Course description
Prosody in spoken communication generally refers to those aspects of speech that fall outside the segmental information about consonants and vowels (e.g., intonation, stress, rhythm). Still, this course will describe how suprasegmental prosody and segmental cues in speech are tightly interconnected. As such, it aims to reveal the central role that prosody plays in low-level speech perception and spoken word recognition. Each lecture targets a different processing mechanism by which prosody impacts speech perception, including general-auditory normalization, neural speech tracking, prosody-guided prediction, talker-specific learning, as well as audiovisual integration of multisensory cues to prosody. Thus, prosody - in all its different forms and appearances - is a potent factor in speech perception, determining which words and speech sounds we hear.
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Lecture slides
You can download the slides (PDF) for each individual lecture here:
- Day 1: low-level normalization for prosody
- Day 2: neural tracking of prosody
- Day 3: prosody-guided prediction
- Day 4: talker-specific learning of prosody
- Day 5: audiovisual integration of multisensory prosody
License
All materials are shared under a CC-BY 4.0 license.
2024, Hans Rutger Bosker