Selected publications (see also full list)

Intonation, tone, accent (also see: Time selection for stress, rhythm)

Dafydd Gibbon, 2020-12-10

1976

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1976). Performatory categories in contrastive intonation analysis. In: D. Chiţoran, ed. (1976). Proc. Second International Conference of Contrastive Linguistic Projects. Bucharest: Bucharest U.P. 145-156.

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd (1976). Perspectives of Intonation Analysis. Bern, Lang. (Diss. U Göttingen.) [PDF]

1980

  1. Jassem, Wiktor and Dafydd Gibbon (1980). Re-defining English stress. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 10, 1980:2-16. [PDF]

1981

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1981). A new look at intonation syntax and semantics. In: Alan James and Paul Westney, eds. (1981), New Linguistic Impulses in Foreign Language Teaching. Tübingen: Narr, 71-98.

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd (1981). Metalocutions, structural types and functional variation in English and German. Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics 12, 1980:17-39. [PDF]

1983

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1983). Intonation in context. An essay on metalocutionary deixis. In: Gisa Rauh, ed., Essays on Deixis. Tübingen: Narr. 1983:195-218.

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd and Margret Selting (1983). Intonation und die Strukturierung eines Diskurses. In: Special issue: Wolfgang Klein, ed., Intonation. Zeitschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik (LiLi) 13 (49). Göttingen: Vandenhoek and Ruprecht, 53-73. [PDF]

1984

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1984). Intonation as an adaptive process. In: Dafydd Gibbon, Helmut Richter, eds. (1984). Intonation, Accent and Rhythm. Studies in Discourse Phonology. Berlin: de Gruyter, 165-192.

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd, Helmut Richter (1984). Phonology and Discourse: a Variety of Approaches. In: Dafydd Gibbon and Helmut Richter, eds. (1984). Intonation, Accent and Rhythm. Studies in Discourse Phonology. Berlin, de Gruyter, 1-9.

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd, Helmut Richter, eds. (1984). Intonation, Accent and Rhythm. Studies in Discourse Phonology. Berlin, de Gruyter.

1987

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1987). Finite state processing of tone systems. Proc. European Association for Computational Linguistics, Copenhagen, 291-297. [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd (1987). The role of discourse in intonation theory. In: Wolfgang Dressler, ed. (1984), Phonologica 1984. Cambridge, C.U.P. and Poznan, Adam-Mickiewicz-University Press. 49-58.

1988

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1988). Intonation and discourse. In: Janos Petöfi, ed. (1988), Text and Discourse Constitution. Berlin: de Gruyter. 3-25.

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd and Gunter Braun (1988). The PSI/PHI architecture for prosodic parsing. Proc. COLING 1988, 202-204. [PDF]

1990

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1990). Prosodic Association by Template Inheritance. In: Gazdar, G. and Daelemans, W., eds. (1990), Proc. International Workshop on Inheritance in Natural Language Processing. Tilburg.

1991

  1. Brindöpke, Christel, Dafydd Gibbon, Hagen Langer and Martina Pampel (1991). Prosodische Kohäsion. In: Gert Rickheit, ed. (1991). Kohärenzprozesse. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 137-181.

  2. Reinhard, Sabine, Dafydd Gibbon (1991). Prosodic Inheritance and Morphological Generalisations. Proc. 5th European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 131-136. [PDF]

1992

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1992). Prosody, time types and linguistic design factors in spoken language system architectures. In: G. Görz, ed. (1992). Proc. KONVENS '92. Berlin, Springer, 90-99. [PDF]

1995

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1995). Empirical and semiotic foundations of prosodic analysis. In: Uta Quasthoff, ed. (1995), Aspects of Oral Communication, Research in Texttheory. Berlin: de Gruyter.

1996

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd, Komdedzi Kofi Folikpo, Shu-Chuan Tseng (1996). Prosodic inheritance and phonetic interpretation: lexical tones in Ewegbe. Technical Report, Bieiefeld.

1997

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd and Claudia Sassen (1997). Prosody-particle pairs as discourse control signs. EUROSPEECH 97, 223-226. [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd and Julie Carson-Berndsen (1997). Gesprochene Sprache. In: Hans Strohner, ed. (1997), Linguistik: Die Bielefelder Sicht. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 93-96.

