Štefan Beňuš
Biographic Data
| ID | 212665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Štefan Beňuš |
| GIVEN NAMES | Štefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Beňuš |
| SIGNATURE | BEŇUŠ Š |
| AFFILIATIONS | Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8266-393X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Speech Fluency Production and Perception in L1 (Slovak) and L2 (English) Read Speech
Research on fluency in native (L1) and non-native (L2) speech production and perception helps us understand how individual L1 speaking style might affect perceived L2 fluency and how this relationship might be reflected in L1 versus L2 oral assessment. While the relationship between production and perception of fluency in spontaneous speech has been studied, the information provided by reading has been overlooked. We argue that reading provides a…
Towards the Use of Social Robot Furhat and Generative AI in Testing Cognitive Abilities
Spoken communication between social robotic devices, powered by generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, and the senior population offers great potential for researching social interaction and robot identity perceptions as well as exploring the potential opportunities and challenges when implementing this human-machine interactions in real life situations and health care. In this paper we explore people’s perceptions of the social robot Furhat when a…
Central and Eastern Europe
The languages of Central and Eastern Europe addressed in this chapter form a typologically divergent collection that includes Slavic (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, pluricentric Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian), Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian), Finno-Ugric (Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian), and Romance (Romanian). Their prosodic features and structures have been explored to various depths, …
Prosody in Discourse and Speaker State
This chapter examines prosodic variation in discourse and in speaker state. The discussion of discourse prosody includes an examination of both prosodic entrainment and turn-taking behaviours. Prosodic entrainment results from the tendency of speakers to become more like each other as they speak in a variety of behaviours including pitch, speaking rate, and intensity, as well as higher-level prosodic elements such as pitch accent and phrasal tone…
Slovak ‘ no ’ and its pragmatic meanings and functions in relation to prosody
This paper examines the contributions of lexical context and prosody on the perception of the Slovak particle ‘no’ , [nɔ] in IPA. The functional meanings of this discourse marker are similar to those of ‘okay’ in English. Based on a literature review, we expected that the presence of the prosodic cues is not sufficient for decoding the functional meanings. We also explored how biological sex and age affected the perception of ‘no’. We found that …
Emergence of prosodic boundary: Continuous effects of temporal affordance on inter-gestural timing
Phonetic variation in Slovak yer and non-yer vowels
Affirmative Cue Words in Task-Oriented Dialogue
We present a series of studies of affirmative cue words—a family of cue words such as “okay” or “alright” that speakers use frequently in conversation. These words pose a challenge for spoken dialogue systems because of their ambiguity: They may be used for agreeing with what the interlocutor has said, indicating continued attention, or for cueing the start of a new topic, among other meanings. We describe differences in the acoustic/prosodic rea…
Pragmatic aspects of temporal accommodation in turn-taking
Building interfaces between the humanities and cognitive sciences: The case of human speech
I argue that creating interfaces between the humanities and cognitive sciences would be intellectually stimulating for both groups. More specifically for the humanities: they might gain challenging and rewarding avenues of inquiry, attract more funding, and advance their position in the 21st-century universities and among the general public, if they engage in interface projects with cognitive science and other disciplines that seek to improve our…
Variation and opacity in Singapore English consonant clusters
Singapore English consonant clusters undergo phonological processes that exhibit variation and opacity. Quantitative evidence shows that these patterns are genuine and systematic. Two main conclusions emerge. First, a small set of phonological constraints yields a typological structure (T-order) that captures the quantitative patterns, independently of specific assumptions about how the grammar represents variation. Second, the evidence is consis…
Articulatory characteristics of Hungarian 'transparent' vowels
Phonetics and Phonology of Transparent Vowels in Hungarian
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns: Synchronic and Diachronic Explanations (2003)
Articulatory characteristics of Hungarian 'transparent' vowels
Pragmatic aspects of temporal accommodation in turn-taking
Phonetic variation in Slovak yer and non-yer vowels
Affirmative Cue Words in Task-Oriented Dialogue
