Comparative Prosody Modelling across Language

About

Our GRF project "Comparative Prosody Modelling across Languages" seeks to promote computational modeling of fundamental frequency (F0) as a tool for (i) theory comparison and (ii) hypothesis testing and analysis for field linguists. And we hope to transfer this knowledge to field linguists analyzing the prosody of their target languages.

Funding Source: General Research Fund (GRF)

Status	Effective start/end date
Active	2022 Jan 01 - 2024 Dec 31

	Persona	Organisation
PI	Dr Lee, Kwing Lok Albert	The Education University of Hong Kong
Co-I	Dr Simard, Candide	University of the South Pacific
Co-I	Dr Tamata, Apolonia	University of the South Pacific
Co-I	Xu, Yi	University of Virginia
Co-I	Prom-on, Santitham	King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi

Resources

Demonstration Video (Coming soon)

Functional Annotation Programme - Label Editor (Coming soon)

Please email the PI (albertlee.eduhk.hk) for a beta version.

PENTAtrainer Manual

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PENTAtrainer Praat Script

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Publications

Conferences

Event	Year	Location	Citation
ICPhS	2023	Prague	Lee, A., Simard, C. B., Tamata, A., Sun, J., & Mut, T. C. (2023). Focus prosody in Fijian: A pilot study. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023) (pp. 3311–3315). Guarant International. Mut, T. C., Simard, C. B., Tamata, A., & Lee, A. (2023). Focus prosody in Fijian: In-situ focus marking. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023) (pp. 1678–1680). Guarant International.
TAI	2023	Singapore	Lee, A., Simard, C. B., Tamata, A., Xu, Y., Prom-on, S., & Sun, J. (2023). Modelling Fijian focus prosody using PENTAtrainer: A pilot study. In Y. Lu & Y. Chen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2023) (pp. 9–10). COLIPS.
HISPhonCog	2023	Seoul	Mut, T. C., Simard, C., Tamata, A., & Lee, A. (2023). Focus Prosody in Fijian: a Pilot Study. In Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2023. (pp. 180-181).

Journal Articles

(In progress) Lee, A., Simard, C., Tamata, A., Xu, Y., Prom-on, S., & Mut, T. C. (2024). Fijian Focus Prosody: Acoustic Analysis and Analysis-by-Synthesis.

Workshop

Introduction to Intonation Modelling Using PENTAtrainer

This open workshop targets linguists (including field linguists) who are interested in intonation and analysis-by-synthesis. The Workshop starts with an overview of the Parallel Encoding and Target Approximation Model (Xu, 2005 [Speech Comm]), followed by a hands-on tutorial using speech data in Cantonese. By the end of this Workshop, participants will be able to use PENTAtrainer (i) for analysis-by-synthesis and (ii) to re-synthesise F0 contours for speech perception tasks.

Date: May 16, 2023
Speaker: Dr. Albert Lee