Silveira
  • Intrinsic Prosodic Properties of Stressed Vowels in European Portuguese
    • Francisco Costa
  • Preaspiration in Sienese Italian & its Interaction with Stress in /VC:/ Sequences
    • Mary Stevens and John Hajek
  • Stress on Mongolian Trisyllabic Words
    • Huhe Harnud
  • Prominence and Mora in Mongolian
    • Anastasia Mukhanova Karlsson and Jan-Olof Svantesson
  • Congruent and Incongruent Audiovisual Cues to Prominence
    • Marc Swerts & Emiel Krahmer
  • Can We See Focus? A Visual Perception Study of Contrastive Focus in French
    • Marion Dohen, H_.A_Nil_Nhne Loevenbruck, Marie-Agn_Nhs Cathiard, and Jean-Luc Schwartz
  • Identification of the Possible Visible Correlates of Contrastive Focus in French
    • Marion Dohen, H_.A_Nil_Nhne Loevenbruck, Marie-Agn_Nhs Cathiard, and Jean-Luc Schwartz
  • On the Temporal Domain of Focus
    • Yi Xu, Ching X. Xu, and Xuejing Sun
  • The Realization of Accentual Focus in Moroccan Learners of English
    • Mohamed Yeou Chouaib
March 23 Poster-1b: Tone, Intonation, and Prosody in Music (17 papers)
  • Tone Assignment in Second Language Prosodic Learning
    • Charles C. Chen, Jr. and Ching-Pong
  • Pitch Targets Anchor Chinese Tone and Intonation Patterns
    • Jinfu Ni and Hisashi Kawai
  • The Functional Load of Tone in Mandarin is as High as That of Vowels
    • Dinoj Surendran and Gina-Anne Levow
  • Phonetic Dimensions of Intonational Categories - the Case of L+H* and H*
    • Sasha Calhoun
  • A Preliminary Study of Focus and Ending in Chinese Intonation
    • Wen Cao
  • Comparison of Sentential-Stress Allocation within Base Phrases among Different Reading Styles
    • Min Chu and Mingzhen Bao
  • Final Rises in Spontaneous Swedish Computer-Directed Questions: Incidence and Function
    • David House
  • The Prosodic Characteristics of the Number Words in Hong Kong Cantonese
    • Wai-Sum Lee
  • Prosody and Foreign Accent Syndrome
    • Jo Verhoeven and Peter Marien
  • The Structure of French Intonational Rises: A Study of Text-to-Tune Alignment
    • Pauline Welby
  • Confusability of Chinese Intonation
    • Jiahong Yuan and Chilin Shih
  • The Prosody of the Compound Words in Standard Chinese
    • Eric Zee
  • Prosody Variation in English: Geographical, Social, Situational
    • T.I. Shevchenko, T.S. Skopintseva
  • The Phonology of Melodic Prominence: the Structure of Melisms
    • Genevieve Caelen-Haumont and Cyril Auran
  • Application of a Psychoacoustic Model of Harmony to Speech Prosody
    • Norman D. Cook, Takashi Fujisawa, and Kazuaki Takami
  • Variability of Vibrato -A Comparative Study between Japanese Traditional Singing and Bel Canto-
    • Kenji Kojima, Masuzo Yanagida, and Ichiro Nakayama
  • Intonation of French Songs: From Music to Text, From Text to Music
    • Philippe Martin
March 24 Poster-2a: Temporal Structure, Discourse, and Dialogue (17 papers)
  • Isochrony and Prosodic Structure in British English
    • Caroline Bouzon and Daniel Hirst
  • Introducing YARD (Yet Another Rhythm Determination) and Re-indroducing Isochrony to Rhythm Research
    • Petra S. Wagner, and Volker Dellwo
  • Restudy of Segmental Lengthening in Mandarin Chinese
    • Chao Jianfen
  • Durational Cues and Pitch Cues in Japanese Mora
    • Tomoko Kozasa
  • A Study on Duration Compensation in Mandarin Chinese
    • Sun Lu, Hu Yu, Wang Ren-Hua
  • Elasticity of Prepausal Vowels in Japanese Rhythmic Structure
    • Yoko Mori
  • On the Syllable Timing in Taiwan English
    • Hua-Li Jian
  • Speech Rate and Prosody Units: Evidence of Interaction from Mandarin Chinese
    • Chiu-yu Tseng and Yeh-lin Lee
  • Syllable Fusion and Speech Rate in Hong Kong Cantonese
    • Wai Yi Peggy Wong
  • Anaphora, Connectives and Resetting: Prosodic and Pragmatic Parameters Interactions in the Marking of Discourse Structure
    • Cyril Auran and Daniel Hirst
  • Prosody As Marker of Direct Reported Speech Boundary
    • Miguel Oliveira, Jr. and D_.A_Nsris A. C. Cunha
