Recent years have witnessed the remarkable experimental and theoretical advances in prosody. Phoneticians research speech prosody from different perspectives. Vocal communication of emotion [15, 16, 20,21] and encoding emotions in speech [8, 10, 11, 22] belong to the relevant issues discussed by researchers in the light of modern tendencies to use artificial intelligence, synthetic speech in different spheres of human activity and the desire to achieve naturalness of synthetic prosody.In-depth analysis of the role of prosodic features, communicating emotions [4] and the role of voice quality in expressing emotion, mood and attitude [5] was conducted to shed light on this complex issue. Evaluation and meaning of pitch contours is widely discussed in [12, 14, 18, 19]. Prosodic organization and phrasing of read speech [17, 7], ways of achieving prosodic prominence [9]promote deeper understanding of the role of speech prosody.
THE ROLE OF PROSODY IN READ SPEECH STYLE DIFFERENTIATION
Nataliia Zadorizhna (Kyiv, Ukraine) | Download article