Modeling the durational difference of stressed vs. unstressed syllables.

Number 1602
Year 2008
Drawer 28
Entry Date 06/08/2010
Authors Nam, H., Saltzman, E., Krivokapic, J., & Goldstein, L.
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Publication 8th Phonetic Conference of China.
url http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1602.pdf
Abstract Speech production exhibits temporal coherence among speech gestures, and also systematic modulation of durational patterns as a function of the hierarchical level of prosodic structure, e.g., the foot. Intergestural coherence has been understood with reference to dynamic coupling within an ensemble of planning oscillators, and a coupled oscillator model of inter-gestural timing has been employed to simulate relative timing patterns observed inter-gesturally within and between syllables. In this paper, we integrate temporal modulation gestures into the oscillator model and modulate coupling parameters to simulate the durational asymmetry between stressed and unstressed syllables.
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