Acoustic cues to perceived prominence levels – evidence from German spontaneous speech

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn 2016-January, Issue , 2016, Pages 711-715

  Baumann, Stefan ^a   Niebuhr, Oliver ^b   Schroeter, Bastian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Kiel and Lungen Clinic Grosshansdorf   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annotation; German; Intonation; Perception; Phrase accent; Pitch accent; Prominence; Spontaneous speech

Indexed keywords

SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH;

ANNOTATION; GERMAN; INTONATION; PHRASE ACCENT; PITCH ACCENTS; PROMINENCE; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84983000381     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2016-146     Document Type: Conference Paper

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