抄録
The perception of Japanese pitch accent was investigated using synthetic speech in which the F0 was artificially removed. While the F0 is said to be the primary cue to pitch accent in Japanese, it is not certain whether acoustic correlates other than F0 exist. The results of previous production studies that examined vowel duration or intensity as a correlate of pitch accent are mixed. The present study attempts to find correlates of pitch accent from the other end, i.e., perception. A native Tokyo Japanese speaker produced 14 disyllabic minimal pairs that differed only in the presence or absence of accent (e.g./haná/'flower' when accented vs./hana/'nose' when unaccented) in a carrier sentence. The utterances were then edited by replacing the F0 with random noise, which is somewhat similar to whispered speech in that there is no voicing. Twenty-two native speakers of Tokyo Japanese identified the words in two kinds of stimuli, the 14 minimal pairs as produced by the speaker and the synthetic speech. The results suggest evidence of pitch accent in synthetic speech. Furthermore, exposure to natural speech seems to improve the listener's ability to identify words in subsequent synthetic speech and vice versa, to varying degrees.
本文言語 | English |
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ホスト出版物のタイトル | Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics |
出版社 | Acoustical Society of America |
巻 | 14 |
DOI | |
出版ステータス | Published - 2011 |
イベント | 162nd Meeting Acoustical Society of America 2011 - San Diego, CA, United States 継続期間: 2011 10月 31 → 2011 11月 4 |
Other
Other | 162nd Meeting Acoustical Society of America 2011 |
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国/地域 | United States |
City | San Diego, CA |
Period | 11/10/31 → 11/11/4 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- 音響学および超音波学