Analysis and modeling of the intonation of Chinese unmarked questions

XU Xiaoying; LAI Wei; LI Ya; DING Xingguang; TAO Jianhua

doi:10.16511/j.cnki.qhdxxb.2018.26.001

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Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology) ›› 2018, Vol. 58 ›› Issue (2) : 175-180. DOI: 10.16511/j.cnki.qhdxxb.2018.26.001

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Analysis and modeling of the intonation of Chinese unmarked questions

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The identification of questions in speech needs a good understanding and accurate quantification of the intonation trends of questions. This paper uses a regression line of the pitch contour as an indicator of the intonation trend to analyze the intonation of experimental and natural questions. The slope of pitch contour regression line is an important prosodic feature for distinguishing questions from statements. This feature is influenced by factors such as sentence length and temporal domain of the sentence and differs for questions and statements. The inverse was then used to model changes of the intonation trend slope with a high goodness of fit as a reliable reference to predict and generate interrogative intonation.

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intonation / prosody / unmarked questions / intonation model

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XU Xiaoying, LAI Wei, LI Ya, DING Xingguang, TAO Jianhua. Analysis and modeling of the intonation of Chinese unmarked questions[J]. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology). 2018, 58(2): 175-180 https://doi.org/10.16511/j.cnki.qhdxxb.2018.26.001

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