  • Duration and Pauses as Cues to Discourse Boundaries in Speech
    • Li-chiung Yang
  • Audiovisual Perception of Communication Problems
    • Pashiera Barkhuysen, Emiel Krahmer, and Marc Swerts
  • Prosody of Dialogues: Influence of Recognition Failure on Local Speech Rate
    • Olga I. Dioubina
  • Informational Status and Pitch Accent Distribution in Spontaneous Dialogues in English
    • K. Ito, S. R. Speer, and M. E. Beckman
  • Quantitative Analysis of Prosody in Task-Oriented Dialogs
    • Hansjorg Mixdorff
  • A Fundamental Study on a Method to Detect Slower Phrases in Japanese Dialog Speech
    • Keiichi Takamaru, Makoto Hiroshige, Kenji Araki, and Koji Tochinai
March 24 Poster-2b: Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Prosodic Structure (16papers)
  • Prosodic Cues for Syntactic Categorization
    • Jean-Marc BLANC and Peter F. DOMINEY
  • Prosodic Disambiguation of Participle Constructions in English
    • Soyoung Kang and Shari R. Speer
  • The Role of Prosody in Parsing Ambiguous Sentences
    • Nivedita Mani
  • Speech Chunks in Conversation: Syntactic and Prosodic Aspects
    • Eva Strangert
  • Meanings and Configurations of Questions in English
    • Nancy Hedberg, Juan M. Sosa, and Lorna Fadden
  • On Recognition of Declarative Questions in English
    • Marie Safarova and Marc Swerts
  • Accentuation and Interpretation
    • Hans-Christian Schmitz and Bernhard Schroder
  • The Pragmatics of Prosodic Features in the Political Debate
    • Daniela Braga and Maria Aldina Marques
  • Pragmatic Functions of Prosodic Features in Non-Lexical Utterances
    • Nigel Ward
  • Prediction of Upcoming Swedish Prosodic Boundaries by Swedish and American Listeners
    • Rolf Carlson1, Julia Hirschberg, and Marc Swerts
  • Acoustic Differentiation of ip and IP Boundary Levels: Comparison of L- and L-L% in the Switchboard Corpus
    • Sandra Chavarria1, Tae-Jin Yoon1, Jennifer Cole1, and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
  • The Prosodic Structure of Northern Kyungsang Korean
    • Jongho Jun, Jungsun Kim, Hayoung Lee, and Sun-Ah Jun
  • Recursive Patterns in Phonological Phrases
    • Maartje Schreuder and Dicky Gilbers
  • Rhythmic Boost and Recursive Minor Phrase in Japanese
    • Takahito Shinya, Elisabeth Selkirk, and Shigeto Kawahara
  • Perceptual Inspection of V-V Juncture in Japanese
    • Kitazawa Shigeyoshi, Kiriyama Shinya, Itoh Toshihiko, and Yukinori Toyama
  • Phonetic Reflexes of Morphological Boundaries at a Normal Speech Rate
    • Mariko Sugahara, and Alice Turk
March 25 Poster-3a: Analysis, Modeling, and Generation of Prosody (18 papers)
  • Automatic Analysis and Synthesis of Fujisaki's Intonation Model for TTS
    • Pablo Daniel Aguero, Klaus Wimmer, and Antonio Bonafonte
  • Evaluation of a Method for Automatic Determination of F0 Model Parameters
    • Shehui Bu , Mikio Yamamoto, and Shuichi Itahashi
  • A Method for Automatic Tone Command Parameter Extraction for the Model of F0 Contour Generation for Mandarin
    • Wentao Gu, Keikichi Hirose, and Hiroya Fujisaki
  • Comparing CART and Fujisaki Intonation Models for Synthesis of US English Names
    • Marko Moberg and Kimmo P_.A_Ndrssinen
  • Evaluation of an Improved Method for Automatic Extraction of Model Parameters from Fundamental Frequency Contours of Speech
    • Shuichi Narusawa, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose, and Hiroya Fujisaki
  • Automatic Extraction of F0 Control Parameters Using Utterance Information
    • Hiromasa Ogawa and Yoshinori Sagisaka
  • Prediction of Accent Commands for the Fujisaki Intonation Model
    • Jo_.A_Nco Paulo Teixeira, Diamantino Freitas, and Hiroya Fujisaki
  • A Concatenative-Tone Model With Its Parameters' Extraction
    • Gao Peng Chen, Yu Hu, and Ren-Hua Wang
  • Exemplar-Based Production of Prosody: Evidence from Segment and Syllable Durations
    • Antje Schweitzer and Bernd Mobius
  • Optimal Footprint for Prosodic Modelling
