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A Phonetic Model of Intonation in English

By Paul Alexander Taylor

Paul Taylor addresses the problem of how to relate the acoustic and phonological descriptions of intonation. Most previous work in this area either is not explicit enough to constitute a formal model, or does not cover a wide enough range of intonational phenomena. A multi-level approach to intonational description and new description systems on the phonological level and the intermediate (phonetic) level are proposed. A formal description is given of the mapping between each level. Taylor also investigates computer algorithms which attempt to analyze and synthesize Fo contours using the new description systems. Experiments and results are presented that give performance figures for the system.

171 pages
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