• DocumentCode
    312059
  • Title

    Distinction between `normal´ and `contrastive/emphatic´ focus

  • Author

    Elsner, Anja Petzold

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. fur Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik, Bonn Univ., Germany
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    3-6 Oct 1996
  • Firstpage
    642
  • Abstract
    A method to extract and classify focus accents has been developed. It works for German spontaneous speech. The method tries to distinguish `normal´ and `contrastive/emphatic´ focus accents using phrase boundaries. It was found that contrastive/emphatic accents tend to have greater distances to phrase boundaries than normal focus accents. Moreover, for contrastive/emphatic accents there was found a much steeper F0 rise for accents with a rather high distance from the next phrase boundary
  • Keywords
    natural languages; speech processing; speech recognition; F0 rise; German spontaneous speech; contrastive/emphatic focus accents; phrase boundaries; speech recognition; Character recognition; Electronic mail; Frequency; Network address translation; Smoothing methods; Speech processing; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Philadelphia, PA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3555-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607443
  • Filename
    607443
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=312059