Quantitative measurement of prosodic strength in Mandarin

We describe models of Mandarin prosody that allow us to make quantitative measurements of prosodic strengths. These models use Stem-ML, which is a phenomenological model of the muscle dynamics and planning process that controls the tension of the vocal folds, and therefore the pitch of speech. Becau...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kochanski, G, Shih, C, Jing, H
Other Authors: European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP)
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2003
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