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 […]

A Revised Perspective on the Evolution of the Lateral Frontal Cortex in Primates

Céline Amiez, Jérôme Sallet, Camille Giacometti, Charles Verstraete, Clémence Gandaux, Valentine Morel-Latour, Adrien Meguerditchian, et al. 2023. Science Advances 9 (20): eadf9445  —  @HAL Detailed neuroscientific data from macaque monkeys have been essential in advancing understanding of human frontal cortex function, particularly for regions of frontal cortex without homologs in other model species. However, precise […]