Prosody

We present a speech rhythm analysis workflow based on two different but complementary methodologies: one at a segmental/syllabic level, and another one at a suprasegmental/prosodic level. This bimodal methodology is devised to study the effects of …

A growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to rhythmic auditory patterns can modulate the processing of subsequently heard speech, at various levels of processing. In the current study, we aimed to test whether this effect, known as rhythmic …

In this contribution, we present the results of a pilot study on the impact of rhythmic priming, i.e. listening to rhythmic auditory stimuli, on speech production in Parkinson’s disease. We were interested in prosody, which is one of the aspects often reported to be strongly impaired in Parkinson’s disease.

Speech impairment in Parkinson’s disease - effect of rhythm and neural entrainment.

Research on the impact of gestures as corrective feedback on the pronunciation of learners of French as a foreign language, as per the verbotonal method.

Interphonology of English Learner Prosody - Un corpus pour l'étude de la prosodie des apprenants d'anglais

Cette thèse est une étude de l’interlangue prosodique des apprenants d’anglais dont la langue maternelle est le français ou l’espagnol. Elle est organisée en deux parties principales. La première est une étude sur les méthodes de conception et de …

Nous avons appliqué l’algorithme Momel (Hirst & Espesser, 1993) et l’étiquetage automatique Intsint à un corpus d’énoncés produits par des natifs anglophones déjà transcrit en ToBI (Beckman & Ayers, 1997) afin d’observer les équivalences entre les …