Open AccessF0 thoughs and prosodic phrasing: an investigation into the linguistic information contained in a speaker's baseline when reading
Author(s) -
Anne Wichmann
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
hermes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.759
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1903-1785
pISSN - 0904-1699
DOI - 10.7146/hjlcb.v7i13.25084
Subject(s) - prosody , baseline (sea) , reading aloud , read aloud , reading (process) , linguistics , computer science , pitch contour , speech recognition , intonation (linguistics) , psychology , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , philosophy , oceanography , geology
This paper examines some aspects of the prosody of reading aloud. The pitch contour of a read text was examined, and the low troughs, or valleys, in the contour were identified. The pitch of these troughs, and their position in the text, was found to relate systematically to the structure of the text. This suggests that the speaker’s pitch baseline may carry important linguistic information.