    • Eric Keller and Brigitte Zellner Keller
  • F0 Analysis and Modeling for Cantonese Text-to-Speech
    • Yujia Li, Tan Lee and Yao Qian
  • Vietnamese Tones Generation Using F0 and Power Patterns
    • Tu Trong DO and Tomio TAKARA
  • Estimation of Prosodic Information for Persian Text-to Speech System Using a Recurrent Neural Network
    • Ali Farrokhi1, Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami, and Mansur Sheikhan1
  • Analysis of Segmental Duration for Thai Speech Synthesis
    • Chatchawarn Hansakunbuntheung1 and Yoshinori Sagisaka
  • Study on Pitch Contour of Thai Polysyllabic Tone Sequences Using a Generative Model
    • Pusadee Seresangtakul and Tomio Takara
  • Prosodic Modeling of Nagauta Singing and Its Evaluation
    • Nobuaki Minematsu, Bungo Matsuoka, and Keikichi Hirose
  • Development of the F0 Control Model for Singing-Voices Synthesis
    • Takeshi Saitou , Masashi Unoki, and Masato Akagi
  • Statistical Conversion Algorithms of Pitch Contours Based on Prosodic Phrases
    • Ki Young Lee and Yunxin Zhao
March 25 Poster-3b: Prosody in Speech Technology, Prosodic Annotation, and Corpora (18 papers)
  • Input Prediction Method of Speech Front End Processor Using Prosodic Information
    • Masahiro Araki, Hiroyoshi Ohmiya, and Satoshi Kida
  • A PCFG for Prosodic Structure. Experiments on German
    • Michaela Atterer and Sabine Schulte
  • A Maximum Likelihood Prosody Recognizer
    • Ken Chen, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Aaron Cohen, and Jennifer Cole
  • Recovery of Japanese Dependency Structure Using Multiple Pause Information
    • Meirong Lu, Kazuyuki Takagi, and Kazuhiko Ozeki
  • Automatic Estimation of Speaking Rate in Multilingual Spontaneous Speech
    • Francois Pellegrino, J. Farinas, and J. L. Rouas
  • Speaker-Independent Automatic Detection of Pitch Accent
    • Yuexi Ren1, Sung-Suk Kim, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson and Jennifer Cole
  • Tonal Contextual F0 Variations and Anchoring Based Discrimination
    • Jin-Song Zhang, Satoshi Nakamura, and Keikichi Hirose
  • Timing Detection for Realtime Dialog Systems Using Prosodic and Linguistic Information
    • Masashi Takeuchi, Norihide Kitaoka, and Seiichi Nakagawa
  • Speech Separation based on Multi-pitch Detection Algorithm Using Constrained Gaussian Mixture Model and Information Criterion
    • Hirokazu Kameoka, Takuya Nishimoto, and Shigeki Sagayama
  • An Adaptable Acoustic Architecture in a Multilingual TTS System
    • Caglayan Erdem, Janez Stergar, and Bogomir Horvat
  • A Study of Clarity Control of Synthesized Speech with Prosodic Features and Phonemic Features
    • Noriki Fujiwara, Makoto Hiroshige, Kenji Araki, Koji Tochinai
  • WinPitchPro, a Tool for Text to Speech Alignment and Prosodic Analysis
    • Philippe Martin
  • The Prosogram: Semi-Automatic Transcription of Prosody Based on a Tonal Perception Model
    • Piet Mertens
  • Automatic Determination of Phrase Breaks for Argentine Spanish
    • Humberto M. Torres and Jorge A. Gurlekian
  • ToBI Prosodic Analysis of a Professional Speaker of American English
    • John F. Pitrelli
  • The Aix-MARSEC Project, an Evolutive Database of Spoken British English
    • Cyril Auran, Caroline Bouzon, and Daniel Hirst
  • Measuring the Reliability of Manual Annotations of Speech Corpora
    • Ulrike Gut and Petra Saskia Bayerl
  • Querying Annotated Speech Corpora
    • Ulrike Gut, Jan-Torsten Milde, Holger Voormann, and Ulrich Heid
March 26 Poster-4a: Brain Science, Voice Physics, and Speech Pathology (9 papers)
  • Gender Differences in the Functional Organization of the Brain for Emotional Prosody Processing
    • Satoshi Imaizumi, Midori Homma,Yoshiaki Ozawa, Masaharu Maruishi, and Hiroyuki Muranaka
  • Brain Responses to Focus-Related Prosodic Mismatch in Japanese
    • Kiwako Ito and Susan M. Garnsey
  • Auditory Pre-attentive Processing of Segmental and Suprasegmental (Speech Prosody) Phonological Units of Lexical Tones
