TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Sappok, Christopher
A1  - Arnold, Denis
ED  - Ma, Qiuwu
ED  - Ding, Hongwei
ED  - Hirst, Daniel
T1  - On the normalization of syllable prominence ratings
T2  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Shanghai, May 22-25, 2012, Volume I
N2  - The instructions under which raters quantify syllable prominence perception need to be simple in order to maintain immediate reactions. This leads to noise in the rating data that can be dealt with by normalization, e.g. setting central tendency = 0 and dispersion = 1 (as in Z-score normalization). Questions arise such as: Which parameter is adequate here to capture central tendency? Which reference distribution should the normalization be based on? In this paper 16 different normalization methods are evaluated. In a perception experiment using German read speech (prose and poetry), syllable prominence ratings were collected. From the rating data 16 complete “mirror” data-sets were computed according to the 16 methods. Each mirror data-set was correlated with the same set of measures from the underlying acoustic data, focusing on raw syllable duration which is seen as a rather straightforward acoustic aspect of syllable prominence. Correlation coefficients could be raised considerably by selected methods.
KW  - syllable prominence
KW  - syllable duration
KW  - perception experiment
KW  - normalization
KW  - read speech
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-59638
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-59638
UR  - https://www.isca-speech.org/archive_v0/sp2012/papers/sp12_171.pdf
SN  - 978-7-5608-4869-3
SB  - 978-7-5608-4869-3
SP  - 314
EP  - 317
PB  - Tongji University Press
CY  - Shanghai
ER  -