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Recognition of Chinese word tone from F0, with and without amplitude and speaker information

J. H. Leather

Many of the problems of Intonation recognition are encountered also (and perhaps in more tractable form) in the domain of lexical tone - the syllable-level prosodic patterning which in many languages distinguishes between words with identical segmental structures. For 'tone' languages - which may even be in a majority (ref 7, 9) - tone recognition is necessary for lexical disambiguation. Moreover, when tone interacts with intonation (ref 5), factoring out one may be a prerequisite for the extraction of the other. In this paper, procedures are described for the recognition of tone in citation-form monosyllables of Mandarin, i.e. Modern Standard Chinese (MSC).