ESCA Workshop on Prosody Lund, Sweden September 27-29, 1993

Multi-Lingual Modelling of Intonation Patterns

Daniel Hirst (1), Albert Di Cristo (1), Martine Le Besnerais (2), Zohra Najim (1), Pascale Nicolas (1), Pascal Romeas (1)

(1) Institut de Phonétique d'Aix, URA CNRS 261 Parole et Langage, University de Provence, Aix en Provence, France
(2) Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

An account is given of an ongoing research programme developping a general method of investigation applicable to the intonation systems of different languages. At present, four languages in particular are being studied. : French, English, Spanish and Arabic. Four levels of prosodic representation are distinguished : underlying phonological, surface phonological, phonetic and acoustic. Each level is required to be interpretable in terms of the immediately superior and inferior levels. Automatic and semi-automatic procedures are being developped for this task.

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Bibliographic reference.  Hirst, Daniel / Cristo, Albert Di / Besnerais, Martine Le / Najim, Zohra / Nicolas, Pascale / Romeas, Pascal (1993): "Multi-lingual modelling of intonation patterns", In Prosody-1993, 204-207.