Time Types and Time Trees: Prosodic Mining and Alignment of Temporally Annotated Data

Gibbon, Dafydd

doi:10.1515/9783110914641.181

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“…Global and local linear measures of segmental variability known as 'rhythm metrics' have been used to classify languages according to the traditional rhythm taxonomy, with very limited success (for formal and empirical critique, see especially Cummins 2002;Gibbon 2006;Arvaniti 2012). Nonetheless, in a study by Ramus et al (1999), a short text read by four Polish speakers exhibited high standard deviation of consonantal intervals (ΔC) and a low proportion of vocalic intervals (%V).…”

Section: Rhythm Typementioning

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Rhythmic structure effects on glottalisation: A study of different speech styles in Polish and German

Malisz

Żygis

Pompino-Marschall

2013

Laboratory Phonology

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"But the increasing interest in connected, more specifically spontaneous speech data bases has made it mandatory for researchers to enter into phonetics and phonology above the word in real-life communication, and it is in this domain that glottalisation phenomena abound." (Kohler 2001: 317) Abstract: The present paper examines glottal stops and the glottalisation of word-initial vowels in Polish and German. The presence of glottal marking is studied depending on speech style ('speech' vs. 'dialogue'), prominence, phrasal position, speech rate, word type, preceding segment, and following vowel height. A question is also posed about the extent to which glottal marking might be dependent on the rhythmic structure of a given language or style. We analyzed recordings of 18 Polish and German speakers. The results point to significant differences between the two languages. In German, glottal marking occurs significantly more often (63.4%) than in Polish (45%). Whereas in both languages (and both styles) the majority of prominent vowels are more often glottally marked than non-prominent vowels, in German word-initial non-prominent syllables are also marked relatively often. Regarding phrase position, glottal marking occurs significantly more often at the phrase-initial position compared to phrase-medial position in Polish, while no such difference has been found in German. In addition, it is shown that in both languages glottal marking is strongly dependent on the tongue height of the marked vowel: low vowels are more frequently glottalised than non-low vowels. Finally, glottal marking in Polish is more likely to occur when rhythmic variability shifts towards the 'indeterminate', strengthening the hypothesis that glottal marking facilitates perceptual grouping.

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Section: Rhythm Typementioning

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Rhythmic structure effects on glottalisation: A study of different speech styles in Polish and German

Malisz

Żygis

Pompino-Marschall

2013

Laboratory Phonology

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“…Campbell 1992;Gibbon 2006). Further, syllable lengths increase over the length of the utterance, both overall (as shown by the slightly rising regression line), but also the stressed syllables /taɪ/, /maʊs/ increase in length, a pattern which is repeated in the second half, also overall slightly higher, with the syllables /wɔːk/ and /fiːld/, marking a hierarchical timing structure (cf.…”

Section: Syllable Timing Patternsmentioning

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“…And starting points have been very different, so that rhythm studies have varied greatly over the years in the methods used, and consqeuently phoneticians have come to very different conclusions. A classification of approaches to such rhythm models and metrics was proposed by Gibbon (2006), and some of these will be referred to in the present study. Later phonological 'rhythm' studies combined these with data structures such as trees and histograms ('grids', i.e.…”

Section: Rhythm Schema Rhythm Interpretation and Rhythm Performancementioning

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2 Speech rhythms – modelling the groove

Gibbon¹

2015

Rhythm in Cognition and Grammar

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“…We propose a bottom-up acoustic measure for parsing into larger speech units (Peak Units), and have implemented a tool for examining the duration properties of these larger groups. The Peak Units are shallow or minimal Time Trees of depth 2, in the sense of Gibbon [16]. The data flow design is shown in Figure 3.…”

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Criteria for database and tool design for speech timing analysis with special reference to mandarin

Gibbon

2012

2012 International Conference on Speech Database and Assessments

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This position paper investigates some of the problems in modelling speech timing for the design of speech databases and corpus analysis tools for phonetics and speech technology. First we examine a selection of phonetic approaches to speech timing analysis, the so-called 'rhythm metrics', and focus on explaining (1) inconsistencies (varying results for the same language) and (2) the failure to model rhythmic alternation. To overcome these problems we present a new perspective on the phonetic identification of rhythm patterns as a special case of duration modelling, including the additional criterion of alternation. We describe the Rhythm Parser, a tool for identifying hierarchical alternating patterns, and discuss results from applying it.

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Time Types and Time Trees: Prosodic Mining and Alignment of Temporally Annotated Data

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Rhythmic structure effects on glottalisation: A study of different speech styles in Polish and German

Rhythmic structure effects on glottalisation: A study of different speech styles in Polish and German

2 Speech rhythms – modelling the groove

Criteria for database and tool design for speech timing analysis with special reference to mandarin

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