Rhythm metrics of spontaneous speech and accent in Japanese and English

Yoichi Mukai, Benjamin V. Tucker

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Abstract

A study provided an experimental evaluation of rhythm metrics between read and spontaneous speech in Japanese and English. Spontaneous speech was collected from two existing data Sets. Forty-eight utterances were retrieved from three native speakers of Japanese, English, and six English-speaking Japanese subjects. All were manually labeled using Praat and segmented following Arvaniti. The resulting data were modeled, with linear mixed- effects regression using the LME4 package to investigate the relationship between the metrics and the language groups across the speech types.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)118-119
Number of pages2
JournalCanadian Acoustics - Acoustique Canadienne
Volume43
Issue number3
StatePublished - Sep 2015
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Acoustics and Ultrasonics

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