Prosody, Speech Synthesis and Cognitive Linguistics
Tomasz Kuczmarski · 2011
The current paper discusses a way to employ methods and utilities provided by computational cognitive linguistics in speech technology research. First, the currently predominant methodologies are briefly discussed. It is shown that some problems regarding the naturalness of synthetic voices, such as prosody, are intractable within the ruling framework. Therefore, a special case of Construction Grammar (CxG) – Embodied Construction Grammar is proposed as a method to investigate spoken language holistically. It is suggested that this approach might show some prosodic dependencies which can hardly be studied in another way. At the end of the article some intuitions about the anticipated results are covered.