No Time to Lose? Time Shrinking Effects enhance the Impression of Rhythmic "Isochrony" and Fast Speech Rate

Wagner P, Windmann A. No Time to Lose? Time Shrinking Effects enhance the Impression of Rhythmic "Isochrony" and Fast Speech Rate. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2009. 2009: 1523-1526.Time Shrinking denotes the psychoacoustic shrinking effect of a short interval on one or several subsequent longer intervals. Its effectiveness in the domain of speech perception has so far not been examined. Two perception experiments clearly suggest the influence of relative duration patterns triggering time shrinking on the perception of tempo and rhythmical isochrony or rather ”evenness”. A comparison between the experimental data and duration patterns across various languages suggest a strong influence of time shrinking on the impression of isochrony in speech and perceptual speech rate. Our results thus emphasize the necessity of taking into account relative timing within rhythmical domains such as feet, phrases or narrow rhythm units as a complementary perspective to popular global rhythm variability metrics. Index Terms: prosody, perception, rhythm, timing, temp

Optimization-based modeling of suprasegmental speech timing

Windmann A. Optimization-based modeling of suprasegmental speech timing. Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld; 2016

Re-enacted and Spontaneous Conversational Prosody — How Different?

Wagner P, Windmann A. Re-enacted and Spontaneous Conversational Prosody — How Different? In: Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016. Boston; 2016

What do regression analyses of inter-stress interval duration really measure?

Windmann A, Simko J, Wagner P. What do regression analyses of inter-stress interval duration really measure? In: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow; 2015: A-66

Kompressionseffekte und wortfinale Längung im Englischen

Windmann A, Simko J, Wagner P. Kompressionseffekte und wortfinale Längung im Englischen. Presented at the Phonetik und Phonologie 10, Konstanz

Polysyllabic Shortening and Word-Final Lengthening in English

Windmann A, Simko J, Wagner P. Polysyllabic Shortening and Word-Final Lengthening in English. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2015. 2015: 36-40

Probing Theories of Speech Timing using Optimization Modeling

Windmann A, Simko J, Wagner P. Probing Theories of Speech Timing using Optimization Modeling. In: Proceedings of Speech Prosody 7. Dublin, Ireland; 2014: 346-350.We implement two theories about the temporal organization of speech in an optimization-based model of speech timing and conduct simulation experiments in order to test whether both theories can account for the phenomenon of foot-level shortening (FLS) observed in English speech corpora. Results suggest that a model that induces compensatory timing relations between syllables and feet predicts empirical results very accurately. However, we also observe that the FLS effect can equally well be explained under the assumption that suprasegmental timing is confined to localized lengthening effects at the heads and edges of prosodic domains. Implications for theories of speech timing are discussed

A Unified Account of Prominence Effects in an Optimization-Based Model of Speech Timing

Windmann A, Simko J, Wagner P. A Unified Account of Prominence Effects in an Optimization-Based Model of Speech Timing. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2014. 2014: 159-163

Teasing apart lexical stress and sentence accent in Hungarian and German

Szalontai Á, Wagner P, Mády K, Windmann A. Teasing apart lexical stress and sentence accent in Hungarian and German. In: Tagungsband 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P 12). 2016: 216-219