1998

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1998). German intonation. In: Daniel Hirst and Albert di Cristo, eds., Intonation Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 78-95. [PDF]

1999

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd and Julie Carson-Berndsen (1999). Visualising lexical prosodic representations for speech applications. In: Paul Mc Kevitt, Seán Ó Nualláin and Conn Mulvihill, eds. Language, Vision and Music: Selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Galway, 1999. [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd and Shu-Chuan Tseng (1999). Toward a formal characterisation of disfluency. Proc. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences Satellite Workshop on Disfluency, Berkeley CA, 30 July 1999. [PDF]

2001

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2001). Finite state prosodic analysis of African corpus resources. Proc. EUROSPEECH 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, I: 83-86. [PDF]

  2. Gut, Ulrike and Dafydd Gibbon (2001). Is prosody linear? In: Stanisław Puppel and Grażyna Demenko, eds. (2001). Prosody 2000. Poznań: Adam Mickiewicz University Press, 83-88.

2002

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2002). Computational phonology and the typology of West African tone systems. In: Ulrike Gut and Dafydd Gibbon, eds. (2002), Typology of African Prosodic Systems (TAPS). Bielefeld: Bielefeld Occasional Papers in Typology 1. [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd (2002). Prosodic information in an integrated lexicon. Proc. 1st International Conference on Speech Prosody 2002. Aix-en-Provence, 335-338. [PDF]

  3. Gut, Ulrike and Dafydd Gibbon, eds. (2002). Typology of African Prosodic Systems. Bielefeld: Bielefeld Occasional Papers in Typology 1. [SITE]

  4. Gibbon, Dafydd, Ulrike Gut, Sandrine Adouakou and Eno-Abasi Urua. (2002). Rhythm in West African tone languges: a study of Ibibio, Anyi and Ega. In: Ulrike Gut and Dafydd Gibbon, eds. (2002). Typology of African Prosodic Systems, Bielefeld: Bielefeld Occasional Papers in Typology 1, 159-165. [PDF]

2003

  1. Urua, Eno-Abasi, Dafydd Gibbon and Ulrike Gut (2003). A computational model of low tones in Ibibio. Proc. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, 2003, I: 623-626. [PDF]

  2. Raithel, Vivian, Dafydd Gibbon and Martina Hielscher, (2003). Aspekte emotionaler vs. linguistischer Prosodierezeption. Tagungsband des 73. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprach- und Stimmheilkunde e.V. (DGSS), 10.

2004

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2004). Tone and timing: two problems and two methods for prosodic typology. Proc. International Conference on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL) 28-30 March 2004, Beijing. [PDF]

2005

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2005). Prerequisites for a Multimodal Semantics of Gesture and Prosody. In: Harry Bunt, ed. (2005). Proc. International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS) 6. [PDF]

2006

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2006). Time Types and Time Trees: Prosodic Mining and Alignment of Temporally Annotated Data. In: Sudhoff, Stefan, Denisa Lenertova, Roland Meyer, Sandra Pappert, Petra Augurzky, Ina Mleinek, Nicole Richter and Johannes Schließer, eds. (2006). Methods in Empirical Prosody Research. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 281-209. [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd and Eno-Abasi Urua (2006). Morphotonology for TTS in Niger-Congo languages. Proc. 3rd International Conference on Speech Prosody. Dresden: TUD Press. [PDF]

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd, Eno-Abasi Urua and Moses Ekpenyong (2006). Problems and solutions in African tone language Text-To-Speech. In: Justus Roux, ed. Proc. Multiling 2006 Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa. [PDF]

2007

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2007). Fast food for thought: On truth, negotiation and prosody. Proc. Max-Planck-Institute Workshop Wikifying Research, Leipzig, June 26-27, 2007. [PDF]

  2. Stocksmeier, Thorsten, Stefan Kopp and Dafydd Gibbon (2007). Synthesis of prosodic attitudinal variants in German backchannel ‘ja’. Proc. INTERSPEECH/EUROSPEECH 2007, Antwerp. [PDF]

2008

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd and Jolanta Bachan (2008). An automatic close copy speech synthesis tool for large-scale speech corpus evaluation. In: Khalid Choukri, ed. (2008), Proc. LREC 2008, 28-29-30 May 2008 Marrakech, Morocco. Paris: ELDA. [PDF]

