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On the normalization of syllable prominence ratings

  • 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.

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Author:Christopher Sappok, Denis ArnoldORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-59638
URL:https://www.isca-speech.org/archive_v0/sp2012/papers/sp12_171.pdf
ISBN:978-7-5608-4869-3
Parent Title (English):Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Shanghai, May 22-25, 2012, Volume I
Publisher:Tongji University Press
Place of publication:Shanghai
Editor:Qiuwu Ma, Hongwei Ding, Daniel Hirst
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2012
Date of Publication (online):2017/03/08
Publicationstate:Veröffentlichungsversion
Reviewstate:Peer-Review
Tag:normalization; perception experiment; read speech; syllable duration; syllable prominence
First Page:314
Last Page:317
DDC classes:400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik
Open Access?:ja
Linguistics-Classification:Phonetik / Phonologie
Licence (German):License LogoUrheberrechtlich geschützt