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Comparison of declarative and interrogative intonation in Chinese
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In most of the world's languages, one can transform a statement into a question by raising the pitch at the end. This transformation is dubious in tone languages, as it could transform one lexical item into another. * How does one ask question in a tone language? * Is there is a question phrase curve? * Is there a question boundary tone? We build and train models of Mandarin Chinese intonation to answer these question. The resulting models have RMS errors of 10 Hz, or 1 semitone. We find ...
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- Publication status:
- Not published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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- Host title:
- Speech Prosody 2002
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- Language:
- English
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uuid:23282776-364f-4916-8908-399c930dfd8f
- Local pid:
- ora:2343
- Deposit date:
- 2008-09-24
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- Copyright holder:
- Greg Kochanski
- Copyright date:
- 2002
- Notes:
- The abstract of the conference poster was published, but the rest of the poster has not been.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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