2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Pause insertion and its effect in spontaneous speech and read speech
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23520468
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Toyama Prefectural University |
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Principal Investigator |
KAKITA Kuniko 富山県立大学, 工学部, 教授 (10148827)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | ポーズ / 調音調節 / 自発発話 / 読み上げ発話 |
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| Research Abstract |
The effect of pause insertion in spontaneous speech and read speech of five native speakers of Japanese was analyzed acoustically. Spontaneous speech was characterized by a larger number of intra-sentential pauses (three to four times the number in read speech) and shorter utterance chunks between pauses (about half the size in read speech). In spontaneous speech, fast speakers tended to use longer inter-sentential pauses, while slow speakers tended to use shorter inter-sentential pauses. The voice pitch tended to be more monotonous in spontaneous speech.
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