@inbook{8436446f9d94447b807d3f64603d2696,
title = "Perceptual Prominence",
abstract = "One of the important functions of prosody is emphasizing linguistic units in contrast to their environment. Perceived prosodic prominence is a gradual parameter which integrates linguistic and paralinguistic influences on one hand, and acoustic parameters on the other hand. We investigate the labelling of prominence as well as acoustic prosodic correlates of prominence on the basis of a database of read speech in which each syllable was labelled with a prominence value on a scale from 0-31, and each boundary with a prominence of value on a scale from 0-9. We also report on linguistic correlates of prominence. Finally, we show that prominence can be redirected reliably from linguistic and/or acoustic features of the signal. For this reason, the notion of prominence is also highly useful for speech synthesis. ",
author = "Thomas Portele and Barbara Heuft and Christina Widera and Petra Wagner and Maria Wolters",
year = "2000",
language = "English",
isbn = "3930110172",
volume = "69",
series = "Forum phoneticum",
publisher = "Hektor, Frankfurt a.M.",
pages = "97--116",
booktitle = "Speech and Signals. Aspects of Speech Synthesis and Automatic Speech Recognition.",
}