Author : Alexander Haselow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108417213
This book takes the reader on a journey through the structure of everyday spoken English, providing a fresh look at the relation between language and the mind.
Author : Alexander Haselow
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 2016
Category : English language
ISBN :
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Toward an interfield approach to the study of spontaneous speech; 3. A dualistic approach to grammar: Microgrammar and macrogrammar; 4. Linearization and macrogrammatical fields; 5. Macrogrammar and the linearization of structural segments; 6. Neurolinguistic evidence for the Grammatical Dualism Assumption; 7. Conclusions
Author : J. E. Miller
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198236565
Jim Miller and Regina Weinert investigate syntactic structure and the organization of discourse in spontaneous spoken language. Using data from English, German, and Russian, they develop a systematic analysis of spoken English and highlight properties that hold across languages.
Author : Klaus Zechner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1351676113
Automated Speaking Assessment: Using Language Technologies to Score Spontaneous Speech provides a thorough overview of state-of-the-art automated speech scoring technology as it is currently used at Educational Testing Service (ETS). Its main focus is related to the automated scoring of spontaneous speech elicited by TOEFL iBT Speaking section items, but other applications of speech scoring, such as for more predictable spoken responses or responses provided in a dialogic setting, are also discussed. The book begins with an in-depth overview of the nascent field of automated speech scoring—its history, applications, and challenges—followed by a discussion of psychometric considerations for automated speech scoring. The second and third parts discuss the integral main components of an automated speech scoring system as well as the different types of automatically generated measures extracted by the system features related to evaluate the speaking construct of communicative competence as measured defined by the TOEFL iBT Speaking assessment. Finally, the last part of the book touches on more recent developments, such as providing more detailed feedback on test takers’ spoken responses using speech features and scoring of dialogic speech. It concludes with a discussion, summary, and outlook on future developments in this area. Written with minimal technical details for the benefit of non-experts, this book is an ideal resource for graduate students in courses on Language Testing and Assessment as well as teachers and researchers in applied linguistics.
Author : Shlomo Izre'el
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 2020-07-15
Category :
ISBN : 9789027204974
What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-driven approach. They share a strong conviction that prosodic structure is essential for the study of spoken discourse and each bring their own theoretical and practical experience to the table. In the first part of the book they segment spoken material from a range of different languages (Russian, Hebrew, Central Pomo (an indigenous language from California), French, Japanese, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese). In the second part of the book each author analyzes the same two spoken English samples, but looking at them from different perspectives, using different methods of analysis as reflected in their respective analyses in Part I. This approach allows for common tendencies of segmentation to emerge, both prosodic and segmental.
Author : Sabine Kowal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 2009-03-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 038777632X
In contrast to traditional approaches of mainstream psycholinguists, the authors of Communicating with One Another approach spontaneous spoken discourse as a dynamic process, rich with structures, patterns, and rules other than conventional grammar and syntax. Daniel C. O’Connell and Sabine Kowal thoroughly critique mainstream psycholinguistics, proposing instead a shift in theoretical focus from experimentation to field observation, from monologue to dialogue, and from the written to the spoken. They invoke four theoretical principles: intersubjectivity, perspectivity, open-endedness, and verbal integrity. Their analyses of historical and original research raise significant questions about the relationship between spoken and written discourse, particularly with regard to transcription and punctuation. With emphasis on political discourse, media interviews, and dramatic performance, the authors review both familiar and unexplored characteristics of spontaneous spoken communication, including: (1) The speaker’s use of prosody. (2) The functions of interjections. (3) What fillers do for a living. (4) Turn-taking: Smooth and otherwise. (5) Laughter, applause, and booing: from individual listener to collective audience. (6) Pauses, silence, and the art of listening. The paradigm shift proposed in Communicating with One Another will interest and provoke readers concerned about communicative language use – including psycholinguists, sociolinguists, and anthropological linguists.
Author : Jim Miller
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,77 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Colloquial language
ISBN : 9781383012286
An investigation of syntactic structure and organization of discourse in spontaneous spoken language, this book develops a systematic analysis of spoken English, highlighting features common across all languages.
Author : Alan Cienki
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004336230
Cognitive linguistics is purported to be a usage-based approach, yet only recently has research in some of its subfields turned to spontaneous spoken (versus written) language data. The collection of Alan Cienki’s Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics considers what it means to apply different approaches from within this field to the dynamic, multimodal combination of speech and gesture. The lectures encompass such main paradigms as blending and mental space theory, conceptual metaphor and metonymy, construction and cognitive grammars, image schemas, and mental simulation in relation to semantics. Overall, Alan Cienki shows that taking the usage-based commitment seriously with audio-visual data raises new issues and questions for theoretical models in cognitive linguistics. The lectures for this book were given at The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics in May 2013.
Author : Nicole Dehé
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521761921
This book investigates the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in spoken English and implications for a theory of the syntax-prosody interface.
Author : Yoshinori Sagisaka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1461222583
This book presents a collection of papers from the Spring 1995 Work shop on Computational Approaches to Processing the Prosody of Spon taneous Speech, hosted by the ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Re search Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan. The workshop brought together lead ing researchers in the fields of speech and signal processing, electrical en gineering, psychology, and linguistics, to discuss aspects of spontaneous speech prosody and to suggest approaches to its computational analysis and modelling. The book is divided into four sections. Part I gives an overview and theoretical background to the nature of spontaneous speech, differentiating it from the lab-speech that has been the focus of so many earlier analyses. Part II focuses on the prosodic features of discourse and the structure of the spoken message, Part ilIon the generation and modelling of prosody for computer speech synthesis. Part IV discusses how prosodic information can be used in the context of automatic speech recognition. Each section of the book starts with an invited overview paper to situate the chapters in the context of current research. We feel that this collection of papers offers interesting insights into the scope and nature of the problems concerned with the computational analysis and modelling of real spontaneous speech, and expect that these works will not only form the basis of further developments in each field but also merge to form an integrated computational model of prosody for a better understanding of human processing of the complex interactions of the speech chain.
