Plínio A. Barbosa
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 Plínio A. Barbosa
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of the Departament of Linguistics
Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem/Unicamp
Rua Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, 571
13083-859 Campinas-SP, Brazil
Phone: +55 19 35211511 e FAX: +55 19 32891501
E-mail: pabarbosa.unicampbr@gmail.com

Responsible for:  Speech Prosody Studies Group
President of: Luso-Brazilian Speech Science Association

Research
Follow my work at Academia.edu

Publications
Agenda:
As a member of a Scientific/Review Committee in a congress
Ongoing conferences:
Interspeech 2013,
TRASP 2013


Past conferences:
Workshop on Prosodic prominence: perceptual and automatic      identification
I Iberian SL Tech 2009
Int. Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2003, 2007, 2011.
Interspeech 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012,
Speech Prosody Conf. 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012
Propor 2008 (Aveiro, Portugal), Propor 2010, Propor 2012.

As a member of a congress organising committee
Interspeech 2005 (Liaison)
Speech Prosody Conf.  2008, Campinas, Brazil (May 6-9)*, Technical & Program Chair
*Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2008 (ISBN = 978-0-61622-003-0)

As an editor
Journal of Speech Sciences
As a guest editor
Speech Communication Special Issue on Iberian Languages - 50(11/12), 2008

As a former editor (replaced by M. L. C. Lima on Jan. 18th, 2008)
Teaching
Education
Last collaborations
  • PoSTPort project at INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal (March 2009) 
  • Heron project at IEETA-Univ. de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (March-April 2007)
  • Cross-linguistic analysis and functional-dynamical modelling of intonation (with Hansjörg Mixdorff, and Sandra Madureira)
  • Emotion and odors (with the CAS, Univ. of Geneva, Didier Grandjean and Camille Ferdenzi)
Present collaborating projects
  • A typology for word stress and speech rhythm based on acoustic and perceptual considerations (with the Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden, Anders Eriksson - Swedish Research Council (Grant # 2007-2301).
As an ad hoc referree
Journal of Phonetics, Speech communication, IEEE Trans. ASLP, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., J. Int. Phon. Assoc.
As a member of an Editorial Board
International Journal of Speech Technology
Distúrbios da Comunicação
D.E.L.T.A.
Intercâmbio
Revista de Estudos da Linguagem/UFMG
ReVeL
Veredas, (UFJF)

As a former member of a Scientific Association Board
 As a member of a Scientific Association Board
ISCA Advisory Council (2009-2012)
SProSIG Permanent Advisory Council

As a member of a Scientific Association
ISCA, IPA, SproSIG, LBASS

Research interests and research relations

Speech science is the main scientific interest of our group, the Speech Prosody Studies Group. Under this broad research term, we work mostly with the analysis and modelling of speech prosody (rhythm and intonation), especially the analysis and modelling of duration under a dynamical perspective (coupled oscillators). By studying and automatically generating the utterances' rhythmic structure, our group tries to understand how the stress patterns are formed and structured, and how they vary in different dialects and subjects. Durational contours are considered as gestalten whose building blocks are V-to-V units (unit from a vowel onset to the next one. Cf the p-center litterature). These studies aim at illuminating (1) how rhythm organises speech production, (2) how rhythm guides speech perception, (3) how rhythm is specified in dynamical, abstract terms, (4) how rhythm guides the phonetic implementation, and (5) how a model of coupled oscillators can pace the act of uttering. The relationship with the linguistic rhythm is worked on by analysing and modelling the stress patterns underlying phonological processes such as stress clash, secondary stress, and rhythmic restructuring under speech rate increase.

Current projects (heading): Dynamical analysis and modelling of the prosody of spontaneous speech  (CNPq)

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Last update: 03/20/2013

Watercolours by Roseli D. Barbosa (e-mail: roselie123@hotmail.com)