Jan Volín
Biographic Data
| ID | 1719477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Volín |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Volín |
| SIGNATURE | VOLÍN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1525-5519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring the phrase-internal changes in articulation rate
The article introduces a method of normalising the inherent durational properties of phones (the LARometer), providing a relative measure of local articulation rate (LAR). It allows for the quantification of the communicatively relevant variations in articulation rate and their visualisation in temporal contours. The normalisation is based on an extensive manually annotated corpus containing over four hours of continuous speech. The usage of the …
Prosodic prominence of modal verbs in narratives
The study deals with accentuation (presence or absence of realized lexical stress) of modal verbs in continuous spoken texts. The material was taken from audiobooks where Czech professional actors (8 male + 8 female) read out various narratives produced by renowned authors. A corpus of over 17,000 words was used. The recordings were annotated with special attention to presence or absence of materialized stress (i.e., accent). The chief purpose of…
Prosodic Phrase in Spoken Czech
Variation in speech tempo and its relationship to prosodic boundary occurrence in two speech genres
The present study focuses on two problems connected with speech tempo. First, earlier research has been prevalently concerned with central tendencies while variation was mostly perceived as an auxiliary result. We believe, however, that information about data dispersion is essential for proper modelling and experiment design in the field of temporal structure of speech. Therefore, the present study provides reference values for some of the tempo …
Description of F0 contours with Legendre polynomials
Phonetic research has developed both impressionistic and more objective means of describing the basic units of intonation. The quantification involved in the approaches based on acoustic measurements provides more detail and it is a necessary prerequisite for the comparability and replicability of the results of different studies. In addition to having these characteristics, a proper description of intonation should be comprehensible and meaningf…
Occurrence and Duration of Pauses in Relation to Speech Tempo and Structural Organization in Two Speech Genres
Pauses act as important acoustic cues to prosodic phrase boundaries. However, the distribution and phonetic characteristics of pauses have not yet been fully described either cross-linguistically or in different genres and speech styles within languages. The current study examines the pausal performance of 24 Czech speakers in two genres of read speech: news reading and poetry reciting. The pause rate and pause duration are related to genre diffe…
P-centres in natural disyllabic Czech words in a large-scale speech-metronome synchronization experiment
P-centres in natural disyllabic Czech words in a large-scale speech-metronome synchronization experiment
Variation in speech tempo and its relationship to prosodic boundary occurrence in two speech genres
The present study focuses on two problems connected with speech tempo. First, earlier research has been prevalently concerned with central tendencies while variation was mostly perceived as an auxiliary result. We believe, however, that information about data dispersion is essential for proper modelling and experiment design in the field of temporal structure of speech. Therefore, the present study provides reference values for some of the tempo …
Description of F0 contours with Legendre polynomials
Phonetic research has developed both impressionistic and more objective means of describing the basic units of intonation. The quantification involved in the approaches based on acoustic measurements provides more detail and it is a necessary prerequisite for the comparability and replicability of the results of different studies. In addition to having these characteristics, a proper description of intonation should be comprehensible and meaningf…
Occurrence and Duration of Pauses in Relation to Speech Tempo and Structural Organization in Two Speech Genres
Pauses act as important acoustic cues to prosodic phrase boundaries. However, the distribution and phonetic characteristics of pauses have not yet been fully described either cross-linguistically or in different genres and speech styles within languages. The current study examines the pausal performance of 24 Czech speakers in two genres of read speech: news reading and poetry reciting. The pause rate and pause duration are related to genre diffe…
Prosodic Phrase in Spoken Czech
Exploring the phrase-internal changes in articulation rate
The article introduces a method of normalising the inherent durational properties of phones (the LARometer), providing a relative measure of local articulation rate (LAR). It allows for the quantification of the communicatively relevant variations in articulation rate and their visualisation in temporal contours. The normalisation is based on an extensive manually annotated corpus containing over four hours of continuous speech. The usage of the …
Prosodic prominence of modal verbs in narratives
The study deals with accentuation (presence or absence of realized lexical stress) of modal verbs in continuous spoken texts. The material was taken from audiobooks where Czech professional actors (8 male + 8 female) read out various narratives produced by renowned authors. A corpus of over 17,000 words was used. The recordings were annotated with special attention to presence or absence of materialized stress (i.e., accent). The chief purpose of…
Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Czech (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication (2 works) · Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Natural language processing (2 works)