Publications  (arranged by date)


In preparation

Beckman, M.E. and J.J. Venditti. Tone and intonation. In W. Hardcastle (ed.) Handbook of Phonetic Sciences. Blackwell Publishers.

Venditti, Jennifer J., John Trueswell and Matthew Stone. On-line interpretation of accented pronouns in context.

Venditti, Jennifer J., Kazuaki Maeda and Jan P. H. van Santen. Form and function of Japanese boundary pitch movements. [PDF] (This is a *draft* of the paper, previously submitted to a volume edited by Nick Campbell which unfortunately never made it to press. The paper is an extension of Venditti, et al. (1998).)
 

2007

Venditti, Jennifer J., Kikuo Maekawa and Mary E. Beckman. (in press) Prominence marking in the Japanese intonation system. In S. Miyagawa and M. Saito (eds.) Handbook of Japanese Linguistics. Oxford University Press. [PDF]
 

2006

Venditti, Jennifer J. (2006) Prosody in sentence processing. In R. Mazuka, M. Nakayama and Y. Shirai (eds.) The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, Volume II: Japanese. Cambridge University Press. [DOC]

Venditti, Jennifer J., Julia Hirschberg, and Jackson Liscombe. (2006) Intonational cues to student questions in tutoring dialogs. In Proceedings of Interspeech (ICSLP). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [PDF]

Liscombe, J., Venditti, J., & Hirschberg, J. (2006). Detecting Question-Bearing Turns in Spoken Tutorial Dialogues. In Proceedings of Interspeech (ICSLP). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Awarded Best Student Paper -- Congrats Jackson!!). [PDF]
 

2005

Venditti, Jennifer J. (2005) The J_ToBI model of Japanese intonation. In S.-A. Jun (ed.) Prosodic Typology: The Phonology and Intonation of Phrasing, pp. 172-200. Oxford University Press. [PDF]

Liscombe, Jackson, Julia Hirschberg, and Jennifer J. Venditti. (2005) Detecting certainness in spoken tutorial dialogues. In Proceedings of Interspeech (Eurospeech). Lisbon, Portugal. [PDF]
 

2004

DeCarlo, Douglas, Matthew Stone, Corey Revilla and Jennifer J. Venditti. (2004) Specifying and animating facial signals for discourse in embodied conversational agents. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds 15(1): 27-38. [PDF]
 

2003

Venditti, Jennifer J.\ and Julia Hirschberg. (2003) Intonation and discourse processing. Invited paper in Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Barcelona, Spain. [PDF]

Liscombe, Jackson, Jennifer J. Venditti and Julia Hirschberg. (2003) Classifying subject ratings of emotional speech using acoustic features. In Proceedings of Eurospeech. Geneva, Switzerland. [PDF]

Hirschberg, Julia, Jackson Liscombe and Jennifer J. Venditti. (2003) Experiments in emotional speech. Invited paper in Proceedings of the ISCA and IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition. Tokyo, Japan. [PDF]
 

2002

Maekawa, Kikuo, Hideaki Kikuchi, Yosuke Igarashi, and Jennifer J. Venditti. (2002) X-JToBI: An extended J-ToBI for spontaneous speech. In Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP). Denver, Colorado. [PDF]

Venditti, Jennifer J., Matthew Stone, Preetham Nanda and Paul Tepper. (2002) Discourse constraints on the interpretation of nuclear-accented pronouns. In Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Speech Prosody. Aix-en-Provence, France. [PDF]  (The figures look much nicer in color!)

DeCarlo, Douglas, Corey Revilla, Matthew Stone and Jennifer J. Venditti. (2002) Making discourse visible: Coding and animating conversational facial displays. In Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Computer Animation, pp. 11-16. Geneva, Switzerland. [PDF]
 

2001

Venditti, Jennifer J., Matthew Stone, Preetham Nanda and Paul Tepper. (2001) Toward an account of accented pronoun interpretation in discourse context: Evidence from eye-tracking. Technical Report, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. [PDF]  (The figures look much nicer in color!)
 

