Speech Prosody Studies Group




About us
The Speech Prosody Studies Group (SPSG) is a lab formed by full researchers and students from the State University of Campinas. All work produced by its members refers  to speech prosody, within an experimental approach couched in dynamical systems theory. Our publications embrace the following disciplines: Experimental Phonetics (including rhythm and intonation), and Speech pathology. The group was formed in 2002 aiming at promoting experimental prosody research, by means of activities such as teaching, working papers' presentations, participation in speech sciences' conferences.

Permanent collaborations
The group has narrow collaborations with the LIACC/PUC-SP, and the Federal Universities of Espírito Santo (UFES) and Minas Gerais (Semiofon/UFMG) under the umbrella of the CNPq Research Group Análise e modelamento dinâmicos da prosódia da fala. The heads of this extended group are Plínio A. Barbosa (Unicamp) and Sandra Madureira (LIACC/PUC-SP), its full members are Pablo Arantes (Unicamp), Alexsandro Meireles (UFES), and Ana Cristina F. Matte (UFMG), and the student members (Adisor) are Ana Carolina Constantini (P. Barbosa),  João Paulo Tozetti da Silva (A. Meireles), André Nogueira Xavier (P. Barbosa),  Luana Caroline Pereira Campos (P. Barbosa), Aveliny Mantovan Lima-Gregio (P. Barbosa),  Luciana Lucente (P. Barbosa), Fernando Luiz Abranches Pires (P. Barbosa),  Sandra Merlo (P. Barbosa), Irma Iunes Miranda (A. Meireles),  Shirlei Conceição Barth Schaeffer (A. Meireles), Jair de Almeida Silva (A. Meireles), Thalita Siqueira do Valle Barbosa (P. Barbosa), and Wellington da Silva (P. Barbosa).

This extended group works in eight main areas (research themes):
  1. Speech rhythm analysis and modelling (SPSG, UFES)
  2. Intonation analysis and modelling (SPSG, LIACC)
  3. Speech pathology analysis (LIACC, SPSG)
  4. L2 acquisition analysis (LIACC)
  5. Speech production and perception analysis and modelling (LIACC, SPSG)
  6. Speech technology (UFMG)
  7. Gesture and speech, including LIBRAS (SPSG)
  8. Acoustic basis of CA (SPSG)

SPSG visiting scholars

Hansjörg Mixdorff (TU Berlin, Germany). November 2006, and April/May 2010
Anders Eriksson (Univ. Gothenburg, Sweden). March 2010.
John Esling (Univ. Victoria, Canada). August 2009.
Marc Swerts (Tilburg Univ., The Netherlands) June 2007.

Members of the Speech Prosody Studies Group
Full researchers
Plínio A. BARBOSA - Head
Senior Lecturer/University of Campinas
Personal Homepage
E-mail: pabarbosa.unicampbr@gmail.com
Research themes: 1, 2, 3, 5

Pablo ARANTES - Co-head
 University of Campinas, Pos-Doc
Research theme: 1, 5
E-mail: pabloarantes@gmail.com
Students

Aveliny Mantovan LIMA-GREGIO
PhD Student/University of Campinas
Research theme: 1, 3
E-mail: avelinylima@gmail.com

Luciana LUCENTE
PhD Student/University of Campinas
Research theme: 2
E-mail: luciana_lucente@yahoo.com.br

Sandra MERLO
PhD Student/University of Campinas
Research theme: 1, 3
E-mail: sgmerlo@yahoo.com.br

André Nogueira XAVIER
PhD Student/University of Campinas
Research theme: 7
E-mail: andrexav@usp.br
Luana Caroline Pereira CAMPOS
Masters's thesis Student/University of Campinas
Research theme: 1,2
E-mail: luanacarolinec@gmail.com
Fernando Luiz ABRANCHES Pires
Masters's thesis Student/University of Campinas
Research theme: 7
E-mail: abranches@hotmail.com

Ana Carolina CONSTANTINI
Masters's thesis Student/University of Campinas
Research theme: 1
E-mail: carolconstantini@gmail.com

Thalita Siqueira do Valle BARBOSA
Undergraduate Student/University of Campinas
Research theme: 8
E-mail: thalitasvb@gmail.com

Wellington da SILVA
Undergraduate Student/University of Campinas
Research theme: 1
E-mail: dablio_w@yahoo.com.br
Related research activities:

Yahoo group (to exchange info on speech prosody research in Brazil and in Portugal):     http://br.groups.yahoo.com/group/profala/

The group co-organised the Speech Prosody 2008 Conference, in Campinas, Brazil, from May 6th to 9th, and
organised
II Colóquio Brasileiro de Prosódia da Fala in June 2009.
Laryngeals and pharyngeals in Brazil Workshop in August 2009.

Theses


Sandra Merlo. Hesitações na fala semi-espontânea: análise por séries temporais. 2006. Dissertação (Mestrado em Lingüística) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior. Orientador: Plinio Almeida Barbosa.

Luís Augusto de Sá Pessoa. Modelos da Língua para o Português do Brasil aplicados ao Reconhecimento de Fala Contínua: Modelos Lineares e Modelos Hierárquicos (Parsing). 1999. Dissertação (Mestrado em Engenharia Elétrica) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior. Co-Orientador: Plinio Almeida Barbosa.

Jussara Melo Vieira. Para um estudo da estruturação rítmica na fala disártrica. 2003. Tese (Doutorado em Lingüística) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo. Orientador: Plinio Almeida Barbosa.

Alexsandro Rodrigues Meireles. Reestruturações rítmicas da fala no português brasileiro. 2003. Tese (Doutorado em Lingüística) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo. Orientador: Plinio Almeida Barbosa.