We present a series of studies of affirmative cue words—a family of cue words such as “okay” or “alright” that speakers use frequently in conversation. These words pose a challenge for spoken dialogue systems because of their ambiguity: They may be used for agreeing with what the interlocutor has said, indicating continued attention, or for cueing the start of a new topic, among other meanings. We describe differences in the acoustic/prosodic rea…
Emergence of prosodic boundary: Continuous effects of temporal affordance on inter-gestural timing
Phonetics and Phonology of Transparent Vowels in Hungarian
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns: Synchronic and Diachronic Explanations (2003)
Articulatory characteristics of Hungarian 'transparent' vowels
Variation and opacity in Singapore English consonant clusters
Singapore English consonant clusters undergo phonological processes that exhibit variation and opacity. Quantitative evidence shows that these patterns are genuine and systematic. Two main conclusions emerge. First, a small set of phonological constraints yields a typological structure (T-order) that captures the quantitative patterns, independently of specific assumptions about how the grammar represents variation. Second, the evidence is consis…
Building interfaces between the humanities and cognitive sciences: The case of human speech
I argue that creating interfaces between the humanities and cognitive sciences would be intellectually stimulating for both groups. More specifically for the humanities: they might gain challenging and rewarding avenues of inquiry, attract more funding, and advance their position in the 21st-century universities and among the general public, if they engage in interface projects with cognitive science and other disciplines that seek to improve our…
Affirmative Cue Words in Task-Oriented Dialogue
We present a series of studies of affirmative cue words—a family of cue words such as “okay” or “alright” that speakers use frequently in conversation. These words pose a challenge for spoken dialogue systems because of their ambiguity: They may be used for agreeing with what the interlocutor has said, indicating continued attention, or for cueing the start of a new topic, among other meanings. We describe differences in the acoustic/prosodic rea…
Pragmatic aspects of temporal accommodation in turn-taking
Phonetic variation in Slovak yer and non-yer vowels
Emergence of prosodic boundary: Continuous effects of temporal affordance on inter-gestural timing
Central and Eastern Europe
The languages of Central and Eastern Europe addressed in this chapter form a typologically divergent collection that includes Slavic (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, pluricentric Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian), Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian), Finno-Ugric (Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian), and Romance (Romanian). Their prosodic features and structures have been explored to various depths, …
Prosody in Discourse and Speaker State
This chapter examines prosodic variation in discourse and in speaker state. The discussion of discourse prosody includes an examination of both prosodic entrainment and turn-taking behaviours. Prosodic entrainment results from the tendency of speakers to become more like each other as they speak in a variety of behaviours including pitch, speaking rate, and intensity, as well as higher-level prosodic elements such as pitch accent and phrasal tone…
Slovak ‘ no ’ and its pragmatic meanings and functions in relation to prosody
This paper examines the contributions of lexical context and prosody on the perception of the Slovak particle ‘no’ , [nɔ] in IPA. The functional meanings of this discourse marker are similar to those of ‘okay’ in English. Based on a literature review, we expected that the presence of the prosodic cues is not sufficient for decoding the functional meanings. We also explored how biological sex and age affected the perception of ‘no’. We found that …
Speech Fluency Production and Perception in L1 (Slovak) and L2 (English) Read Speech
Research on fluency in native (L1) and non-native (L2) speech production and perception helps us understand how individual L1 speaking style might affect perceived L2 fluency and how this relationship might be reflected in L1 versus L2 oral assessment. While the relationship between production and perception of fluency in spontaneous speech has been studied, the information provided by reading has been overlooked. We argue that reading provides a…
Towards the Use of Social Robot Furhat and Generative AI in Testing Cognitive Abilities
Spoken communication between social robotic devices, powered by generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, and the senior population offers great potential for researching social interaction and robot identity perceptions as well as exploring the potential opportunities and challenges when implementing this human-machine interactions in real life situations and health care. In this paper we explore people’s perceptions of the social robot Furhat when a…
Computer Science (10 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Phonology (4 works) · Slovak (4 works) · Speech recognition (4 works)