Collaborative Research: CI-P: Reciprosody - A Repository for Prosodically Annotated Material

韵律是口语交流的重要组成部分。宽松地定义，韵律是“如何说出单词”，而不是“说什么单词”。韵律通常被定义为包括音调、强度和时间——这些参数的系统变化可以强化或增强说话者的预期含义。韵律在每个语言层面提供重要信息，消除语法歧义，增强语义和实用信息，例如通过传达有关短语分组和短语级别突出性的信息。情绪和其他说话者状态信息也通过说话者的韵律来传达。尽管言语的这一方面很重要，但仍然没有得到充分研究。一个主要的限制因素是缺乏大量带有韵律标记的语音样本。纽约市立大学、哥伦比亚大学和麻省理工学院的韵律研究人员正在开发 Reciprosody，这是一个包含韵律注释数据和分析工具的网络资源。 Recirosody 为不断增长的多元化研究人员、学生和技术人员群体提供了韵律研究和教学的关键资源。该网站托管任何语言的数据，并根据任何韵律标准进行注释。在存储库中托管数据的唯一限制是它必须免费用于学术和教育活动。交互不仅仅是一个被动的存储库，而且是研究人员和教育工作者定期相互交流的主动资源。这使得该资源不仅成为注释数据的中心，而且成为与正在进行的韵律研究相关的信息和支持的中心。

Prosody is a critical component of spoken communication. Loosely defined, prosody is ?how words are spoken?, as opposed to ?what words are said?. Prosody is typically defined to include pitch, intensity, and timing -- and systematic variation in these parameters can reinforce or augment a speaker?s intended meaning. Prosody provides important information at every linguistic level, disambiguating syntax, augmenting semantics and pragmatic information, e.g. by conveying information about phrasal grouping and phrase-level prominence. Emotions and other speaker-state information are also communicated through a speaker?s prosody. Although this aspect of speech is important, it remains under-investigated. A major limiting factor is the lack of large sample of prosodically labeled speech. Prosody researchers at CUNY, Columbia and MIT are developing Reciprosody, a web source of prosodically annotated data and tools for analysis. Reciprosody makes critical resources for the study and teaching of prosody available to a growing and diverse population of researchers, students, and technologists. This website hosts data in any language, annotated under any prosody standard. The only restriction for hosting data in the repository is that it must be made freely available for academic and educational activities. Reciprosody is not merely a passive repository, but an active resource for researchers and educators to communicate with each other on a regular basis. This enables the resource to be a center not only for annotated data, but information and support related to ongoing prosody research.