Modelos de entonación analítico y fonético-fonológico aplicados a una base de datos del español de Buenos Aires
Abstract
We evaluate here the application of two intonational models –quantitative and phonetic- to the analysis of an Argentine Spanish database of 741 broad-focus declarative sentences. The analytic model is the superpositional model proposed by Fujisaki (2003) for several languages. The phonetic model is the result of the application of a labelling method (Gurlekian et al., 2001b) that incorporates psycho-acoustic measurements and a detailed description of the shape of the accent. Parameters generated by this labelling method were used to synthesize the intonational contours, which were then evaluated in a perception test. Results indicate the validity of Fujisaki´s model for describing a large database of Spanish broad-focus declaratives, and, thus, suggest the importance of Fujisaki’s model for speech technology applications. The extended ToBI model (ToBI-A) is validated by the correlation coefficient and RMSE values as well as the results of the perception test. Ten native speakers of the variety under study judged the synthesized sentences as highly natural with only minor differences with the original contour. These results indicate that the ToBI-A (i) is adequate for a linguistically-meaningful description of the intonation of a new variety; (ii) can be adequately used for modelling intonation.
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