The prosody of fluent connected speech is much more complicated than concatenating
individual sentence intonations into strings. We analyzed speech corpora of read Mandarin …

Mandarin Chinese is the official standard language in China (where it is called
Putonghua,“common speech”), Taiwan (where it is called guoyu,“national language”), and …

This article reports, for the first time, type and token frequencies of tones, onsets, codas,
rimes, and syllables of Hong Kong Cantonese. The information is derived from a …

An adult language corpus of spoken Hong Kong Cantonese (HKCAC) has recently been
developed consisting of spontaneous speech recorded from phone-in programs and forums …

In the acquisition of second language (L2) or foreign language (FL) pronunciation, learners
not only learn how to pronounce consonants and vowels (tones as well, in the case of tone …

This paper presents a set of corpus-based text-to-speech synthesis technologies for
Mandarin Chinese. A large speech corpus produced by a single speaker is used, and the …

This dissertation explores the second language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese tones by
speakers of non-tonal languages within the framework of Optimality Theory. The effects of …

This paper addresses higher level organization in discourse prosody. Fluent speech
prosody of text reading illustrated higher level speech planning above phrases and prosody …

Recent investigations of prosody organization appeared to focus more on how best to
determine operating prosodic units and how these units are put together. However, the …

In the development of unlimited Mandarin Chinese TTS, two fundamental problems have
been the greatest barriers to progress and the most difficult to solve:(1.) how to predict …