A Quantitative Model of Yorùbá Speech Intonation Using Stem-ML
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We present a quantitative model of Standard Yorùbá (SY) intonation; it is designed to have parameters that are linguistically interpretable. The model is built and trained on speech data from a native speaker of SY. The resulting model reproduces the data well: its Root Mean Square prediction error (RMSE) is 14:00 Hz on a test set. We find that intonation is used to mark sentence and phrase boundaries: beginning syllables are systematically stronger, while ending syllables are systematically weaker than the medial syllables. The M tone is the strongest and the H tone is the weakest, though the differences are modest. We see comparable amounts of carry-over and anticipatory co-articulation. The resulting model for SY shows similar characteristics when compared to Mandarin and Cantonese intonation models.
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Àjàdí, O. O. (2007). A Quantitative Model of Yorùbá Speech Intonation Using Stem-ML. INFOCOMP Journal of Computer Science, 6(3), 47–55. Retrieved from https://infocomp.dcc.ufla.br/index.php/infocomp/article/view/185
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