Brierley, C and Atwell, ES (2010) Complex vowels as boundary correlates in a multi-speaker corpus of spontaneous English speech. In: Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010 Conference. Speech Prosody 2010 Conference, 11-14 May 2010, Chicago, USA.
Abstract
We have found empirical evidence of a correlation in English between words containing complex vowels (diphthongs and triphthongs) and ‘gold-standard’ phrase break annotations in datasets as apparently different as seventeenth-century verse and a Reith lecture transcript on economics from the late twentieth-century. Spontaneous speech in the form of BBC radio news reportage from the 1980s again exhibits this statistically significant correlation for five out of ten speakers, leading to speculation as to why speakers should fall into two distinct groups. The experiment depends on the automatic annotation of text with a priori knowledge from ProPOSEL, a prosody and part-of-speech English lexicon.
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Computing (Leeds) > Artificial Intelligence & Biological Systems (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2014 14:58 |
Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 13:29 |
Published Version: | http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/10001... |
Status: | Published |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:81704 |