Three studies are presented in this paper that address how nonsigners perceive the visual prosodic cues in a sign language. In Study 1, adult American nonsigners and users of American Sign Language (ASL) were compared on their sensitivity to the visual cues in ASL Intonational Phrases. In Study 2

is processed. Recordings of dialogue interpreting give insight to the output of the restructuring procedure. Our hypothesis is that prosodic cues are very important for speech segmentation and help to identify meaningful functional units. In this paper we will demonstrate some effects of the restructuring

)) stand in a complex relationship to the percept they invoke in the auditory domain. Not all measurable prosodic differences are actually used in sentence parsing. This study investigates the prosodic cues used by speakers to disambiguate a German case ambiguity in order to examine to which degree

that despite the subjective nature of the task, raters show significant agreement in distinguishing involved from non-involved utterances. Second, we ask whether there is a relationship between human judgments of involvement and automatically extracted prosodic features of the associated regions. Results show

of prosodic information, even though the speech signal is highly variable within and between speakers, by virtue of the relative invariance of the duration of the onset. This provides listeners with a baseline against which the durational cues in vowel and coda can be evaluated. Furthermore, our experiments

It is by now well documented that Scandinavian subordinate clauses introduced by complementisers such as Swedish att ‘that ’ may exhibit typical main clause word order. It is also generally accepted that the difference in word order reflects syntactic and semantic differences (Andersson 1975, Holmberg & Platzack 1995,

In this paper we show how prosody can be used in spoken dialog systems. First, we describe the phenomena that prosodic analysis is concerned with and give examples why prosody is relevant in the context of spoken dialog processing. Then we examine prosody in the light of pattern classification. We

This paper focuses on the analysis and prediction of student disengagement and uncertainty, using a corpus of dialogues collected with a spoken tutorial dialogue system in the STEM domain of qualitative physics. We first compare and contrast the prosodic characteristics of dialogue turns exhibiting

This paper discusses the feasibility of using prosodic features for interaction control in spoken dialogue systems, and points to experimental evidence that automatically extracted prosodic features can be used to improve the efficiency of identifying relevant places at which a machine can

What types of information may children exploit in learning where words begin and end in continuous speech? As speech segmentation covers an essential part of language learning, many researchers have looked for cues which