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More and more linguistic information has been employed to improve the performance of machine translation, such as part of speech, syntactic structures, discourse contexts, and so on. However, conventional approaches typically ignore the key information beyond the text such as prosody. In this paper, we exploit and employ three prosodic features: pronunciation (phonetic alphabet and tone), prosodic boundaries and emphasis.

This study examines potential contribution of prosodic features and voice quality to the perception and production of Japanese polite speech as well as possible gender effects in politeness strategy.

Shi Shuju, Tsurutani Chiharu, Feng Xiaoli, Zhang Jinsong, Minematsu Nobuaki

Speech discourse comprehension is crucial for developing intelligent speech processing technologies. The present research aims to establish a multi-layered annotation scheme for Chinese discourse that contains inter-related information of phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This research provides a theoretical foundation and analytical support for discourse comprehension by examining and modelling the relationships between prosody and morphology-syntax, as well as semantics and other structures during speech interactions.

This study explores possible contribution of speech rhythm to foreign accent. We conducted statistical analysis and realized automatic detection of rhythmic patterns on Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Japanese second language learners (L2) of Chinese using interval-based and amplitude-based measures.