2000

Venditti, Jennifer J. (2000) Discourse Structure and Attentional Salience Effects on Japanese Intonation. Ph.D. thesis, Ohio State University. [PDF] [Or, you can order a hardcopy or download .ps or .pdf file from OSU Dissertations in Linguistics (OSDL).]

Venditti, Jennifer J. and Jan P. H. van Santen. (2000) Japanese intonation synthesis using superposition and linear alignment models. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP). Beijing, China. [PDF]

Venditti, Jennifer J. (2000) Modeling phrasal F0 peak height for Japanese TTS. Technical Report, Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories.

Beckman, M. E. and Jennifer J. Venditti. (2000) Tagging prosody and discourse structure in elicited spontaneous speech. In Proceedings of the Science and Technology Agency Priority Program Symposium on Spontaneous Speech: Corpus and Processing Technology, pp. 87-98. Tokyo, Japan. [PDF]
 

1998

Venditti, Jennifer J. and Jan P. H. van Santen. (1998a) Modeling segmental durations for Japanese text-to-speech synthesis. In Proceedings of the 3rd ESCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, pp. 31-36. Jenolan Caves, Australia. [PDF] (This is a reformatted draft submitted to a volume edited by Nick Campbell, which unfortunately never made it to press.)

Venditti, Jennifer J. and Jan P. H. van Santen. (1998b) Modeling vowel duration for Japanese text-to-speech synthesis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP). Sydney, Australia. [PDF]

Venditti, Jennifer J., Kazuaki Maeda and Jan P. H. van Santen. (1998) Modeling Japanese boundary pitch movements for speech synthesis. In Proceedings of the 3rd ESCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, pp. 317-322. Jenolan Caves, Australia. [PDF] (This is an expanded draft submitted to a volume edited by Nick Campbell, which unfortunately never made it to press.)

Maeda, Kazuaki and Jennifer J. Venditti. (1998) Phonetic investigation of boundary pitch movements in Japanese. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP). Sydney, Australia. [PDF]

van Santen, Jan P. H., Bernd Moebius, Jennifer J. Venditti, and Chilin Shih. (1998) Description of the Bell Labs Intonation System. In Proceedings of the 3rd ESCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, pp. 293-298. Jenolan Caves, Australia.
 

1997

Venditti, Jennifer J. (1997) Japanese ToBI Labelling Guidelines.  In K. Ainsworth-Darnell and M. D'Imperio (eds.) Papers from the Linguistics Laboratory. Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 50: 127-162. [PDF] [First distributed in 1995 at the Japanese ToBI webpage].
 

1996

Venditti, Jennifer J., Sun-Ah Jun and Mary E. Beckman. (1996) Prosodic cues to syntactic and other linguistic structures in Japanese, Korean and English. In J. Morgan and K. Demuth (eds.) Signal to Syntax: Bootstrapping from Speech to Grammar in Early Acquisition, pp. 287-311. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Venditti, Jennifer J. and Marc Swerts. (1996) Intonational cues to discourse structure in Japanese. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), vol. 2: 725-728. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [PDF]
 

1995

Campbell, Nick and Jennifer J. Venditti. (1995) J-ToBI: An intonation labelling system for Japanese. In Proceedings of the Autumn meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ), vol. 1: 317-318. Utsunomiya, Japan.
 

1994

Venditti, Jennifer J. and Hiroko Yamashita.  (1994) Prosodic information and processing of temporarily ambiguous constructions in Japanese. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), vol. 3: 1147-1150. Yokohama, Japan.

Venditti, Jennifer J. and Hiroko Yamashita. (1994) Prosodic information and processing of complex NPs in Japanese. In H. Ura and M. Koizumi (eds.) In Proceedings of the First Conference on Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 24: 375-391. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Venditti, Jennifer J. (1994)  The influence of syntax on prosodic structure in Japanese. In J.J. Venditti (ed.) Papers from the Linguistics Laboratory. Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 44: 191-223.