Name
Abstract | ||
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Much theoretical work has been done on the tonal structure of languages in the Bantu family. However, most of these studies are not supported by physical measurements, or even a consis- tent model for mapping from linguistic constructs to such mea- surements. As a first step towards addressing this deficiency, we report on initial measurements regarding the relationship be- tween fundamental frequency and linguistic tone in isiZulu. Af- ter choosing a suitable algorithm for pitch extraction, we have correlated a number of linguistically assigned tone values with measured values for fundamental frequency. These measure- ments indicate a fairly complex relationship between tone and pitch, and suggest that the commonly observed 'falling' tone in isiZulu may be a context-specific realization of the high tone. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
2005 | INTERSPEECH | fundamental frequency |
Field | DocType | Citations |
Fundamental frequency,Bantu languages,Computer science,Speech recognition | Conference | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.36 | 3 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natasha Govender | 1 | 4 | 1.43 |
| Etienne Barnard | 2 | 24 | 3.19 |
| Marelie H. Davel | 3 | 236 | 22.70 |