The project’s goal is to create an American Sign Language (ASL) data resource that focuses on documenting visual prosody, which includes, for example, non-manual markers that convey meaning and ...

Sun Studios, where Elvis Presley recorded “Mystery Train” in 1955. Photo by Kate Cauthen. Okay, so who still cares about the young Elvis and his Memphis-based Sun Records recordings? And why does ...

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.

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 ...

When good readers read aloud, it sounds like music. The music of reading aloud is called reading prosody, or, in everyday language, reading with expression. Researchers looking at reading prosody ...

"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 ...

You undoubtedly have had experiences in which you’ve inadvertently offended someone, not by what you said necessarily, but by how you said it. Perhaps a restaurant server has been unusually kind and ...