Intonation is an integral part of communication for all speakers. But can sign languages have intonation? A new study shows that signers use their faces to create intonational ‘melodies’ just as ...

Research is part of an international project that includes the language as spoken in Brazil in a database of several Romance languages (photo: FFLCH-USP) Agência FAPESP – In addition to its own ...

We have intensively discussed speech sounds in this class. The aim has been to improve on how we pronounce words. Today, we are building on what I hope has been achieved by looking at the concept of ...

Raúl Sánchez and Dan Bullock are linguistics and communications specialists and NYU professors. They say improving vocalics, aka nonverbal aspects of speech, is key for effective communication. Vocal ...

Adults learning another language often tend to continue using the intonation of their native language. This causes them to make mistakes in the new language: incorrect intonation can change the ...

Abstract: Sentiment analysis has been a significant topic in Natural Language Processing, human-computer interaction as well as emotion recognition technology. Exclamation, either complimentary or ...