A model of segmental duration for speech synthesis in French

Bartkova, Katarina; Sorin, Christel

doi:10.1016/0167-6393(87)90029-x

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“…Since vowels are shorter in non-word-final syllables than in word-final syllables in French (Delattre 1966;O'Shaugnessy 1984;Bartkova & Sorin 1987) and shorter vowels are more subject to co-articulation with neighboring consonants (Lindblom 1963), the loi (Tranel 1987). However, Nguyen and Fagyal (2008) did not find this effect in Southern French and it will not be further investigated in the present study.…”

Section: The Loi De Position In Non-word-final Syllablescontrasting

confidence: 49%

“…Second, while lowering of mid vowels is reported to happen across consonant types in word-final closed syllables in loi de position dialects, Bartkova and Sorin's (1987) study of vowel duration in VC# contexts suggests that the effect of C is consonant-specific and can be either a shortening or a lengthening effect depending on the consonant. This means that rimes probably do not have identical durations across the board and therefore the claim that all rimes are bimoraic is problematic.…”

Section: The Loi De Position and Mid Vowel Durationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Medial syllables were used rather than initial syllables for the non-word-final syllable condition because they are shorter (Bartkova & Sorin 1987) and thus provide a wider range of durations together with word-final syllables. Nonce words were used as stimuli in order to have a better control over the segmental context and to have a fully crossed design.…”

Section: Stimuli and Recordingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The <i>loi de position</i> and the acoustics of French mid vowels

Storme¹

2017

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Section: The Loi De Position In Non-word-final Syllablescontrasting

confidence: 49%

Section: The Loi De Position and Mid Vowel Durationmentioning

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The <i>loi de position</i> and the acoustics of French mid vowels

Storme¹

2017

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…This corresponded to a mean speaking rate of 3.2 syllables (syll)/s, which is rather slow when compared with speed of continuous speech. In fact, O'Shaughnessy (1984) and Bartkova and Sorin (1987) recorded talkers reading a French paragraph and found speaking rates for the most representative speakers ranging from 4.2 to 6.1 syll/s (mean: 5.2 syll/s). A detailed analysis of phoneme durations for the different words of the paragraph was conducted by O'Shaughnessy (1984), allowing us to estimate the speaking rate for the nine trisyllabic words included in that paragraph.…”

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The Effect of Speaking Rate on the Role of the Uniqueness Point in Spoken Word Recognition

Radeau¹,

Morais²,

Mousty³

et al. 2000

Journal of Memory and Language

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Using gender decision and shadowing tasks, we compared recognition of French nouns with early or late uniqueness points (UP) that were articulated at three different rates. With gender decision, the medium rate (3.6 syllables (syll)/s), which is close to that used by Radeau, Mousty, and Bertelson (1989), gave rise to a comparable UP location effect. The effect increased at the slower rate (2.2 syll/s), but disappeared at the faster rate (5.6 syll/s). With shadowing, only the slow rate gave rise to a UP effect. A similar pattern of results was found using speech that was linearly compressed or expanded. Because the fast rate is close to that typical of conversational speech, the present results cast doubt on the relevance of the UP in the processing of fluent speech. The implications of rate effects for models of spoken word recognition are discussed.

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“…In contrast to the relative sparsity of work on speech unit generation, many quantitative analyses have been carried out for prosody control. Specifically, quantitative analyses and modeling of segmental duration control have been carried out for many languages using massive annotated speech corpora (Carlson & Granström, 1986;Bartkova & Sorin, 1987;Klatt, 1987;Umeda, 1975).…”

Section: Prosody Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%