On the Normalization of Syllable Prominence Ratings

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The instructions under which raters quantify syllable prominence perception need to be simple in order to maintain immediate reactions. This leads to noise in the rating data that can be dealt with by normalization, e.g. setting central tendency = 0 and dispersion = 1 (as in Z-score normalization). Questions arise such as: Which parameter is adequate here to capture central tendency? Which reference distribution should the normalization be based on? In this paper 16 different normalization methods are evaluated. In a perception experiment using German read speech (prose and poetry), syllable prominence ratings were collected. From the rating data 16 complete “mirror” data-sets were computed according to the 16 methods. Each mirror data-set was correlated with the same set of measures from the underlying acoustic data, focusing on raw syllable duration which is seen as a rather straightforward acoustic aspect of syllable prominence. Correlation coefficients could be raised considerably by selected methods.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2012
HerausgeberQiuwu Ma, Hongwei Ding, Daniel Hirst
Anzahl der Seiten4
Band1
VerlagTongji University Press
Erscheinungsdatum2012
Seiten314-317
ISBN (elektronisch)978-7-5608-4869-3
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 2012
Extern publiziertJa
Veranstaltung6th International Conference: Speech Prosody - ISCA Speech 2012: Prosody in the real world: Understanding and approaching human prosodic performance - Shanghai, China
Dauer: 22.05.201225.05.2012
Konferenznummer: 6
http://www.isle.illinois.edu/sprosig/sp2012/

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