Speech Prosody 2008 Campinas, Brazil May 6-9, 2008

On modeling the Rhythm of Natural Languages

Pier Marco Bertinetto, Chiara Bertini

Laboratorio di Linguistica, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

We describe a new model for the formal representation of the rhythmic tendencies of natural languages. The algorithm is a modification of PVI, proposed by Grabe and Low. The model was tested on a fairly substantial corpus of Italian semispontaneous productions, and its outcome compared with that yielded by two well-known algorithms (Ramus and PVI).

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Bibliographic reference.  Bertinetto, Pier Marco / Bertini, Chiara (2008): "On modeling the rhythm of natural languages", In SP-2008, 427-430.