Chinese
Intonation:
Connecting Linguistics to Acoustics
Questions
What is the goal?
Existing work
But F0 bumps
don’t match accents…
Existing work
Existing work
The
Challenge
Another Challenge
Basic assumptions used in
modeling
Speech is planned.
People talk nearly as
fast as possible.
Speech could be optimal
Optimize what?
Modeling math
“Effort”
Modeling math
Model behavior
Q:Where did this
“strength” come from?
Physical implementations
of prosody
Modeling math
The rest of the model.
Model fits to Mandarin
Chinese
What’s the procedure?
Model fits for Mandarin
Chinese
Strengths are stable
under small changes in the model.
Model parameters
Model parameters
Model parameters
Metrical patterns inside
words
Other nice properties
Local Conclusion
But does it work for
English?
English
The model for English
Model details
Model fits well over a
range of speeds.
More fits - English
confirming questions.
Local conclusion
Why is the model so
compact?
Similar Effects in other
Articulators?
Conclusion
Conclusion