ESCA - Tutorial and Research Workshop on
Intonation: Theory, Models and Applications
Athens, Greece. September 18-20, 1997

Preliminary Scientific Program

DAY 1: Thursday, September 18, 1997

08.00-09.00 REGISTRATION
09.00-09.10 WELCOME ADDRESS
Dimitrios Avramopoulos
Mayor of Athens Municipality
George Babiniotis
Professor of Linguistics, Athens University
09.10-09.20 OPENING SESSION
Antonis Botinis
Intonation : Theory, Models and Applications
09.20-10.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Mario Rossi
Intonation: Past, Present and Future
10.00-10.30 ORAL SESSION 1
Chair : Robert Bannert
Invited Lecture: Julia Hirshberg
Intonation Theory
10.30-11.00 COFFEE
11.00-12.00 ORAL SESSION 2
Chair : Anne Wichmann
11.00-11.20 Hermes, D., Beaugendre, F. and House, D.
Temporal alignment of accentuation boundaries in Dutch
11.20-11.40 Gussenhoven, C. and Rietveld, T.
Empirical evidence for the contrast L* and H* in Dutch rising contours
11.40-12.00 Fretheim, T., van Dommelen W. and Nilsen, R.A.
Intonational phrasing, clause order, and concessive interpretation of Norwegian conditionals
12.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.00 ORAL SESSION 3
Chair: Anita Kruckenberg
14.00-14.20 Grabe, E., Gussenhoven, C., Haan, J., Marsi, E. and Post, B.
The meaning of intonation phrase onsets in Dutch
14.20-14.40 Hirschberg, J. and Avesani, C.
The role of prosody in disambiguating potentially ambiguous utterances in English and Italian
14.40-15.00 Nakatani, C.
Bootstrapping on citation form accent assignment
15.00-16.30 POSTER SESSION I
1. Renato, A., Alvarez, J. and Caballero, L.
Boundary tones pitch and ending movements in Argentinian Spanish
2. Alter, K.A., and Pirker, HP.
On the specification of sentence initial F0-patterns in German
3. Batliner, A., Kiebling, A., Kompe, R., Niemann, H.and Noth, E.
Can we tell apart intonation from prosody (if we look at accents and boundaries)?
4. Beaugendre, F., House, D. and Hermes, D.
Accentuation boundaries in Dutch, French and Swedish
5. van Donzel, M. and Koopmans-van Beinum, F.
Pitch accents, boundary tones, and information structure in spontaneous discourse in Dutch
6. D’ Imperio, M. and Gili-Fivela, B.
Focus, phrasing and boundary phenomena in Italian read speech
7. Maghbouleh, A.
Prosodic phrasing without syntax via part-of-speech amalgamation
8. Garcia-Lecumberri, M., Cabrera-Abreu, M. and Maidment, J.
The realisation of focus accent in English ans Spanish: Similarities and differences
9. Astesano, C., Espesser, R., Flachaire, E. and Nicolas, P.
Tonal configurations of prominence in French
10. Fitzpatrick-Cole, J. and Lahiri, A.
Focus, intonation and phrasing in Bengali and English
11. Portele, T.
Perceptual evidence for accent categories: Preliminaries and first results
12. Frota, S.
Association, alignment, and meaning: The tonal sequence HL and focus in European Portuguese
13. Botinis, A. and Bannert R.
Tonal perception of focus in Greek and Swedish
14. Gaminde, I., Hernaez, I., Etxeberria, P. and Etxebarria, B.
An analysis of the intonation for a pitch accent variety of the Basque language
15. de la Mota Gorriz, C.
Prosody of sentences with contrastive new information in Spanish
16. Tramboulis, T.
Stress and katathesis within spontaneous oral Greek narration
17. Madureira, S. and Fontes, M.
Fundamental contours in Brazilian Portuguese words
18. Martin, P.
Sentence intonation in four Romance languages
19. Konopczynski, G., Santi, S., Embarki, M. and Bertrand, R.
F0 declination line: new evidence from infants’ and children’s speech (9-30 months): a preliminary research
20. Rialland, A. and Robert, S.
Morphosyntax and intonation in Wolof: the coherence of a system
21. Dogil, G., Kuhn, J., Mayer, J., Mohler, G. and Rapp, S.
Prosody and discourse structure: Issues and experiments
22. Vella, A.
Intonational variation across dialects: An intonational phonology approach
23. Grabe, E.
Comparative intonational phonology: English and German
24. Ode , C.
The realization of types of tone in different positions of utterances in Mpur (West Papuan Phylum): an experimental phonetic analysis
25. van Heuven, V., Haan, J., Janse, E., and van der Torre, E.
Perceptual identification of sentence type and the time-distribution of prosodic interrogativity markers in Dutch
26. Lim, L.
Intonation patterns characterising three ethnic varieties of English in Singapore: Observations and implications
27. Goldman, J and Wehrli E.
Deriving prosodic patterns from syntactic structures: The cases of extraposition, clefts and parentheticals
28. Wichmann, A., House, J. and Ritveld T.
Peak displacement and topic structure
29. Jun, S.A. and Elordieta, G.
Intonational structure of Lekeitio Basque
30. Taff, A.
Intonation patterns in Unangan (Eastern Aleut)
16.30-17.00 COFFEE
17.00-20.00 Sounion cape Tour
20.00 Workshop Dinner

