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From tone to pitch in Sepedi

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dc.contributor.author Barnard, E
dc.contributor.author Zarbian, S
dc.date.accessioned 2012-07-03T12:53:27Z
dc.date.available 2012-07-03T12:53:27Z
dc.date.issued 2010-05
dc.identifier.citation Barnard, E and Zarbian, S. From tone to pitch in Sepedi. 2nd International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'10), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, 3-5 May 2010 en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-967-5417-75-7
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5971
dc.description 2nd International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'10), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, 3-5 May 2010 en_US
dc.description.abstract The authors investigate the acoustic realization of tone in continuous utterances in Sepedi (a language in the Southern Bantu family). Human labelers marked each of the 271 syllables in a 15-sentence corpus produced by a single speaker as "high" or "low". Automatic pitch extraction was then used to estimate the fundamental frequencies of the voiced segments of each of these syllables. Statistical analysis of the resulting pitch contours confirms that the mean pitch frequencies of the syllabic nuclei serve as the primary indicator of tone, with the relative frequencies of successive syllables being the most relevant measure. Our analysis also suggests that additional factors may play a role in the production and perception of tone. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Workflow;4255
dc.subject Tone languages en_US
dc.subject Pitch contours en_US
dc.subject Sepedi en_US
dc.subject Southern Bantu en_US
dc.title From tone to pitch in Sepedi en_US
dc.type Conference Presentation en_US
dc.identifier.apacitation Barnard, E., & Zarbian, S. (2010). From tone to pitch in Sepedi. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5971 en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitation Barnard, E, and S Zarbian. "From tone to pitch in Sepedi." (2010): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5971 en_ZA
dc.identifier.vancouvercitation Barnard E, Zarbian S, From tone to pitch in Sepedi; 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5971 . en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Conference Presentation AU - Barnard, E AU - Zarbian, S AB - The authors investigate the acoustic realization of tone in continuous utterances in Sepedi (a language in the Southern Bantu family). Human labelers marked each of the 271 syllables in a 15-sentence corpus produced by a single speaker as "high" or "low". Automatic pitch extraction was then used to estimate the fundamental frequencies of the voiced segments of each of these syllables. Statistical analysis of the resulting pitch contours confirms that the mean pitch frequencies of the syllabic nuclei serve as the primary indicator of tone, with the relative frequencies of successive syllables being the most relevant measure. Our analysis also suggests that additional factors may play a role in the production and perception of tone. DA - 2010-05 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Tone languages KW - Pitch contours KW - Sepedi KW - Southern Bantu LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2010 SM - 978-967-5417-75-7 T1 - From tone to pitch in Sepedi TI - From tone to pitch in Sepedi UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5971 ER - en_ZA


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