2009

  1. Ahoua, Firmin, Kouamé Adjépole and Dafydd Gibbon (2009). Prosodic domains and tones in speech and songs in Anyi Sanvi. World Congress of African Linguistics. [Abstract] [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd (2009). Gesture theory is linguistics: modelling multimodality as prosody. Proc. PACLIC 23 Conference, Hong Kong. [PDF]

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd (2009). Prosodic Rank Theory: on the formalisation of prosodic events. In: Piotra Łobacz, Piotr Nowak and Władysław Zabrocki, eds. (2009). Language, Science and Culture. Essays in Honour of Professor Jerzy Bańczerowski on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday. Poznań: Adam Mickiewicz University Press. [PDF]

  4. Gibbon, Dafydd, Firmin Ahoua, Blé François Kipré and Sascha Griffiths (2009). Discrete level narrative, terraced music: insights from underdocumented Ivorian languages. Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory Conference (LDLTC). [PDF]

  5. Gibbon, Dafydd, François Blé Kipré (2009). Analysis and synthesis of lexical tone in discourse Bete narrative prosody. Abstract, World Congress of African Linguistics. [PDF]

  6. Gibbon, Dafydd, Pramod Pandey, Mary Kim Haokip and Jolanta Bachan (2009). Prosodic issues in synthesising Thadou, a Tibeto-Burman tone language. INTERSPEECH 2009, Brighton, UK. [PDF]

2010

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2010). Prosodic Inference with the ZDATR default inference engine. Tribute Vol. for Prof. Stefan Grocholewski. Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 12/13 (2009/2010). [PDF]

2011

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2011). Computing tone for theoretical and practical reasons. Berkeley Tone Workshop, February 2011. Slides. [PDF slides]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd (2011). Modelling gesture as speech: A linguistic approach. Papers and Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 47:3, 470-508. [PDF]

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd, Firmin Ahoua and Adjépole Kouamé (2011). Modelling speech-song relations: an exploratory study of pitch contours, tones and prosodic domains in Anyi. Proc. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2011, Hong Kong. [PDF]

  4. Rossini, Nicla and Dafydd Gibbon (2011). Why gesture without speech but not talk without gesture? Proc. GESPIN 2011, Bielefeld. [PDF]

2012

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2012). Formal models of oscillation in rhythm, melody and harmony. In: Dafydd Gibbon, Daniel Hirst and Nick Campbell, eds. (2012), Rhythm, Melody and Harmony in Speech. Studies in Honour of Wiktor Jassem. Speech and Language Technology, 14/15, 35-44. [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd, Daniel Hirst and Nick Campbell, eds. (2012). Rhythm, Melody and Harmony in Speech. Studies in Honour of Wiktor Jassem. Speech and Language Technology 14/15.

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd, Ugonna Duruibe and Jolanta Bachan (2012). ‘Market Speak’ in Igbo: A speech synthesis training project. In: Hugues Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza and Sonja E. Bosch, eds., Language Science and Language Technology in Africa. A Festschrift for Justus C. Roux. Stellenbosch: Sun Press, 339-359. [PDF]

2015

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2015). Talks and cooperations with Zakari Tchagbale. [Ms] [PDF]

2017

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2017). Rhythms and Melodies of Speech. Ms. https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.02565 [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd and Sascha Griffiths (2017). Multilinear Grammar: Ranks and Interpretations. Open Linguistics 3(1), 265-307. [PDF]

2018

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2018). The future of prosody: it’s about time. Keynote talk. 9th International conference on Speech Prosody, 1-9. [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd (2018). Lexicography: Projects and Principles. [ILEX andULEX] JNU seminar, Guangzhou. Slides. [PDF]

2019

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2019). CRAFT: A multifunction online platform for speech prosody visualisation. Proc. 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2956-2960. [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd and Peng Li (2019). Quantifying and correlating rhythm formants in speech. Proc. LCSS, Taipei, Academia Sinica. [PDF]

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd and Xuewei Lin (2020). Rhythm Zone Theory: Speech Rhythms are Physical after all. In: Magdalena Wrembel, Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak and Piotr Gąsiorowski, eds. Approaches to the Study of Sound Structure and Speech. Interdisciplinary Work in Honour of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk. London: Routledge. [Draft] [PDF]

2020

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2020). Computational induction of prosodic structure. Studies in Prosodic Grammar 6 (2). [Prepublication draft] [PDF]

Submitted 2020

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (n.d.). Rhythms of rhythm. Hierarchical induction of low frequency speech patterns.