Dialect Identification of Spoken North Sámi Language Varieties Using Prosodic Features
This work explores the application of various supervised classification approaches using prosodic information for the identification of spoken North Sámi language varieties. Dialects are language varieties that enclose characteristics specific for a given region or community. These characteristics r...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.2003.10183 2023-05-15T17:40:07+02:00 Dialect Identification of Spoken North Sámi Language Varieties Using Prosodic Features Kakouros, Sofoklis Hiovain, Katri Vainio, Martti Šimko, Juraj 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2003.10183 https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10183 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2020-128 arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Audio and Speech Processing eess.AS FOS Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2003.10183 https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2020-128 2022-03-10T15:55:43Z This work explores the application of various supervised classification approaches using prosodic information for the identification of spoken North Sámi language varieties. Dialects are language varieties that enclose characteristics specific for a given region or community. These characteristics reflect segmental and suprasegmental (prosodic) differences but also high-level properties such as lexical and morphosyntactic. One aspect that is of particular interest and that has not been studied extensively is how the differences in prosody may underpin the potential differences among different dialects. To address this, this work focuses on investigating the standard acoustic prosodic features of energy, fundamental frequency, spectral tilt, duration, and their combinations, using sequential and context-independent supervised classification methods, and evaluated separately over two different units in speech: words and syllables. The primary aim of this work is to gain a better understanding on the role of prosody in identifying among the different language varieties. Our results show that prosodic information holds an important role in distinguishing between the five areal varieties of North Sámi where the inclusion of contextual information for all acoustic prosodic features is critical for the identification of dialects for words and syllables. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Sámi Sámi DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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This work explores the application of various supervised classification approaches using prosodic information for the identification of spoken North Sámi language varieties. Dialects are language varieties that enclose characteristics specific for a given region or community. These characteristics reflect segmental and suprasegmental (prosodic) differences but also high-level properties such as lexical and morphosyntactic. One aspect that is of particular interest and that has not been studied extensively is how the differences in prosody may underpin the potential differences among different dialects. To address this, this work focuses on investigating the standard acoustic prosodic features of energy, fundamental frequency, spectral tilt, duration, and their combinations, using sequential and context-independent supervised classification methods, and evaluated separately over two different units in speech: words and syllables. The primary aim of this work is to gain a better understanding on the role of prosody in identifying among the different language varieties. Our results show that prosodic information holds an important role in distinguishing between the five areal varieties of North Sámi where the inclusion of contextual information for all acoustic prosodic features is critical for the identification of dialects for words and syllables. |
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Kakouros, Sofoklis Hiovain, Katri Vainio, Martti Šimko, Juraj |
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Dialect Identification of Spoken North Sámi Language Varieties Using Prosodic Features |
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Dialect Identification of Spoken North Sámi Language Varieties Using Prosodic Features |
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Dialect Identification of Spoken North Sámi Language Varieties Using Prosodic Features |
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Dialect Identification of Spoken North Sámi Language Varieties Using Prosodic Features |
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Dialect Identification of Spoken North Sámi Language Varieties Using Prosodic Features |
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dialect identification of spoken north sámi language varieties using prosodic features |
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2020 |
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https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2003.10183 https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10183 |
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North Sámi Sámi |
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North Sámi Sámi |
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