    • Wichian Sittiprapaporn, Chittin Chindaduangratn, and Naiphinich Kotchabhakdi
  • Dysprosody in Parkinson's Disease: An Acoustic Study Based on Tonal Phonology and the INTSINT System
    • Karine Rigaldie, Jean Luc Nespoulous, and Nadine Vigouroux
  • An Aerodynamic Analysis of Intonation in Hong Kong Cantonese
    • Yuk-Man Cheung
  • Effects of Consonant Type and Syllable Position within a Word on Vowel Devoicing in Japanese
    • Masako Fujimoto
  • Mapping between Prosodic Hierarchy and Supralaryngeal Articulatory Variations in French
    • Yohann Meynadier
  • A Measurement from Electroglottography: DECPA, and its Application in Prosody
    • Alexis Michaud
  • Acoustical Interpretation of Certain Laryngeal Settings Using a Physical Model
    • Ken-ichi Sakakibara, and Hiroshi Imagawa
March 26 Poster-4b: Emotional Expression and Voice Quality (8 papers)
  • Analysis of Autocorrelation-based Parameters for Creaky Voice Detection
    • Carlos Toshinori Ishi
  • Cross-Cultural Multimodal Interpretation of Emotional Expressions ?An Experimental Study of Spanish and Swedish
    • Asa Abelin
  • Analysis of Prosodic Features of Emotional Expressions in Noh Farce ("Kyohgen") Speech According to the Degree of Emotion
    • Muhd Dzulkhiflee Hamzah, Shoichi Takeda, Teruo Muraoka, and Takumi Ohashi
  • On the Differences in Prosodic Features of Emotional Expressions in Japanese Speech according to the Degree of the Emotion
    • Yasuki Hashizawa, Shoichi Takeda, Muhd Dzulkhiflee Hamzah, and Ghen Ohyama
  • Universal and Linguistic Features of Expressing Emotional Information: Differentiation in the Perception Level
    • Inga Ibrakhim
  • Relating Emotional Content to Speech Rate in Brazilian Portuguese
    • Ana Cristina Fricke Matte
  • Can People Perceive Different Emotions from a Non-Emotional Voice by Modifying its F0 and Duration?
    • Yasuko Nagasaki and Takanori Komatsu
  • Global Trend of Fundamental Frequency in Emotional Speech
    • Astrid Paeschke
March 26 Poster-4c: Prosody and Perception (15 papers)
  • Characteristics of Intonation Unit Boundaries in Spontaneous Spoken Hebrew - Perception and Acoustic Correlates
    • Noam Amir, Vered Silber-Varod, and Shlomo Izre'el
  • Contribution of Prosody to the Perception of Spanish/Italian Accents
    • PhilippeBoula de Mareui1l, Giovanna Marotta, and Martine Adda-Decker
  • Answers to the Perception of Thematic Contrast and Questions regarding the Perception of Thematic "Non-Contrast"
    • Bettina Braun
  • Perceptual Judgments of Pitch Range
    • Rolf Carlson1, Kjell Elenius1, and Marc Swerts
  • Perception of Tone Variation -- Evidence From the Varieties of Taiwan Mandarin --
    • Chun-Mei Chen
  • The Default Status of Disyllabic Prosodic Feet in Mandarin Speech Perception
    • Ivan Chow
  • Perception of Contrastive Emphasis by American English and Japanese Listeners
    • Donna Erickson
  • F0 Peaks and Valleys Aligned with Non-Prominent Syllables Can Influence Perceived Prominence in Adjacent Syllables
    • Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel1, Laura Dilley1, Nanette Veilleux, Alejna Brugos, and Rob Speer1
  • Perception of Discourse Boundaries by Taiwan Mandarin Speakers
    • Janice Fon
  • Prosodic and Segmental Cues to the Perception of Grammatical Number in Two Limburgian Dialects of Dutch
    • Rachel Fournier, Jo Verhoeven, Marc Swerts, and Carlos Gussenhoven
  • Minimum Long Quantity in Perception and Production between Japanese and Finnish
    • Toshiko Isei-Jaakkola
  • Perceprion of Foreign Accentedness in L2 Prodody and Segments: L1 Japanese Speakers Learning L2 French
    • Kamiyama Takeki
  • Perceptual Discrimination of Prosodic Types
    • Masahiko Komatsu1, Takayuki Arai1, and Tsutomu Sugawara
  • Perceptual Properties of Syllables Isolated from Continuous Speech for Different Speaking Rate
    • Hisao Kuwabara
  • Intrinsic Pitch in Opening and Closing Diphthongs of German
    • Oliver Niebuhr