Barnard, EZarbian, S2012-07-032012-07-032010-05Barnard, 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 2010978-967-5417-75-7http://hdl.handle.net/10204/59712nd International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'10), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, 3-5 May 2010The 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.enTone languagesPitch contoursSepediSouthern BantuConference PresentationBarnard, E., & Zarbian, S. (2010). From tone to pitch in Sepedi. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5971Barnard, E, and S Zarbian. "From tone to pitch in Sepedi." (2010): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5971Barnard E, Zarbian S, From tone to pitch in Sepedi; 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5971 .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 -