Prominence and Intonation in Singapore English

Adam J. Chong, and James S. German. 2023. Journal of Phonetics 98 (May): 101240   —  @HAL Previous work on Singapore English prosody has focused largely on establishing the acoustic correlates of lexical stress and examining where the language falls within a rhythm-class typology. Little attention, however, has been paid to how lexical prominence, if […]

An Arabic Probabilistic Parser Based on a Property Grammar

Raja Bensalem, Kais Haddar, and Philippe Blache. 2023. ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing 22 (10): 1–25  —  @HAL The specificities of the Arabic parsing such as the agglutination, the vocalization and the relatively order-free of words in the Arabic sentences, remain a major issue to consider. To promote its robustness, such […]

A Small, but Vocal, Brain

Pascal Belin, Régis Trapeau, and Manon Obliger-Debouche. 2023. Cell Reports 42 (6): 112651  —  @HAL In the May issue of Cell Reports, Jafari et al.1 used ultra-high-field fMRI to show that marmosets, like humans and macaques, possess an extensive network of voice-selective areas.

The Relevance of the Unique Anatomy of the Human Prefrontal Operculum to the Emergence of Speech

Céline Amiez, Charles Verstraete, Jérôme Sallet, Fadila Hadj-Bouziane, Suliann Ben Hamed, Adrien Meguerditchian, Emmanuel Procyk, et al. 2023. Communications Biology 6 (1): 693  —  @HAL Identifying the evolutionary origins of human speech remains a topic of intense scientific interest. Here we describe a unique feature of adult human neuroanatomy compared to chimpanzees and other primates […]