Intonational structure in Japanese and English

Beckman, Mary E.; Pierrehumbert, Janet B.

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“…For English, there are at least two categories above the word level although further additional categories have been proposed. We follow Beckman & Pierrehumbert [20] and refer to these two categories as the intermediate phrase (ip) and intonation phrase (IP). A schematic representation of the hierarchy is given in figure 1.…”

Section: The Prosodic Hierarchymentioning

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Gestural coordination at prosodic boundaries and its role for prosodic structure and speech planning processes

Krivokapic

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Prosodic structure is a grammatical component that serves multiple functions in the production, comprehension and acquisition of language. Prosodic boundaries are critical for the understanding of the nature of the prosodic structure of language, and important progress has been made in the past decades in illuminating their properties. We first review recent prosodic boundary research from the point of view of gestural coordination. We then go on to tie in this work to questions of speech planning and manual and head movement. We conclude with an outline of a new direction of research which is needed for a full understanding of prosodic boundaries and their role in the speech production process.

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Section: The Prosodic Hierarchymentioning

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“…Within one approach, they are determined based predominantly on syntactic structure [18,19], whereas another approach identifies them based on intonational properties (e.g. [20,21]; see [22,23] for a discussion of these two approaches).…”

Section: The Prosodic Hierarchymentioning

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Gestural coordination at prosodic boundaries and its role for prosodic structure and speech planning processes

Krivokapic

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…The common view is that the focused word receives a pitch accent while the defocused counterpart is de-accented (e.g., Beckman & Pierrehumbert, 1986) especially if following the focused item. Alternatively, the type of pitch accent employed may differ between focused and defocused constituents (e.g., Baumann et al, 2006 for German).…”

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“…Phonetic markers of narrow (or contrastive) focus include the raising of the phrase-initial pitch and a higher F 0 peak in the prosodic phrase (Féry, 2001). In Japanese, which has lexical pitch accent, dephrasing or prosodic subordination seems to occur in relation to focal structure (e.g., Beckman & Pierrehumbert, 1986;Gussehnhoven, 2004). For instance, Venditti et al (2008) discuss a variety of intonational means to mark focus in Japanese, including pitch range expansion, F 0 reset at the left edge of the focused constituent which may co-occur with the insertion of the IP boundary at the beginning of the focused constituent, dephrasing (i.e., post-focal prosodic subordination), and boundary pitch movement (H%, HL%).…”

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Prosodic Marking of Narrow Focus in Seoul Korean

Nolan

2017

Laboratory Phonology

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This paper explores prosodic marking of narrow (corrective) focus in Seoul Korean. Korean lacks lexical stress and it has a phonologized association between the Accentual Phrase (AP) initial segment and intonation. In the experiment, 4 speakers read sentences including a two-item list which were designed to elicit either an L or H AP-initial tone. The durational variations, the pitch events at prosodic boundaries, and F 0 span in 32 sentences read neutrally and 64 sentences read with one of the items under focus were analyzed. The results show that the focused constituent consistently initiates a new prosodic phrase. In comparison to the neutrally spoken or defocused counterpart, the focused constituent was more likely to be realized as an Intonational Phrase (IP) in some contexts. Bitonal IP boundary tones were more likely to occur under focus than monotonal tones. In addition, in focused constituents, durational expansion particularly at the phrase-edges, expansion in F 0 span, and raising of the phrase-initial pitch were observed. On the other hand, defocused constituents were not phonetically reduced compared to the neutral counterparts. The results imply that the phonetic cues spreading over the focused constituent complement the exaggerated prosodic boundaries.

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“…In speech synthesis application, the use of syllable vectors mainly targets at F0 prediction. For English speech, the F0 trajectory is the acoustic realization of pitch accent while the pitch accent is usually associated with the stressed syllable [29]. When the stress information is not available for acoustic modeling (e.g., the R N system in Sect.…”

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Investigation of Using Continuous Representation of Various Linguistic Units in Neural Network Based Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Wang

Takaki

Yamagishi

2016

IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst.

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SUMMARYBuilding high-quality text-to-speech (TTS) systems without expert knowledge of the target language and/or time-consuming manual annotation of speech and text data is an important yet challenging research topic. In this kind of TTS system, it is vital to find representation of the input text that is both effective and easy to acquire. Recently, the continuous representation of raw word inputs, called "word embedding", has been successfully used in various natural language processing tasks. It has also been used as the additional or alternative linguistic input features to a neural-network-based acoustic model for TTS systems. In this paper, we further investigate the use of this embedding technique to represent phonemes, syllables and phrases for the acoustic model based on the recurrent and feed-forward neural network. Results of the experiments show that most of these continuous representations cannot significantly improve the system's performance when they are fed into the acoustic model either as additional component or as a replacement of the conventional prosodic context. However, subjective evaluation shows that the continuous representation of phrases can achieve significant improvement when it is combined with the prosodic context as input to the acoustic model based on the feed-forward neural network.

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Intonational structure in Japanese and English

Cited by 980 publications

References 16 publications

Gestural coordination at prosodic boundaries and its role for prosodic structure and speech planning processes

Gestural coordination at prosodic boundaries and its role for prosodic structure and speech planning processes

Prosodic Marking of Narrow Focus in Seoul Korean

Investigation of Using Continuous Representation of Various Linguistic Units in Neural Network Based Text-to-Speech Synthesis

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