Once upon a midnight dreary, an English professor at Princeton sat in her office, musing over many volumes of forgotten lore about the right way to read a poem. There were handbooks, essays, letters ...

Princeton University has created the Princeton Prosody Archive, a full-text searchable database of more than 10,000 digitized records on the teaching of poetry between 1750 and 1923. Prosody refers to ...

There are different branches of linguistics that deal with sounds and all of their unique aspects. One branch in particular, known as prosody, is the study of bigger speech sound units and syllables.

We report two functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments showing enhanced responses in human middle superior temporal sulcus for angry relative to neutral prosody. This emotional enhancement ...

"I am a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Western Washington University. My research focuses on issues in computational models of prosody and speech perception. My ...

Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), Vol. 37 (December 2015), pp. 67-112 (46 pages) This article addresses the challenge of investigating the tonal rules in the work of the three ...

The goal of this study is to collect perceptual observations of speech in dysarthria to analyze how phrasal prominence and boundary are perceived. We are conducting this study online and are ...

‘Polymath’ is a word derived from Greek roots and it means, literally, ‘having learned much’, says Concise Oxford English Dictionary. A polymath is a person who has studied a wide range of subjects ...

This study tests a syntactic property—namely the availability of N- vs. NP-raising in DPs—through prosodic means. The opposition between N- and NP-raising is central to the ongoing debate about the ...

The structure and principles of Kannada prosody has now been introduced in English for the benefit of non-Kannada readers and scholars. Written by B.A. Vivek Rai, former Vice-Chancellor of Kannada ...