Papers on Acoustic correlates of prosody

Yoon, T., Cole, J., and Hasegawa-Johnson, M. 2007. On the edge: Acoustic cues to layered prosodic domains. In Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbruecken, Germany. [pdf]

Lee, E-K., Cole, J., Kim, H. (2006). Additive effects of phrase boundary on English accented vowels. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden. [pdf]

Kim, H., Yoon, T., Cole, J., and Hasegawa-Johnson, M. (to appear, 2006). Acoustic differentiation of L- and L-L% in Switchboard and Radio News speech. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden. [pdf]

Lee, E-K., and Cole, J. (2006). Acoustic effects of prosodic boundary on vowels in American English. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, IL. [pdf]

Cole, J., Kim, H., Choi, H. and Hasegawa-Johnson, M. (to appear, 2006). Prosodic effects on acoustic cues to stop voicing and place of articulation: Evidence from Radio News speech. J Phonetics.Author's version text [pdf] figures [pdf]

Choi, J-Y., Hasegawa-Johnson, M. and Cole, J. (2005). Finding intonational boundaries using acoustic cues related to the voice source. J Acoustical Society of America, 118(4):2579-88.

Kim, H. and Cole, J. (2005). The stress foot as a unit of planned timing: Evidence from shortening in the prosodic phrase. Proceedings of Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal. [pdf]

Chavarría, S., Yoon, T-J., Cole, J., Hasegawa-Johnson, M. (2004). Acoustic differentiation of ip and IP boundary levels: Comparison of L- and L-L% in the Switchboard Corpus. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan. [pdf]

Yoon, T., Chavarría, S., Cole, J., and Hasegawa-Johnson, M. (2004). Intertranscriber reliability of prosodic labeling on telephone conversation using ToBI. In Proceedings of the ISCA International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2004), Jeju, Korea, pp. 2729-2732. [pdf]

Kim, H, Cole, J., Choi, H., Hasegawa-Johnson, M. (2004). The effect of accent on acoustic cues to stop voicing and place of articulation in radio news speech. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan. [pdf]

Cole, J. Choi, H., and Kim, H. (2004). Acoustic evidence for the effect of accent on CV coarticulation in Radio News speech. In Agwuele, A., Warren. W., and Park, S. (eds.), Proceedings of the 2003 Texas Linguistics Conference, pp. 62-72. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. [pdf]

Cole, J., H. Choi, H. Kim, and M. Hasegawa-Johnson. 2003. The effect of accent on the acoustic cues to stop voicing in Radio News Speech. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Phonetic Sciences, pp. 2665-2668. Barcelona. [pdf]

Cole, J., J.I. Hualde, and K. Iskarous. 1999. Effects of Prosodic and Segmental Context on /g/-Lenition in Spanish. In O. Fujimura, B.D. Joseph, and B. Palek (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Linguistics and Phonetics Conference, pp. 575-589.

Hualde, J.I., Smiljanic, R. and J. Cole. 1999. On the accented/unaccented distinction in Western Basque and the typology of Accentual Systems. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meetings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.

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Papers on Prosody and disfluency modeling for automatic speech recognition

Yoon, T., Zhuang, X., Cole, J., Hasegawa-Johnson, M. (to appear).Voice quality dependent speech recognition, In Tseng, S. (Ed.), Linguistic Patterns of Spontaneous Speech, Special Issue of Language and Linguistics, Academica Sinica. [pdf]

 

Chen, K., Hasegawa-Johnson, M. Cohen, A., Borys, S., Kim, S-S., Cole, J., and Choi, J-Y . (2006). Prosody dependent speech recognition on Radio News corpus of American English. IEEE Transactions in Speech and Audio Processing. 14(1):232-245.

Choi, J-Y., Hasegawa-Johnson, M. and Cole, J. (2005). Finding intonational boundaries using acoustic cues related to the voice source. J Acoustical Society of America, 118(4):2579-88.