 

DAY 2: Friday, September 19, 1997

09.00-10.30 ORAL SESSION 4
Chair: Christine Nakatani
09.00-09.30 Invited Lecture: Gosta Bruce
Models of Intonation - From the Lund Horizon
09.30-09.50 van Santen, J. and Moebius, B.
Modeling pitch accent curves
09.50-10.10 Fujisaki, H. and Ohno, S.
Comparison and assessment of models in the study of fundamental frequency contours of speech
10.10-10.30 Mixdorff, H.
Production of broad and narrow focus in German - A study applying a quantitative model
10.30-11.00 COFFEE
11.00-12.00 ORAL SESSION 5
Chair: Vincent van Heuven
11.00-11.20 Wright, H. and Taylor, P.
Modelling intonation using Hidden Markov Models
11.20-11.40 Nolan, F. and Grabe, E.
Can “ToBI” transcribe intonational variation in British English?
11.40-12.00 Grover, C., Heuft, B. and van Coile, B.
The reliability of labelling word prominence and prosodic boundary strength
12.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.00 ORAL SESSION 6
Chair: Carlos Gussenhoven
14.00-14.20 Campbell, N. and Beckman, M.
Stress, prominence, and spectral Tilt
14.20-14.40 Swerts, M. and Veldhuis, R.
Interactions between intonation and glottal-pulse characteristics
14.40-15.00 Fant, G., Kruckenberg, A., Hertegard, S. and Liljencrants, J.
Accentuation and subglottal pressure in Swedish
15.00-16.30 POSTER SESSION II
1. Morlec, Y., Bailly, G. and Auberge, V.
Generating the prosody of attitudes
2. Hirose, K., Kawanami, H. and Ihara, N.
Analysis of intonation in emotional speech
3. Rajouani, A., Loukili, M. and Najim., Z.
A perceptual study of Arabic intonation
4. Haan, J., van Heuven, V., Pacilly, J. and van Bezooijen R.
Intonational characteristics of declarativity and interrogativity in Dutch: a comparison
5. Gavat, I., Zirra, M. and Cula, O.
Intonation evaluation for Romanian language
6. Prieto i Vives, P.
Register shift in Spanish downstepping contours
7. Mayo, C., Aylett, M. and Ladd, R.
Prosodic transcription of Glasgow English: an evaluation study of GlaToBI
8. Jun, S.A. and Fougeron, C.
A phonological model of French intonation
9. Xu, Y. and Wang, Q. E.
What can tone studies tell us about intonation?
10. Mora, E., Hirst, D. and Di Cristo, A.
Intonation features as a form of dialectal distinction in Venezuelan Spanish
11. Garding, E. and Zhang, J.
Tempo effects in Chinese prosodic patterns
12. Douglas-Cowie, E. and Cowie, R.
Macrostructures in prosody: The case of phonecalls
13. Yelkina, N.
Interplay of psycholinguistic and semantic factors in the temporal organisation of spoken academic discourse
14. Heuft, B. and Portele, T.
Comparing two methods of developing a rule system for prosody
15. Palkova, Z.
Modelling intonation in Czech: neutral vs. marked TTS F0-patterns
16. Vainio, M., Altosaar, T., Karjalainen, M. and Aulanko, R.
