LINGUIST List 26.4810
Thu Oct 29 2015
Confs: Phonetics, Phonology/USA
Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 28-Oct-2015
From: Jonathan Barnes <jabarnes
bu.edu>
Subject: Sources of Prosodic Variation across Recording Settings
E-mail this message to a friend Sources of Prosodic Variation across Recording Settings
Date: 31-May-2016 - 03-Jun-2016
Location: Boston, MA, USA
Contact: Oliver Niebuhr
Contact Email:
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http://sites.bu.edu/speechprosody2016/
Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology
Meeting Description:
The task of describing and understanding speech communication places certain requirements on the acoustic quality and experimental control of speech signals. Despite this inevitable fact, we know surprisingly little about the social, environmental, and task-specific factors that shape speech production, and particularly speech prosody, inside and outside the laboratory. Continuing the INSPECT initiative (i.e. “Innovating Speech Elicitation Techniques”) that was started by Niebuhr, Michaud, and colleagues in 2013, our special session aims at bringing together, with a focus on prosody, papers that can sensitize researchers to the challenges, sources of variation, and possible pitfalls of gathering production data. Thus, possible topics include (but are to restricted to) in-depth analyses or comparisons of elicitation tasks (including types of reading material), prosodic convergence, the issue of generalization of lab-speech findings, reliability of measurements, individual speaker differences (e.g., with respect to expressive speech, fluency, laughter, breathing), effects and artifacts of recording conditions, such as type of microphone, eye contact, or task duration (fatigue or order/repetition effects).
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