Comparative Analysis of Majority Language Influence on North Sámi Prosody Using WaveNet-Based modeling
The Finnmark North Sámi is a variety of North Sámi language, an indigenous, endangered minority language spoken in the northernmost parts of Norway and Finland. The speakers of this language are bilingual, and regularly speak the majority language (Finnish or Norwegian) as well as their own North Sá...
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ftdatacite:10.25384/sage.c.5254327 2023-05-15T16:13:34+02:00 Comparative Analysis of Majority Language Influence on North Sámi Prosody Using WaveNet-Based modeling Hiovain, Katri Suni, Antti Kakouros, Sofoklis Šimko, Juraj 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.5254327 https://sage.figshare.com/collections/Comparative_Analysis_of_Majority_Language_Influence_on_North_S_mi_Prosody_Using_WaveNet-Based_modeling/5254327 unknown SAGE Journals https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0023830920983591 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified FOS Media and communications Education 200399 Language Studies not elsewhere classified FOS Languages and literature Sociology FOS Sociology Collection article 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.5254327 https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830920983591 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z The Finnmark North Sámi is a variety of North Sámi language, an indigenous, endangered minority language spoken in the northernmost parts of Norway and Finland. The speakers of this language are bilingual, and regularly speak the majority language (Finnish or Norwegian) as well as their own North Sámi variety. In this paper we investigate possible influences of these majority languages on prosodic characteristics of Finnmark North Sámi, and associate them with prosodic patterns prevalent in the majority languages. We present a novel methodology that: (a) automatically finds the portions of speech (words) where the prosodic differences based on majority languages are most robustly manifested; and (b) analyzes the nature of these differences in terms of intonational patterns. For the first step, we trained convolutional WaveNet speech synthesis models on North Sámi speech material, modified to contain purely prosodic information, and used conditioning embeddings to find words with the greatest differences between the varieties. The subsequent exploratory analysis suggests that the differences in intonational patterns between the two Finnmark North Sámi varieties are not manifested uniformly across word types (based on part-of-speech category). Instead, we argue that the differences reflect phrase-level prosodic characteristics of the majority languages. Article in Journal/Newspaper Finnmark North Sámi Sámi Finnmark DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Norway |
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The Finnmark North Sámi is a variety of North Sámi language, an indigenous, endangered minority language spoken in the northernmost parts of Norway and Finland. The speakers of this language are bilingual, and regularly speak the majority language (Finnish or Norwegian) as well as their own North Sámi variety. In this paper we investigate possible influences of these majority languages on prosodic characteristics of Finnmark North Sámi, and associate them with prosodic patterns prevalent in the majority languages. We present a novel methodology that: (a) automatically finds the portions of speech (words) where the prosodic differences based on majority languages are most robustly manifested; and (b) analyzes the nature of these differences in terms of intonational patterns. For the first step, we trained convolutional WaveNet speech synthesis models on North Sámi speech material, modified to contain purely prosodic information, and used conditioning embeddings to find words with the greatest differences between the varieties. The subsequent exploratory analysis suggests that the differences in intonational patterns between the two Finnmark North Sámi varieties are not manifested uniformly across word types (based on part-of-speech category). Instead, we argue that the differences reflect phrase-level prosodic characteristics of the majority languages. |
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Hiovain, Katri Suni, Antti Kakouros, Sofoklis Šimko, Juraj |
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Comparative Analysis of Majority Language Influence on North Sámi Prosody Using WaveNet-Based modeling |
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Comparative Analysis of Majority Language Influence on North Sámi Prosody Using WaveNet-Based modeling |
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Comparative Analysis of Majority Language Influence on North Sámi Prosody Using WaveNet-Based modeling |
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Comparative Analysis of Majority Language Influence on North Sámi Prosody Using WaveNet-Based modeling |
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Comparative Analysis of Majority Language Influence on North Sámi Prosody Using WaveNet-Based modeling |
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comparative analysis of majority language influence on north sámi prosody using wavenet-based modeling |
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https://dx.doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.5254327 https://sage.figshare.com/collections/Comparative_Analysis_of_Majority_Language_Influence_on_North_S_mi_Prosody_Using_WaveNet-Based_modeling/5254327 |
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