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

Perceptual Evaluation of Rule-Generated Intonation Contours for German Interrogatives

Bernd Möbius

Institut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

This paper presents the results of a perceptual experiment that was carried out in order to evaluate naturalness and adequacy of artificial, rule-generated intonation contours for German interrogatives. In previously reported experiments, the ratings for artificial intonation patterns of declaratives were satisfactory while those for interrogatives were not. Therefore, the present study aimed at improving the rules for echo, yes/no, and wh-questions. The integration of several additional features contributed to a more adequate generation of German interrogative intonation contours.

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Bibliographic reference.  Möbius, Bernd (1993): "Perceptual evaluation of rule-generated intonation contours for German interrogatives", In Prosody-1993, 216-219.