The study investigates how bilingual politicians structure the timing of their speeches in Luxembourgish and French, analyzing 400 sentences from ten speakers. Rhythm metrics were computed for consonants and vowels, revealing that consonant patterns are largely speaker-specific while vowel patterns are strongly influenced by language choice. French tokens exhibited longer, more variable vowels and vocalic intervals, whereas consonant timing differences were smaller, with no significant language-by-gender interactions.
By Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Nafiseh Taghva, Peter Gilles, Oliver Niebuhr
The study analyzes oral political language in U.S. presidential debates from 1960 to 2024, focusing on 19 candidates. It finds a clear trend toward simplification: sentence length and complex terms have decreased, while emotional tone has risen and logical, rational content has diminished. The research also explores whether specific presidents exhibit unique stylistic traits and whether language patterns correlate with electoral success.
By Jacques Savoy
This paper investigates whether prosodic features—pitch, energy, and timing—are preserved when speech is translated between languages. Using multilingual dubbing data for English‑German, English‑Spanish, and English‑French pairs, the authors conduct a fine‑grained cross‑lingual analysis to quantify similarities and differences in prosody. The study identifies inherent cross‑lingual correlations in prosodic structure and explores how linguistic and alignment factors influence these patterns.
By Haopeng Xie, Ismail Rasim Ulgen, Sofia Son, Berrak Sisman, Philipp Koehn
arXiv:2608.30828v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present three large-scale studies of spoken parliamentary speech across four Slavic languages (Croatian, Czech, Polish, Serbian), drawing on over 6,...
By Ivan Porupski, Nikola Ljube\v{s}i\'c
Filled pauses (FPs) are a universal feature of spontaneous speech, yet most studies rely on small, single-language corpora, limiting the generalisability of their findings. We analyse ~4,000 hours of parliamentary speech across four related Slavic languages (Croatian, Czech, Polish, Serbian).
arXiv:2604. 01562v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Voice cloning is often evaluated in terms of overall quality, but less is known about accent preservation and its perceptual consequences.
By Tianle Yang, Chengzhe Sun, Phil Rose, Siwei Lyu