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Tuesday, May 2

Keynote Speaker 1: Julia Hirschberg   Tuesday, May 2, 10:00
Special Session 1 (SPS1):
Prosody and Affective Computing
Tuesday, May 2, 11:10
No. Paper Author(s) Title
1   Batliner, A.; Biersack, S.; Steidl, S. The Prosody of Pet Robot Directed Speech: Evidence from Children.
2   Trouvain, J.; Schmidt, S.; Schröder, M.; Schmitz, M.; Barry, W. J. Modelling personality features by changing prosody in synthetic speech
3   Grimm, M.; Kroschel, K.; Narayanan, S. Modeling Emotion Expression and Perception Behavior in Auditive Emotion Evaluation
4   Schröder, M.; Heylen, D.; Poggi, I. Perception of Non-Verbal Emotional Listener Feedback
5   Audibert, N.; Vincent, D.; Aubergé, V.; Rosec, O. Expressive Speech Synthesis: Evaluation of a Voice Quality Centered Coder on the Different Acoustic Dimensions
6   Campbell, N. On the Structure of Spoken Language
Poster Session 1 (PS 1):  
Prosody and Speech Perception
Tuesday, May 2, 14:30
No. Paper Author(s) Title
1   Shevchenko, T.; Uglova, N. Timing in News and Weather Forecasts: Implications for Perception
2   Irwin, A.; Thomas, S. M. Identification of language and accent through visual speech
3   Dimou, A.-L.; Chalamandaris, A. Dialect identification through prosodic information: an experimental approach
4   Meisenburg, T. Fake geminates in French: a production and perception study
5   Dohalská-Zichová, M.; Škardová, R. Interpretation - Perception - Analysis
6   Mathon, C.; Abreu, S. de; Perekopska, D. Perception of Anger in French as Foreign Language : Experimental Protocol and Preliminary Results
7   Wang, L.; Zhao, Y.; Chu, M.; Chen, Y.; Soong, F. K.; Cao, Z. Exploring Expressive Speech Space in an Audio-book
8   Bao, M.; Chu, M. A Comparative Study of Sentential Stress Distribution in Mandarin Multi-Style Speeches
9   Tamburini, F. Reliable Prominence Identification in English Spontaneous Speech
10   Kleber, F. Form and Function of Falling Pitch Contours in English
11   Rathcke, T. Relevance of F0 peak shape and alignment for the perception of a functional contrast in Russian.
12   Falé, I.; Faria, I. H. Categorical Perception of intonational contrasts in European Portuguese
13   Arantes, P.; Barbosa, P. Secondary stress in Brazilian Portuguese: the interplay between production and perception studies
14   Zheng, H.; Peng, G.; Tsang, P. W-M.; Wang, W. S-Y. Perception of Cantonese level tones influenced by context position
15   Xu, L.; Speer, S. R. Perception of Isolated Tone2 words in Mandarin Chinese
16   Wang, X Perception of L2 Tones: L1 Lexical Tone Experience May Not Help
17   Shinya, T. Lexical Accent Status Affects Perceived Prominence of Intonational Peaks in Japanese
18   Yoneyama, K. The recognition of Japanese-accented and unaccented English words by Japanese listeners
19   Cho, H.; Hirst, D. The contribution of silent pauses to the perception of prosodic boundaries in Korean read speech.
20   Dellwo, V.; Ferragne, E.; Pellegrino, F. The perception of intended speech rate in English, French, and German by French listeners
21   Pfitzinger, H. R.; Tamashima, M. Comparing Perceptual Local Speech Rate of German and Japanese Speech
22   Niebuhr, O. The Role of the Accented-Vowel Onset in the Perception of German Early and Medial Peaks
23   Palková, Z.; Volín, J. Clause position within a sentence: human vs. machine recognition
24   Wendt, B.; Brechmann, A.; Gaschler-Markefski, B.; Scheich, H.; Ackermann, H. Lateralized processing in human auditory cortex during the perception of emotional prosody
Poster Session 2 (PS 2):  
Analysis and Formulation of Prosody
Tuesday, May 2, 14:30
No. PaperID Author(s) Title
1   Keane, E. Phonetics vs. phonology in Tamil wh-questions
2   Grabe, E.; Kochanski, G. P.; Coleman, J. Empirical Validation of Hand-labelled Nuclear Accent Patterns
3   Martin, P Phonologies and Phonetics of French Prosody
4   Pfitzinger, H. R.; Reichel, U. D. Text-based and Signal-based Prediction of Break Indices and Pause Durations
5   Breuer, S.; Francuzik, K.; Demenko, G. Analysis of Polish Segmental Duration with CART
6   Demenko, G.; Wagner, A. The stylization of intonation contours
7   Wypych, M. Automatic Pitch Stylization Enhanced with Top-Down Processing
8   Kotnik, B.; Hoege, H.; Kacic, Z. Evaluation of Pitch Detection Algorithms in Adverse Conditions
9   Gu, W.; Hirose, K.; Fujisaki, H. A General Approach for Automatic Extraction of Tone Commands in the Command-Response Model for Tone Languages
10   Wang, X.; Gu, W.; Hirose, K.; Sun, Q.; Minematsu, N. Comparison of Tonal Co-articulation between Intra- and Inter-word Disyllables in Mandarin
11   Niebuhr, O.; Ambrazaitis, G. Alignment of Medial and Late Peaks in German Spontaneous Speech
12   Knoll, M.; Uther, M.; MacLeod, N.; O'Neill, M.; Walsh, S. Emotional, linguistic or just cute? The function of pitch contours in infant- and foreigner-directed speech
13   Li, Y. Tone Ratios Combined with F0 Register in Cantonese as Speaker-dependent Characteristic
14   Prom-on, S.; Xu, Y.;Thipakorn, B. Functional-oriented articulatory modeling of tones and intonations
15   Sityaev, D.; Burrows, T.; Jackson, P.; Knill, K. Analysis and Modelling of Question Intonation in American English
16   Wang, L.; Li, A.; Fang, Q. A Method for Decomposing and Modeling Jitter in Expressive Speech in Chinese
17   Dubeda, T. Intensity as a macroprosodic variable in Czech
18   Bartkova, K. How far can prosodic cues help in word segmentation?
19   Kitazawa, S. Acoustic Features of Japanese Vowel-Vowel Hiatus at Prosodic Boundaries
20   Face, T. Secondary Association of Tones in Castilian Spanish
21   Kügler, F. L-tone affixation: Evidence from German dialects
22   Quené, H. Rhythmic factors in weak-syllable insertion: An internet corpus study
Special Session 2 (SPS 2):  
Auditory-Visual Prosody Processing
Tuesday, May 2, 16:00
No. Paper Author(s) Title
1   Granström, B.; House, D. Measuring and modeling audiovisual prosody for animated agents
2   Krahmer, E.; Swerts, M. Hearing and Seeing Beats: The influence of visual beats on the production and perception of prominence
3   Dijkstra, Ch.; Krahmer, E.; Swerts, M. Manipulating Uncertainty - The contribution of different audiovisual prosodic cues to the perception of confidence
4   Dohen, M.; Lœvenbruck, H.; Hill, H. Visual Correlates of Prosodic Contrastive Focus in French: Description and Inter-Speaker Variability
5   Isei-Jaakkola, T.; Sun, Q.; Hirose, K. Audio and Audio-visual Effects of a Short English Emotional Sentence on Japanese L2's and English L1's Cognition, and Physio-acoustic Correlate
6   Fagel, Sascha Emotional McGurk Effect