[Corpora-List] Corpus methods for prosodic analysis

[Marcin Miłkowski]

W dniu 2014-04-16 08:35, Matías Guzmán Naranjo pisze:
> Dear all,
>
> I found a strong correlation between what seems are sentence boundaries
> (in this case marked as punctuation marks), and a particular
> morphological alternation. Now I want to actually check for prosodic
> patterns in an oral corpus and see whether the correlation is actually
> there or if it's just because of idiosyncrasies of how the transcriber
> annotated the corpus.
>
> My question is this, are there any techniques for doing this
> automatically? Something like say, manually splitting the audio files in
> the relevant text units, but automatically doing an F0 analysis, or
> something similar. Also, is there any previous research that does this?

Wouldn't simply a search for the particular alternation and a sentence 
boundary in another written corpus be enough to confirm this? You would 
have a different annotator. Just asking -- the correlation may be owing 
to the fact that this is a likely utterance ending.

Of course, the sentence ending in a written corpus may or may not 
correlate with prosody at the utterance ending. But this is another 
correlation, of sentence boundary annotation and prosody, not of 
morphological alternation and sentence boundary annotation, right? It 
may be evidence that the annotator was correct or not, but I'm not sure 
if that's what you're interested in.

HTH,
Marcin

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