Low-frequency Fourier analysis of speech rhythm

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Tilsen, Sam ^a   Johnson, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AMPLITUDE ENVELOPE; BAND-PASS; FILTERED SPEECH; FOURIER; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; LOW FREQUENCIES; SPECTRAL INFORMATIONS; SPEECH RHYTHM; TIME-DOMAIN MEASUREMENTS;

SPEECH;

ARTICLE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; SPEECH;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PERIODICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 49249127751     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2947626     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Abercrombie, D. (1967). Elements of General Phonetics (Aldine, Chicago).
2. Allen, G. D. (1972). " The location of rhythmic stress beats in English: An experimental study, parts I and II.." Lang Speech 15, 72-100,179-195.
3. Allen, G. D. (1975). " Speech rhythm: Its relation to performance and articulatory timing.," J. Phonetics 3, 75-86.
4. Bolinger, D. (1968). Aspects of Language (Harcourt, Brace, and World, New York.)
5. Chatfield, C. (1975). The Analysis of Time Series (Chapman and Hall, London).
6. Cummins, F., and Port, R. (1998). " Rhythmic constraints on stress timing in English.," J. Phonetics 26, 145-171.
7. Dauer, R. M. (1983). " Stress-timing and syllable-timing reanalyzed.," J. Phonetics 11, 51-62.
8. Howell, P. (1988). " Prediction of P-center location from the distribution of energy in the amplitude envelope.," Percept. Psychophys. 43 (1), 90-93.
9. Jenkins, G. M., and Watts, D. G. (1968). Spectral Analysis and Its Applications (Holden-Day, San Francisco).
10. Ladd, D. R. (1996). Intonational Phonology (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 79) (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge).
11. Lehiste, I. (1977). " Isochrony reconsidered.," J. Phonetics 5 (3), 253-263.
12. Morton, J., Marcus, S., and Frankish, C. (1976). " Perceptual Centers (P-centers).," Psychol. Rev. 83 (5), 405-408.
13. Nakatani, L. H., O'Connor, K. D., and Aston, C. H. (1981). " Prosodic aspects of American English speech rhythm.," Phonetica 38 (1-3), 84-106.
14. Pike, K. L. (1945). The Intonation of American English (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor).
15. Pitt, M. A., Johnson, K., Hume, E., Kiesling, S., and Raymond, W. (2005). " The Buckeye corpus of conversational speech: Labeling conventions and a test of transcriber reliability.," Speech Commun. 45 (1), 89-95.
16. Pompino-Marschall, B. (1989). " On the psychoacoustic nature of the P-center phenomenon.," J. Phonetics 17, 175-192.
17. Port, R. F., Dalby, J., and O'Dell, M. (1987). " Evidence for mora-timing in Japanese.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 81 (5), 1574-1585.
18. Ramus, F., Nespor, M., and Mehler, J. (1999). " Correlates of linguistic rhythm in the speech signal.," Cognition 73, 265-292.
19. Roach, P. (1982). " On the distinction between 'stress-timed' and 'syllable-timed' languages.," in, D. Crystal, Linguistic Controversies (Arnold, London).