@InProceedings{Mixdorff2010_314,
author = {Hansjörg Mixdorff},
booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2010},
title = {On the Alignment of Prosodic Events},
year = {2010},
editor = {Hansjörg Mixdorff},
month = mar,
pages = {15--22},
publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
abstract = {The current study examinesthe relationship between intonational gestures as
given by the accent commands of the Fujisaki model and the syllabic grid on the
example of spontaneous American English from the Buckeye Corpus. Asaninitial step
the data were labelled according to American English ToBI conventions. Intensity
contours were extracted from the band-filtered speech signal and modelled using a
second-order linear model like the accent control mechanism of the Fujisaki model. It
wasobserved that certain accent types such as L* occasionally required the use of accent commands with negative polarity. The timing properties of the underlying accent
commands correspond to the type of accentlabel, i.e., for instance, early for H*L and
late for L*H. Accents in the vicinity of a boundary exhibited slightly higher accent
command amplitudes whereas the highest syllable command amplitudes were observed
for phrase-initial and medial accents. With respect to the alignment of accent
commands, the onsets of syllable commandsdid not prove to be more precise anchoring
points than the segmental boundaries of the syllable.},
isbn = {978-3-941298-85-9},
issn = {0940-6832},
keywords = {Session in Honor of Hiroya Fujisaki},
url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/pdf/2010_15_22.pdf},
}