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Assessing syllable strength via an auditory model.
Authors:
Allerhand, M., Butterfield, S., Cutler, A. & Patterson, R.
Reference:
In Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, Vol. 14, part 6 (pp. 297-304).
Year of publication:
1992
CBU number:
2890
Abstract:
We describe an empirical study of the processing of prosodic information in continuous speech. The results of a previous word boundary perception experiment are correlated with measures of syllable strength derived from an auditory model. The aim is twofold: To evaluate the performance of prototype measures of pitch-strength and loudness as a criterion of syllable strength, and to correlate these measures with human listeners' use of syllable strength as a word boundary cue.
