The GROG project GROG n [U] (infml) 1 a drink of spirits, originally RUM, mixed with water and drunk esp by sailors. 2 abbr GRäns Och Gruppering – Strukturering av talet i olika kommunikativa situationer. GROG is supported by the Swedish Research Council (VR) 2002–2004 (http://vrproj.vr.se/detail.asp?arendeid=4869). Goal The purpose of this project is to model the structuring of speech in terms of prosodic boundaries and groupings in various communicative situations. The modeling aims at a structured and optimized description of the relations between the acoustic and linguistic structure on the one hand, and the prosodic/perceptual annotations on the other. For a description of the project, see Carlson, R., Granström, B., Heldner, M., House, D., Megyesi, B., Strangert, E., & Swerts, M. (2002) Boundaries and groupings - the structuring of speech in different communicative situations: a description of the GROG project. Publications Speech Communication Carlson, R., Hirschberg, J., & Swerts, M. (2005). Cues to upcoming Swedish prosodic boundaries: Subjective judgment studies and acoustic correlates. Speech Communication, 46, 326-333. Nordic prosody IX, Lund Heldner, M., Edlund, J. & Carlson, R. (2006). Interruption impossible. In M. Horne & G. Bruce (Eds.), Nordic Prosody: Proceedings of the IXth Conference, Lund 2004 (pp. 97-105). Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang. Strangert, E., & Carlson, R. (2006). On modelling and synthesis of conversational speech . In M. Horne & G. Bruce (Eds.), Nordic Prosody: Proceedings of the IXth Conference, Lund 2004 (pp. 255-264). Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang. Fonetik 2004, Stockholm Strangert, E. (2004). On modeling of conversational speech. In Proceedings of Fonetik 2004. Stockholm. Sjölander, K., & Heldner, M. (2004). Word level precision of the NALIGN automatic segmentation algorithm. In Proceedings of Fonetik 2004. Stockholm. Heldner, M., Edlund, J., & Björkenstam, T. (2004). Automatically extracted F0 features as acoustic correlates of prosodic boundaries. In Proceedings of Fonetik 2004. Stockholm. Speech Prosody 2004, Nara Carlson, R., Elenius, K., & Swerts, M. (2004). Perceptual judgments of pitch range. In Proceedings Speech Prosody 2004. Nara, Japan. Carlson, R., Hirschberg, J., & Swerts, M. (2004). Prediction of upcoming Swedish prosodic boundaries by Swedish and American listeners. In Proceedings Speech Prosody 2004. Nara, Japan. House, D. (2004). Final rises in spontaneous Swedish computer-directed questions: Incidence and function. In Proceedings Speech Prosody 2004. Nara, Japan. Strangert, E. (2004). Speech chunks in conversation: Syntactic and prosodic aspects. In Proceedings Speech Prosody 2004. Nara, Japan. ICPhS'03, Barcelona Carlson, R., & Swerts, M. (2003). Perceptually based prediction of upcoming prosodic breaks in spontaneous Swedish speech materials. In Proceedings ICPhS 2003 (pp. 79-82). Barcelona. Heldner, M., & Megyesi, B. (2003). Exploring the prosody-syntax interface in conversations. In Proceedings ICPhS 2003 (pp. 2501-2504). Barcelona. House, D. (2003). Perceiving question intonation: the role of pre-focal pause and delayed focal peak. In Proceedings ICPhS 2003 (pp. 755-758). Barcelona. Strangert, E. (2003). Emphasis by pausing. In Proceedings ICPhS 2003 (pp. 612-615). Barcelona. Fonetik 2003, Umeå Carlson, R., & Swerts, M. (2003). Relating perceptual judgments of upcoming prosodic breaks to F0 features. In Proceedings from Fonetik 2003 (pp. 181-184). Umeå: Dept. Philosophy and Linguistics, Umeå University. Heldner, M., & Megyesi, B. (2003). The acoustic and morpho-syntactic context of prosodic boundaries in dialogs. In Proceedings from Fonetik 2003 (pp. 117-120). Umeå: Dept. Philosophy and Linguistics, Umeå University. House, D. (2003). Hesitation and interrogative Swedish intonation. In Proceedings from Fonetik 2003 (pp. 185-189). Umeå: Dept. Philosophy and Linguistics, Umeå University. Strangert, E. (2003). Tonal and temporal manifestations of successively higher emphasis. In Proceedings from Fonetik 2003 (pp. 121-124). Umeå: Dept. Philosophy and Linguistics, Umeå University. Fonetik 2002, Stockholm Carlson, R., Granström, B., Heldner, M., House, D., Megyesi, B., Strangert, E., & Swerts, M. (2002). Boundaries and groupings - the structuring of speech in different communicative situations: a description of the GROG project. THM-QPSR, 44, 65-68. PhD Thesis Megyesi, B. (2003). Data-driven syntactic analysis. Stockholm: Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH. Master's thesis Ericsson, C. (2003). Predicting prosodic boundaries for speech synthesis. Unpublished Master thesis, KTH, Stockholm. Hafvenstein, F. (2003). Automatic labeling of prosody in Swedish using duration features. Unpublished Master thesis, Uppsala University, Uppsala. See also: http://stp.ling.uu.se/~matsd/thesis/.