Taheri-Ardali, M;
Xu, Y;
(2015)
An articulatory-functional approach to modeling Persian focus prosody.
In: Wolters, M and Livingstone, J and Beattie, B and Smith, R, (eds.)
Proceedings of 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
International Phonetic Association: Glasgow, UK.
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Abstract
This paper is an attempt to test PENTA, an articulatory-functional model, on Persian focus prosody. The test was done on a corpus consisting of utterances with different focus conditions using PENTAtrainer2, a trainable prosody synthesizer that optimizes categorical pitch targets each corresponding to multiple communicative functions. The evaluation was done by comparing the F0 contours generated by the extracted pitch targets to those of natural utterances through numerical and perceptual evaluations. The numerical results showed that the synthesized F0 was close to the natural contour in terms of RMSE (= 1.94) and Pearson’s r (= 0.84). Perceptual evaluation showed that the rate of focus identification and naturalness judgement by native Persian listeners were highly similar between synthetic and natural F0 contours.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | An articulatory-functional approach to modeling Persian focus prosody |
| Event: | The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 10-14 August 2015 |
| Location: | Glasgow |
| ISBN-13: | 9780852619414 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/i... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | The Proceedings of ICPhS 2015 are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). This means that the work must be attributed to the author (BY clause), no one can use the work commercially (NC clause), and the work cannot be modified by anyone who re-uses it (ND clause). |
| Keywords: | PENTA model, focus, quantitative target approximation, Persian. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1536170 |
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