Investigating prosodic variation in British English varieties using ProPer

Hae-Sung Jeon; Stephen Nichols

doi:10.21437/Interspeech.2022-792

Investigating prosodic variation in British English varieties using ProPer

Hae-Sung Jeon, Stephen Nichols

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Abstract

This study used ProPer (PROsodic analysis with PERiodic energy), a tool for automatic prosodic analysis, to investigate prosodic variation in four British English varieties. The central question was how to efficiently describe systematic prosodic variation without extensive manual annotations. We analysed ProPer parameters, the magnitude of F0 change between two successive syllables, synchrony (i.e. the general trend of the F0 movement within a syllable), and periodic energy mass. We then carried out audiovisual analysis of the F0 movement. Our overall assessment is that ProPer allows holistic prosodic analysis, significantly reducing researchers' workload in prosodic annotations. The ProPer analysis is optimised for syllable-sized intervals. It requires the examination of a vast amount of acoustic information and possibly the careful design of experimental materials for collecting laboratory speech data.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Interspeech 2022
Editors	H. Ko, J. H. L. Hansen
Publisher	ISCA
Pages	1313-1317
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2022-792
Publication status	Published - 22 Sept 2022
Event	Interspeech 2022 - Incheon, Korea, Republic of Duration: 18 Sept 2022 → 22 Sept 2022 Conference number: 23 https://interspeech2022.org/

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Name	Interspeech - Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
ISSN (Electronic)	2308-457X

Conference

Conference	Interspeech 2022
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Incheon
Period	18/09/22 → 22/09/22
Internet address	https://interspeech2022.org/

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

intonation
prosody
speech production
English

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Jeon, H-S & Nichols, S 2022, Investigating prosodic variation in British English varieties using ProPer. in H Ko & JHL Hansen (eds), Proceedings of Interspeech 2022. Interspeech - Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA, pp. 1313-1317, Interspeech 2022, Incheon, Korea, Republic of, 18/09/22. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2022-792

Investigating prosodic variation in British English varieties using ProPer. / Jeon, Hae-Sung; Nichols, Stephen.
Proceedings of Interspeech 2022. ed. / H. Ko; J. H. L. Hansen. ISCA, 2022. p. 1313-1317 (Interspeech - Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association).

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