What's in the F0 of Mandarin speech - Tones, intonation and beyond

Proceedings - 2008 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 45-48

  Tseng, Chiu Yu ^a   Su, Zhao Yu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adjacency; Cross over; F0 contour; Higher level contributions; HPG; Intonation; Prosody context; Tones

Indexed keywords

ADJACENCY; CROSS-OVER; F0 CONTOUR; HIGHER-LEVEL CONTRIBUTIONS; HPG; INTONATION; PROSODY CONTEXT; TONES;

TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 60849092914     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CHINSL.2008.ECP.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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