The project’s goal is to create an American Sign Language (ASL) data resource that focuses on documenting visual prosody, which includes, for example, non-manual markers that convey meaning and ...

I've been intrigued by parrots, and intelligent birds in general, since I started hearing about Alex, an African Grey parrot trained in language skills. My friend Ken Kulosa has a green parrot named ...

Sun Studios, where Elvis Presley recorded “Mystery Train” in 1955. Photo by Kate Cauthen. Okay, so who still cares about the young Elvis and his Memphis-based Sun Records recordings? And why does ...

There are different branches of linguistics that deal with sounds and all of their unique aspects. One branch in particular, known as prosody, is the study of bigger speech sound units and syllables.

Prosody and intonation are fundamental components of spoken language, encompassing rhythm, stress, pitch variation and timing that go beyond mere lexical content. These suprasegmental features not ...

Once upon a midnight dreary, an English professor at Princeton sat in her office, musing over many volumes of forgotten lore about the right way to read a poem. There were handbooks, essays, letters ...

Our own David Yezzi, Executive Editor of The New Criterion, will be leading a class “On Prosody” this fall at the 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center. According to their online catalog, the study ...

In this paper an attempt has been made to prepare an automatic tonal and non-tonal pre-classification-based Indian language identification (LID) system using multi-level prosody and spectral features.