Mapping areal variation and majority language influence in North Sámi using hierarchical prosodic analysis
We present results of a statistical hierarchical analysis of areal variation in prosody of spoken North Sámi languages. The hierarchical analysis method compares unigram models using cross-entropy measure. The models depict distributions of delta-features of f0 and energy signals decomposed using Co...
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/249332 2024-01-07T09:45:23+01:00 Mapping areal variation and majority language influence in North Sámi using hierarchical prosodic analysis Hiovain, Katri Suni, Antti Santeri Simko, Juraj Vainio, Martti Tapani Klessa, Katarzyna Bachan, Jolanta Wagner, Agnieszka Karpiński, Maciej Śledziński , Daniel Phonetics Department of Digital Humanities Phonetics and Speech Synthesis 2018-10-12T07:52:01Z 5 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/249332 eng eng 10.21437/speechprosody.2018-117 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018 SProSIG Hiovain , K , Suni , A S , Simko , J & Vainio , M T 2018 , Mapping areal variation and majority language influence in North Sámi using hierarchical prosodic analysis . in K Klessa , J Bachan , A Wagner , M Karpiński & D Śledziński (eds) , Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018 . SProSIG , International Speech Communications Association , pp. 577-581 , International Conference on Speech Prosody , Poznan , Poland , 13/06/2018 . https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2018-117 conference ORCID: /0000-0003-2570-0196/work/49414709 85050210837 12afb7da-71a3-403a-a538-84fbd0b69a69 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/249332 unspecified openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 6121 Languages Conference contribution publishedVersion 2018 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:08:32Z We present results of a statistical hierarchical analysis of areal variation in prosody of spoken North Sámi languages. The hierarchical analysis method compares unigram models using cross-entropy measure. The models depict distributions of delta-features of f0 and energy signals decomposed using Continuous Wavelet Transform. These signals are obtained from speech recordings of five areal North Sámi varieties recorded in sites in northern Finland and Norway. We evaluate three potential sources of areal variation in prosodic characteristics of these five areal varieties: (1) traditional dialectal analysis of North Sámi, (2) influence of the relevant majority languages, and (3) geographical distance. Our results show a significant positive correlation between cross-entropy distances between models and geographical distances between recording sites, demonstrating a viability of the method for typological analysis. Prosodic characteristics of the areal varieties are also influenced by majority languages, and, to a smaller degree, by differences between the North Sámi dialectal varieties. Peer reviewed Conference Object North Sámi Northern Finland Sámi HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository Norway 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018 577 581 |
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We present results of a statistical hierarchical analysis of areal variation in prosody of spoken North Sámi languages. The hierarchical analysis method compares unigram models using cross-entropy measure. The models depict distributions of delta-features of f0 and energy signals decomposed using Continuous Wavelet Transform. These signals are obtained from speech recordings of five areal North Sámi varieties recorded in sites in northern Finland and Norway. We evaluate three potential sources of areal variation in prosodic characteristics of these five areal varieties: (1) traditional dialectal analysis of North Sámi, (2) influence of the relevant majority languages, and (3) geographical distance. Our results show a significant positive correlation between cross-entropy distances between models and geographical distances between recording sites, demonstrating a viability of the method for typological analysis. Prosodic characteristics of the areal varieties are also influenced by majority languages, and, to a smaller degree, by differences between the North Sámi dialectal varieties. Peer reviewed |
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Klessa, Katarzyna Bachan, Jolanta Wagner, Agnieszka Karpiński, Maciej Śledziński , Daniel Phonetics Department of Digital Humanities Phonetics and Speech Synthesis |
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Mapping areal variation and majority language influence in North Sámi using hierarchical prosodic analysis |
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Mapping areal variation and majority language influence in North Sámi using hierarchical prosodic analysis |
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Mapping areal variation and majority language influence in North Sámi using hierarchical prosodic analysis |
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