In this paper, syllable duration (Vowel-to-Vowel unit) and F0 variation are analyzed as cues to distinguish the prosodization of prepositional clitic-host sequence from a syllable within a prosodic word in Brazilian ...

This present study aims to demonstrate, through experimental evidences, that both Brazilian and European Portuguese (BP and EP) speakers use prosodic cues on input of sentences processing early and they build syntactic ...

In this work, we propose a novel re-sampling method based on word lattice information and we use prosodic cues with support vector machines for classification. The idea is to consider word recognition as a two-class ...

As interactive voice response systems become more prevalent and provide increasingly more complex functionality, it becomes clear that the challenges facing such systems are not solely in their synthesis and recognition ...

In dialogue, speakers produce and perceive acoustic/prosodic turn-taking cues, which are fundamental for negotiating turn exchanges with their interlocutors. However, little of the temporal dynamics and cross-linguistic ...

This dissertation arose from questions about the ambiguity in syntactic constructions like NP1-V-NP2-attribute as in The boy hugged the friend sweating (O rapaz abraçou o amigo suado), which can happen in Brazilian Portuguese. ...

Introdução: A prosódia envolve aspectos verbais e gestuais na comunicação humana que afetam diretamente o significado dos enunciados e acrescentam informações essenciais ao que foi dito. Não há estudos que se dedicaram ...