Speech perception, prosody and intonation
Sonia Cenceschi
DEIB PhD student, ARCSLab
DEIB - 3A Room
November 9th, 2016
2.00 pm
Research Line:
Advanced software architectures and methodologies
DEIB PhD student, ARCSLab
DEIB - 3A Room
November 9th, 2016
2.00 pm
Research Line:
Advanced software architectures and methodologies
Abstract
The seminar will trace the salient contents of the Summer School on Prosody organized by the Laboratoire Parole et Langage of the Université de Provence. Verbal communication rests on the sound of the voice, a sound that is modulated in accordance with social and communication patterns from the interesting aspects. Prosody and intonation of speech vary according to the message, and its comprehensibility is strongly related to the creation of common schemes and the construction of a shared communicative environment between speakers and listeners. The study of the acoustic parameters content in verbal production allows to delve into the complex verbal interaction dynamics and to give an overview of related issues.
Short Bio
Sonia Cenceschi is a PhD student of Politecnico di Milano, member of the ARCSLab research group at DEIB department. After a degree in Engineering at the University of Pisa with a dissertation in acoustics, she gets a Master degree in Electronic Music and Audio Technologies at the Conservatory of Music G. Verdi in Como with an thesis on perception related to digital audio restoration. In 2010 she attended the Masterclass SAMPL (DEI and C. Pollini Conservatory of Padua) dedicated to the conservation, restoration and use of recordings and in the same year she starts to practice as professional in forensic and music applications of digital audio restoration and analysis. In 2013 she founded the audio forensics group Cencor, with the purpose of expanding the use of digital technologies for the analysis of the voice. Since 2014 she is a registered as audio forensics expert at the Tribunal of Como and actively collaborates with the Italian Financial Police. She spent a period at the Department of Forensic Speech Science at York University, studying the differences between Italian and English prosody and timbre.