Modeling Finnish microprosody for speech synthesis
17. Bartkova, K.
Some experiments about the use of prosodic parameters in speech recognition system
18. Caelen-Haumont, G. and Bessac, M.
From reading to spontaneous dialogue: On the track of an information processing model to explain pitch variations in lexical words
19. D’ Imperio, M.
Narrow focus and focal accent in the Neapolitan variety of Italian
20. Campione, E., Flachaire, E., Hirst, D. and Veronis, J.
Stylisation and symbolic coding of F0: A quantitative model
21. Brindopke, C. and Schaffranietz, B.
Evaluation of an intonation model for German spontaneous speech
22. Bruce, G., Filipsson, M., Frid, J., Granstrom, B., Gustafson, K., Horne, M. and House, D.
Global features in the modelling of intonation in spontaneous Swedish
23. Malliopoulos, C. and Carayannis, G.
An F0 generation algorithm for the Greek language
24. Ding, H. and Helbig, J.
Natural tone contours in a Mandarin Chinese speech synthesizer
25. Delaney, M. and Monaghan, A.I.C.
SAMBA Prosody in an airline announcement generation system
26. Fujisaki, H., Ohno, S. and Yagi, T.
The application of the command-response model to the synthesis of fundamental frequency contours of various languages
27. Koval, S., Khitrov, M. and Raev, A.
Working technology for melody investigation and check-up of pitch detection correctness
28. Bassols, N.
Validating and porting a model of intonation for text-to-speech applications
29. Dusterhoff, K. and Black, A.
Generating F0 contours for speech synthesis using the Tilt intonation theory
30. Marcelino, M. and Rocca, P.
Teaching intonation to Brazilian learners of English
16.30-17.00 COFFEE
17.00-20.00 Guest Workshops
20.00 Workshop Dinner

 

DAY 3: Saturday, September 20, 1997

09.00-10.30 ORAL SESSION 7
Chair: David House
09.00-09.30 Invited Lecture: Bjorn Granstrom
Applications of Intonation - An Overview
09.30-09.50 Di Cristo, A., Di Cristo, P. and Veronis, J.
A metrical model of rhythm and intonation for French text-to-speech synthesis
09.50-10.10 Mersdorf, J., Rinscheid, A., Bruggen, M. and Schmidt, K.
Coding of large intonational units by linear prediction
10.10-10.30 Moen, I. and Sundet, K.
An acoustic investigation of intonation in the speech of a Norwegian patient with a left hemisphere lesion
10.30-11.00 COFFEE
11.00-12.00 ORAL SESSION 8
Chair: Dik Hermes
11.00-11.20 Brondsted, T.
Intonation contours “distorted” by tone patterns of stress groups and word accents
11.20-11.40 Farnetani, E. and Zmarich, C.
Prominence patterns in Italian : an analysis of F0 and duration
11.40-12.00 Shih, C.
Declination in Mandarin
12.00-12.10 CLOSING SESSION
Georgios Kouroupetroglou
12.10-14.00 FAREWELL LUNCH

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