Mandarin Chinese Tonal Issues from the Perspective of Speech Synthesis

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  • Fangxin Chen
  • Janfen Cao
چکیده

This paper presents two tonal issues in spoken Mandarin Chinese from the perspective of speech synthesis. One is a unique Chinese phonetic category Qingsheng ( ). Based on speech synthesis and natural speech analysis, two acoustic criteria were suggested for distinguishing Qingsheng from the unstressed syllables which occur frequently in natural speech. The other is a tone sandhi phenomenon which differed from the known tonal behaviors and affected the application of normal tone sandhi rules in our text-to-Speech system. Tentative discussion was presented to solicit further theoretical enquiry.

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تاریخ انتشار 2004