Glottalization in inventory construction: a cross-language study

Ding, Hongwei; Jokisch, Oliver; Hofmann, R.

doi:10.1109/chinsl.2004.1409580

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“…The pitch markings were manually corrected to ensure utmost accuracy of F0. Some speakers (including both English and Chinese, male and female) demonstrated much glottalization [16] in their speech, and pitch mark mistakes usually took place when the glottalization occurred, which required much manual adjustment. We tried our best to correct the voiced parts with little glottalization, the voiced parts with strong glottalization were specially annotated, and were not included in the calculation of F0 values.…”

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Prosodic transfer: A comparison study of F0 patterns in L2 English by Chinese speakers

Ding¹,

Hoffmann²,

Hirst³

2016

Speech Prosody 2016

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A comparison was made among the fundamental frequency (F0) patterns of continuous speech in English, Mandarin Chinese and L2 English produced by Chinese speakers. Ten adult native Chinese speakers were asked to read narrative text written in both English and Chinese. The comparative analysis of 300 sentences was performed in the following aspects: F0 mean, pitch range, pitch change rate and pitch change amount. It is found that in terms of both pitch range on the phoneme level and pitch change amount on the utterance level, L2 English speech by Chinese subjects displayed a significantly larger value than the English speech by native speakers. Moreover, the same Chinese subjects demonstrated still a larger value in these two pitch-related variables in their Chinese speech. The dynamic characteristic of L2 English can be attributed to the negative transfer of L1 Chinese. The findings can shed some light on the understanding of the difference in F0 patterns between a tone language and a non-tone language, and can also provide some implications for L2 speech learning.

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Section: Analysis Proceduresmentioning

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Prosodic transfer: A comparison study of F0 patterns in L2 English by Chinese speakers

Ding¹,

Hoffmann²,

Hirst³

2016

Speech Prosody 2016

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“…In order to conduct the investigation, it is important to know the circumstances where glottalization occurs. According to the findings in different languages [2], [3], [4], glottalized voice quality can appear in a variety of locations, it often occurs at the vowel initial, especially V-V hiatus, plosives and at the end of phrases or utterances. In order to capture different occurrences of glottalization, Kohler [4] divided it into three categories in terms of prosody: • Plosive prosody: glottalization of plosives;…”

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“…The fact that speakers exhibit irregular speech signal, which is referred to as glottalization, in normal speech has been observed in many languages: in English [2], German [4], Chinese [3] and many other languages [6]. Glottalization can serve as a communicative function in natural speech, if it can be reproduced in speech synthesis, the naturalness of synthesis can also be improved.…”

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“…In dealing with the databases of speaker selection for multilingual speech synthesis [3], we came across the problem of glottalization. We wondered whether the occurrences of glottalization destroy the preference of voice for the listeners, and whether the occurrence and degree of glottalization of an individual speaker can be influenced by different reading styles.…”

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The effect of glottalization on voice preference

Ding,

Jokisch,

Hoffmann

2006

Speech Prosody 2006

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The impact of phrasal prosody on glottalization is documented in many publications ([4], [7]). Besides prosodic boundary and stress, other influencing factors such as the speaking style have been studied in [8]. The work reported here examines the relationship between the objective preference of listeners and the occurrence of speakers' glottalization, speech data employed for this purpose were phonetically balanced sentences in six languages. Additional experiment, concerning the influence of reading style on glottalization, was conducted with American words and phrases read with monotone and isolated Chinese syllables segmented from carrier sentences. Evaluating the statistics from this investigation, we can come to following conclusions: (a) The occurrence and degree of glottalization can be different across speakers. (b) As an prosodic effect, glottalization is not undesired for speakers. (c) A well-defined reading style can increase the occurrence.

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A preliminary investigation of the third tone sandhi in standard Chinese with a prosodic corpus

Ding

Hirst

2012

2012 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing

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Glottalization in inventory construction: a cross-language study

Cited by 5 publications

References 3 publications

Prosodic transfer: A comparison study of F0 patterns in L2 English by Chinese speakers

Prosodic transfer: A comparison study of F0 patterns in L2 English by Chinese speakers

The effect of glottalization on voice preference

A preliminary investigation of the third tone sandhi in standard Chinese with a prosodic corpus

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