Cole, J., Hasegawa-Johnson, M., Shih, C., Kim, H., Lee, E., Lu, H., Mo, Y., Yoon, T. (2005). Prosodic parallelism as a cue to repetition disfluency. Proceedings of DiSS ’05, Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech Workshop, Aix-en-Provence, France, pp. 53-58. [pdf]

Hasegawa-Johnson, M., Chen, K., Cole, J., Borys, S., Kim, S., Cohen, A., Zhang, T., Choi, J., Kim, H., Yoon, T., Chavarria, S. (2005). Simultaneous recognition of words and prosody in the Boston University radio speech corpus. Speech Communication, v. 46, Issues 3-4, pp. 418-439.

Yoon, T.J., Cole, J., Hasegawa-Johnson, M. and Shih, C. (2005). Acoustic correlates of non-modal phonation in telephone speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 117(4), p. 2621.

Borys, S., Hasegawa-Johnson, M., Cole, J., and Cohen, A. (2004). Modeling and recognition of phonetic and prosodic factors for improvements to continuous speech recognition systems. Proceedings HLT-NAACL, Boston, Massachusetts. [pdf]

Chen, K., Hasegawa-Johnson, M., Cohen, A., and Cole, J. (2004). A maximum-likelihood prosody recognizer. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan. [pdf]

Ren, Y., Kim, S., Hasegawa-Johnson, M., and Cole, J. 2004. "Speaker-Independent Automatic Detection of Pitch Accent." ISCA International Conference on Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan. [pdf]

Hasegawa-Johnson, M., Cole, J., Shih, C., Chen, K., Cohen, A., Chavarría, S., Kim, H., Yoon, T. Borys, S., and Choi, J. (2004). Speech recognition models of the interdependence among syntax, prosody and segmental acoustics. Proceedings HLT-NAACL, Boston, Massachusetts. [pdf]

Chen, K., Hasegawa-Johnson, M., and Cole, J. (2003). Prosody dependent speech recognition with explicit duration modeling at intonational phrase boundaries. Proceedings Eurospeech 2003, Geneva. [pdf]

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Papers on The phonetic bases of vowel harmony

Cole, J. and K. Iskarous. 2001. Effects of vowel context on consonant place identification: implications for a theory of phonologization. In E. Hume and K. Johnson (eds.), The Role of Speech Perception in Phonology, pp. 103-122. New York: Academic Press.Author's version [pdf]

Cole, J. 1998. Deconstructing metaphony. Rivista di Linguistica, 10: 69-98.

Talks and poster presentations

"Emergent feature structures: Harmony systems in exemplar models of phonology," Indiana University Linguistics Colloquium, Sept. 2007. Slides [pdf]

"Converging Evidence for the Emergent Phonology of Harmony Systems,” Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences Colloquium, U Rochester. April 2006. Slides [pdf]

“Evidence for a production bias in vowel harmony” Poster, 8th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Yale University, June 2002. Poster [ppt]

“Exploring the link between grammar and speech processing.” Johns Hopkins University Cognitive Science Colloquium, Nov. 2000. Slides [pdf]

2000, July: “Is Vowel Harmony Perceptually Motivated?” Poster presentation at the Seventh Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Nijmegan, Netherlands.

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Papers on Phonotactic learning

Koo, H. and Cole, J. (2007, to appear). Gradient perceptual facilitation from phonotactic knowledge. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago. [pdf]

 

Koo, H. and Cole, J. (2006) On Learnability and Naturalness as Constraints on Phonological Grammar. In A. Botinis (ed.), Proceedings of ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, pp. 174-177. University of Athens.Athens. [pdf]

Guest, D., G. Dell and J. Cole. 2000. Violable constraints in language production: Testing the transitivity assumption of Optimality Theory. Journal of Memory and Language, 42: 272-299.

Talks

“Complexity and perceptual factors in phonotactic learning,” with Hahn Koo, 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, CA. Slides [pdf]

“Converging Evidence for the Emergent Phonology of Harmony Systems,” Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences Colloquium, U Rochester, April 2006. Slides [pdf]

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Papers on Prosody variation in American English dialects: AAVE

“Intonational Distinctiveness of African American English,” with E. Thomas, E Britt and E. Cogshall, NWAV 34, New York, NY, October 2005. Slides [pdf]

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