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Abstract | ||
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Vowels are thought to play an important role in sub-dialect identification. How they vary among sub-dialects in tonal language has never been examined yet. Acoustic correlates of vowels from three sub-dialects, such as vowel patterns, formant values, formant trajectories, vowel inherent spectral change (VISC), and HNR, were investigated in the present study. The results of this acoustic study confirmed that vowels still played an important role in sub-dialect identification even in tone language. Vowel inherent spectral change showed significant and systematic differences among these sub-dialects, which might prove itself as an important acoustics cue for sub-dialect identification. Frication also can be a feature for vowels to distinguish itself from its variations in other sub-dialects. Tonal variations, however, indeed exist across these sub-dialectal regions. Thus in further studies we would prefer to build models for production and perception with vowels and tones weighted. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2016 | 10.1109/ISCSLP.2016.7918422 | 2016 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
vowel,sub-dialect identification,formant trajectory,fricative vowel | Mid vowel,Computer science,Spectrogram,Speech recognition,Vowel,Formant,Perception | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-5090-4295-1 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 2 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Huangmei Liu | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| jie liang | 2 | 26 | 10.90 |