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Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion (g2p) is a core component of any text-to-speech system. This book discusses how adding simple syllabification and stress assignment constraints, namely 'one nucleus per syllable' and 'one main stress per word', to a joint n-gram model for g2p conversion leads to a dramatic improvement in conversion accuracy. The model is evaluated on German, English and French, and compares well to state-of-the-art approaches. Secondly, the benefit to be gained from morphological preprocessing for g2p conversion is assessed. While morphological information has been incorporated in some past systems, its contribution has never been quantitatively assessed for German. We compare the relevance of morphological preprocessing with respect to the morphological segmentation method, training set size, the g2p conversion algorithm, and two languages, English and German. This work is particularly valuabel for professionals working with speech syntesis systems..
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In the speech production model proposed by [Levelt, W. J. M., Roelofs, A., Meyer, A. S. (1999). A theory of lexical access in speech production. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, pp. 1-75.], syllables play a crucial role at the interface of phonological and phonetic encoding. At this interface, abstract phonological syllables are translated into phonetic syllables. It is assumed that this translation process is mediated by a so-called Mental Syllabary. Rather than constructing the motor programs for each syllable on-line, the mental syllabary is hypothesized to provide pre-compiled gestural scores for the articulators. In order to find evidence for such a repository, we investigated syllable-frequency effects: If the mental syllabary consists of retrievable representations corresponding to syllables, then the retrieval process should be sensitive to frequency differences. In a series of experiments using a symbol-position association learning task, we tested whether high-frequency syllables are retrieved and produced faster compared to low-frequency syllables. We found significant syllable frequency effects with monosyllabic pseudo-words and disyllabic pseudo-words in which the first syllable bore the frequency manipulation; no effect was found when the frequency manipulation was on the second syllable. The implications of these results for the theory of word form encoding at the interface of phonological and phonetic encoding; especially with respect to the access mechanisms to the mental syllabary in the speech production model by (Levelt et al.) are discussed. cal access in speech production. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, pp. 1-75.] are discussed. iences, 22, pp. 1-75.] are discussed. .
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Linguists claim that the syllable plays a fundamental role in the production and perception of spoken language One of the main arguments for the inclusion of the syllable in phonological theory is that syllable-based analyses shed light on the interrelatedness of phonological of phenomena in multiples domains. This study tests this claim in series of experiments with native speakers of Standard Italian in three domains: (i) intuition of consonant cluster syllabification, (ii) definite article allomorphy (il vs. lo) and (iii) segment duration (open syllable vowel lengthening and raddoppiamento-sintattico). One of the main findings is that variability in claimed syllabification in one domain (e.g. allomorphy), does not correspond to variability in the others (e.g. string division, duration). The segment duration experiments found that the maintenance of contrastive length has far reaching effects on the duration of both consonants and vowels in Italian, but no evidence for open-syllable vowel lengthening or syllable-induced raddoppiamento was found. This study shows that the standard syllable-based analyses of consonant cluster divisions, definite article allomorphy and segment duration are not supported by the experimental evidence. Instead, the conditioning factors for these central processes in Italian phonology are segmental, contrast-based conditions..
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Title: Extreme syllabification.
Author: Rex Gooch
Publication:Word Ways (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2003
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 36 Issue: 4 Page: 318(1)

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