• DocumentCode
    339166
  • Title

    An investigation of the Chinese rolling tongue consonants by time-frequency analysis

  • Author

    Zhou, Ligung ; Seki, Hideuki ; Kido, Ken´iti

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Chiba Inst. of Technol., Narashino, Japan
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    1998
  • Firstpage
    698
  • Abstract
    This paper deals with some special monosyllabic Chinese words which contain rolling tongue (retroflex) consonants. According to the spectrum analysis, the special characteristic is found at frequencies higher than 3 kHz. The distinction is not only in the consonant part but also in the vowel part. The people in the north region of China distinguish the rolling tongue consonants and the normal consonants both in their utterance and in their hearing, but those in the south region of China do not
  • Keywords
    acoustic analysis; spectral analysis; speech processing; speech recognition; time-frequency analysis; China; Chinese rolling tongue consonants; consonant part; monosyllabic Chinese words; retroflex consonants; spectrum analysis; time-frequency analysis; vowel part; Aging; Auditory system; Band pass filters; Computer science; Equations; Natural languages; Speech; Time frequency analysis; Tongue; Wavelet analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Signal Processing Proceedings, 1998. ICSP '98. 1998 Fourth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4325-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICOSP.1998.770307
  • Filename
    770307