@inproceedings{bhattacharya-etal-2025-context,
    title = "Does Context Matter? A Prosodic Comparison of {E}nglish and {S}panish in Monolingual and Multilingual Discourse Settings",
    author = "Bhattacharya, Debasmita  and
      Sasu, David  and
      Marchini, Michela  and
      Schluter, Natalie  and
      Hirschberg, Julia",
    editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos  and
      Chakraborty, Tanmoy  and
      Rose, Carolyn  and
      Peng, Violet",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.emnlp-main.1189/",
    pages = "23319--23333",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6",
    abstract = "Different languages are known to have typical and distinctive prosodic profiles. However, the majority of work on prosody across languages has been restricted to monolingual discourse contexts. We build on prior studies by asking: how does the nature of the discourse context influence variations in the prosody of monolingual speech? To answer this question, we compare the prosody of spontaneous, conversational monolingual English and Spanish both in monolingual \textit{and} in multilingual speech settings. For both languages, we find that monolingual speech produced in a \textit{monolingual} context is prosodically different from that produced in a \textit{multilingual} context, with more marked differences having increased proximity to multilingual discourse. Our work is the first to incorporate multilingual discourse contexts into the study of native-level monolingual prosody, and has potential downstream applications for the recognition and synthesis of multilingual speech."
}