The paper presents an outline of a system for grammatical tagging of the London-Lund Corpus of spoken English consisting of some 450 000 words. The material, all of which will be available on magnetic computer tape, and part of which is now available in both machinereadable and printed form, has been transcribed orthographically with prosodic marking for tone units, nuclei, stresses, pauses, et...

Problem statement: Tone intelligibility in speech synthesis is an important attribute that should be taken into account. The tone correctness of the synthetic speech is degraded considerably in the average-voice-based HMM-based Thai speech synthesis. The tying mechanism in the decision tree based context clustering without appropriate criterion causes unexpected tone neutralization. Incorporati...

Kammu, a Mon-Khmer language spoken in Northern Laos is a language that has developed lexical tones rather recently, from the point of view of language history. One of the main dialects of this language is a tone language of the “East Asian” type with (high or low) tone on each syllable, while the other main dialect lacks lexical tones. The dialects differ only marginally in other respects. This...

in this article, according to the 5 transcriptions of iranian vocal masters, we try to observe some of various functions of tahrir in iranian classical music with comparative - analytic method and schenkerian analysis. the goal of usage schenkerian analysis is to interpret the underlying structure of tahrirs by showing hierarchical relationships among tones, and also drawing the graphs  of redu...

In this study we investigate the nature and distribution of an Intonation Phrase medial H tone in Tashlhiyt Berber. We analyse it as a right edge tone of an Accentual Phrase with a secondary association to a syllable with a sonorant nucleus. In the absence of such a syllable in the target word, H may align with a transitional vocoid, although its location is highly variable. Since these vocoids...

Theoretical framework: ŸSociolinguistics (Labov, Chafe, Biber, etc.) ŸConversation Analysis (Sacks, Schegloff, Jefferson, Wooffitt, etc.) ŸIntonational Analysis (Pierrehumbert, Beckman, etc.) Diverse units in spontaneous speech: Ÿspeech act Ÿidea unit Ÿinformation unit Ÿintonation unit, intonational phrase, tone group Ÿprosodic unit, prosodic phrase, prosodic group, prosodic utterance Ÿbreath g...

We have previously demonstrated that tone modeling improved speech recognition on a digit corpus [7]. In this work, we further improve tone recognition by normalizing for both tone coarticulation and intonation effects. The tone classification errors on continuous digit strings were reduced by 26.1% from the baseline, when the effects of F0 downdrift, phrase boundary and tone coarticulation wer...

We have previously demonstrated that tone modeling improved speech recognition on a digit corpus [7]. In this work, we further improve tone recognition by normalizing for both tone coarticulation and intonation effects. The tone classification errors on continuous digit strings were reduced by 26.1% from the baseline, when the effects of F0 downdrift, phrase boundary and tone coarticulation wer...

This paper introduces a new model of prosodic typology by adding a parameter called macro-rhythm to the two known prosodic parameters, types of prominence marking (head, head/edge, edge) and word prosody (stress, tone, lexical pitch accent). Macro-rhythm is a tonal rhythm (a sequence of H/L alternation) in an Intonation Phrase. It captures similarities and differences across languages in terms ...