Transcribing Tone - A likelihood-based quantitative evaluation of Chao's tone letters
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The accuracy of the widely used and International Phonetic Association-sanctioned Chao five-point scale of tonal transcription is examined quantitatively. Perceptually transformed acoustic data are used from two Chinese dialects with complex tone systems, and a measure derived of the conformability of the data using their likelihoods. It is shown that some tones conform well to the model, but others do not, with tonal pitch targets lying equidistant between the Chao integers. It is concluded...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Rose, Philip | |
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dc.coverage.spatial | Singapore | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-10T22:53:42Z | |
dc.date.created | September 14-18 2014 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 1990-9770 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/59457 | |
dc.description.abstract | The accuracy of the widely used and International Phonetic Association-sanctioned Chao five-point scale of tonal transcription is examined quantitatively. Perceptually transformed acoustic data are used from two Chinese dialects with complex tone systems, and a measure derived of the conformability of the data using their likelihoods. It is shown that some tones conform well to the model, but others do not, with tonal pitch targets lying equidistant between the Chao integers. It is concluded that the Chao model is probably not an accurate reflection of the distribution of tonal pitch targets. | |
dc.publisher | International Speech Communication Association | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association INTERSPEECH 2014 | |
dc.source | Interpeech 2014 | |
dc.source.uri | http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2014 | |
dc.source.uri | http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=home.html | |
dc.title | Transcribing Tone - A likelihood-based quantitative evaluation of Chao's tone letters | |
dc.type | Conference paper | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 200400 - LINGUISTICS | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u4455832xPUB491 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Rose, Philip, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 101 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 105 | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-10T07:36:12Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-84910086149 | |
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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