Abstract

Speech production is realized through a composition of segmental articulations in space and time by the articulatory system that includes jaw, lips, tongue and larynx. To support human communication, speech is suited with an organized prosodic structure which is encapsulated into the articulatory as well as the acoustic signal [1]. Articulatory correlates of prosodic structure have been increasingly studied in recent research work, eg, the effects of prosody structure or focal accent of syllables in a word [2, 3]. However, despite a growing body of work on identifying prosodic signatures at the articulatory and acoustic levels, literature on the coordinative spatiotemporal dynamics of articulation and acoustic of prosody remains relatively limited.
In this work, we analyze the relationships between articulatory and acoustic dynamics related to different prosodic characteristics reflected in content and function words. Specifically …

Date

2013

Authors

Zhaojun Yang, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Dani Dyrd, Shrikanth Narayanan

Journal

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

Volume

19

Issue

1

Publisher

AIP Publishing