Loudness predicts prominence
We explored a database covering seven dialects of British and Irish English and three different styles of speech to find acoustic correlates of prominence. We built classifiers, trained the classifiers on human prominence/nonprominence judgments, and then evaluated how well they behaved. The classif...
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Acoustical Society of America
2005
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| author | Kochanski, G Grabe, E Coleman, J Rosner, B |
| author_facet | Kochanski, G Grabe, E Coleman, J Rosner, B |
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| description | We explored a database covering seven dialects of British and Irish English and three different styles of speech to find acoustic correlates of prominence. We built classifiers, trained the classifiers on human prominence/nonprominence judgments, and then evaluated how well they behaved. The classifiers operate on 452 ms windows centred on syllables, using different acoustic measures. By comparing the performance of classifiers based on different measures, we can learn how prominence is expressed in speech. Contrary to textbooks and common assumption, fundamental frequency (f0) played a minor role in distinguishing prominent syllables from the rest of the utterance. Instead, speakers primarily marked prominence with patterns of loudness and duration. Two other acoustic measures that we examined also played a minor role, comparable to f0. All dialects and speaking styles studied here share a common definition of prominence. The result is robust to differences in labeling practice and the dialect of the labeler. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:84f7f74f-32ac-4e74-afc0-5c1df0b953492022-03-26T21:54:24ZLoudness predicts prominenceJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:84f7f74f-32ac-4e74-afc0-5c1df0b95349LinguisticsEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetAcoustical Society of America2005Kochanski, GGrabe, EColeman, JRosner, BWe explored a database covering seven dialects of British and Irish English and three different styles of speech to find acoustic correlates of prominence. We built classifiers, trained the classifiers on human prominence/nonprominence judgments, and then evaluated how well they behaved. The classifiers operate on 452 ms windows centred on syllables, using different acoustic measures. By comparing the performance of classifiers based on different measures, we can learn how prominence is expressed in speech. Contrary to textbooks and common assumption, fundamental frequency (f0) played a minor role in distinguishing prominent syllables from the rest of the utterance. Instead, speakers primarily marked prominence with patterns of loudness and duration. Two other acoustic measures that we examined also played a minor role, comparable to f0. All dialects and speaking styles studied here share a common definition of prominence. The result is robust to differences in labeling practice and the dialect of the labeler. |
| spellingShingle | Linguistics Kochanski, G Grabe, E Coleman, J Rosner, B Loudness predicts prominence |
| title | Loudness predicts prominence |
| title_full | Loudness predicts prominence |
| title_fullStr | Loudness predicts prominence |
| title_full_unstemmed | Loudness predicts prominence |
| title_short | Loudness predicts prominence |
| title_sort | loudness predicts prominence |
| topic | Linguistics |
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