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    • Exploring the Prosody of Affective Speech 

      Giovannini, Anna Maria; Ni Chasaide, Ailbhe; Gobl, Christer (2022)
      This paper introduces a research project on voice quality and affect expression. It explores affective prosody by investigating the relationship between voice source parameter changes and perceived affect. Firstly, it ...

    • Lenition alternation in West Gyalrongic and its implications for Southeast Asian panchronic phonology 

      Lai, Yunfan (2023)
      Based on internal reconstruction, this paper resolves a long-standing problem observed in Khroskyabs, a West Gyalrongic language (Sino-Tibetan), that seems to sporadically have lenited voiceless stops, resulting in irregular ...

    • Voice transforms for affect control in Irish speech synthesis 

      Gobl, Christer (2024)
      This paper reports on an experiment using voice transforms to alter the perceived affect in synthetic utterances of Irish, with a view to controlling affect in the spoken output of an Irish AAC device. The transforms ...

    • Wug-testing phonetic prominence in Munster Irish 

      McCabe, Connor Peter (2021)
      8 speakers of Munster Irish were presented with a series of disyllabic nonwords and directed to read them aloud in a carrier phrase. Each nonword corresponded to a different pairing of syllable weights (e.g. light-heavy, ...