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On Finding Word-Level Break-Type Formation Rules For Mandarin Read Speech
(2015)
Kung, Fu-Ja
;
Lee, Pa-Hwa
;
Wang, Yih-Ru
;
Chen, Sin-Horng
;
Chiang, Chen-Yu
This paper presents a study on exploring word-level break-type formation rules for Mandarin read speech. A 4-layer hierarchical structure with seven break types is adopted to represent the prosody of utterance. The work is based on the break-type tags labeled on a large read-speech database by the prosody labeling and modeling algorithm (PLM) proposed previously. Occurrence frequencies of seven break types for pre- and post-boundaries of several types of function words are calculated and taken as the inferred statistical break-type formation rules. Linguistic interpretations of the most likely break types occurred at pre- and post-boundaries of each function word are discussed. Some exceptions that deviate from the most likely break types are also examined.