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
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