@InProceedings{Ding2015_368,
author = {Hongwei Ding and Rüdiger Hoffmann and Daniel Hirst},
booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2015},
title = {An Investigation of English Prosody Produced by Chinese Speakers},
year = {2015},
editor = {Günther Wirsching},
month = mar,
pages = {158--164},
publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
abstract = {This study is concerned with the prosodic properties of English speech
produced by Chinese students. The database used in this study is a reasonably
large-scale, multilingual speech corpus designed for prosody research. The speech
data contains three recordings: 1) 40 English passages read by 10 native English
speakers; 2) the same English passages read by 10 Chinese native speakers; 3)
40 Chinese passages read by the same Chinese speakers. Momel algorithm was
employed to calculate the melody metrics on this database, and 14 prosodic parameters
were compared among the three types of speech. The discrimination of Chinese
English from native English and native Chinese regardless of gender reached
approximately 76.5%. The results demonstrated that the pitch movements in Mandarin
Chinese were greater and faster than in English, and the English produced by
Chinese speakers showed greater and faster pitch movements than native English
speech, but smaller and slower pitch movements than Mandarin Chinese speech.
However, there was a slight difference between Chinese male and female speakers,
but larger differences between English male and female speakers. Chinese female
speakers even displayed smaller magnitudes of pitch movements on the basis of
Momel targets than English female speakers in their English speech. Further investigations
should be carried out to find out the reasons of such pitch movement
patterns.},
isbn = {978-3-959080-00-2},
issn = {0940-6832},
keywords = {Prosodie},
url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/2015_158_164.pdf},
}