@inproceedings{rognoni-etal-2020-urdu,
title = "{U}rdu Pitch Accents and Intonation Patterns in Spontaneous Conversational Speech",
author = "Rognoni, Luca and
Bishop, Judith and
Corris, Miriam and
Fernando, Jessica and
Smith, Rosanna",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2020",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.788",
pages = "6412--6416",
abstract = "An intonational inventory of Urdu for spontaneous conversational speech is determined based on the analysis of a hand-labelled data set of telephone conversations. An inventory of Urdu pitch accents and the basic Urdu intonation patterns observed in the data are summarised and presented using a simplified version of the Rhythm and Pitch (RaP) labelling system. The relation between pitch accents and parts of speech (PoS) is also explored. The data confirm the important role played by low pitch accents in Urdu spontaneous speech, in line with previous studies on Urdu/Hindi scripted speech. Typical pitch contours such as falling tone in statements and WH-questions, and rising tone for yes/no questions are also exhibited. Pitch accent distribution is quite free in Urdu, but the data indicate a stronger association of pitch accent with some PoS categories of content word (e.g. Nouns) when compared with function words and semantically lighter PoS categories (such as Light Verbs). Contrastive focus is realised by an L*+H accent with a relatively large pitch excursion for the +H tone, and longer duration of the stressed syllable. The data suggest that post-focus compression (PFC) is used in Urdu as a focus-marking strategy.",
language = "English",
ISBN = "979-10-95546-34-4",
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%T Urdu Pitch Accents and Intonation Patterns in Spontaneous Conversational Speech
%A Rognoni, Luca
%A Bishop, Judith
%A Corris, Miriam
%A Fernando, Jessica
%A Smith, Rosanna
%S Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2020
%8 may
%I European Language Resources Association
%C Marseille, France
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%F rognoni-etal-2020-urdu
%X An intonational inventory of Urdu for spontaneous conversational speech is determined based on the analysis of a hand-labelled data set of telephone conversations. An inventory of Urdu pitch accents and the basic Urdu intonation patterns observed in the data are summarised and presented using a simplified version of the Rhythm and Pitch (RaP) labelling system. The relation between pitch accents and parts of speech (PoS) is also explored. The data confirm the important role played by low pitch accents in Urdu spontaneous speech, in line with previous studies on Urdu/Hindi scripted speech. Typical pitch contours such as falling tone in statements and WH-questions, and rising tone for yes/no questions are also exhibited. Pitch accent distribution is quite free in Urdu, but the data indicate a stronger association of pitch accent with some PoS categories of content word (e.g. Nouns) when compared with function words and semantically lighter PoS categories (such as Light Verbs). Contrastive focus is realised by an L*+H accent with a relatively large pitch excursion for the +H tone, and longer duration of the stressed syllable. The data suggest that post-focus compression (PFC) is used in Urdu as a focus-marking strategy.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.788
%P 6412-6416
Markdown (Informal)
[Urdu Pitch Accents and Intonation Patterns in Spontaneous Conversational Speech](https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.788) (Rognoni et al., LREC 2020)
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