Price P J, Ostendorf M, Shattuck-Hufnagel S, Fong C
SRI International, Menlo Park, California 94025.
J Acoust Soc Am. 1991 Dec;90(6):2956-70. doi: 10.1121/1.401770.
Prosodic structure and syntactic structure are not identical; neither are they unrelated. Knowing when and how the two correspond could yield better quality speech synthesis, could aid in the disambiguation of competing syntactic hypotheses in speech understanding, and could lead to a more comprehensive view of human speech processing. In a set of experiments involving 35 pairs of phonetically similar sentences representing seven types of structural contrasts, the perceptual evidence shows that some, but not all, of the pairs can be disambiguated on the basis of prosodic differences. The phonological evidence relates the disambiguation primarily to boundary phenomena, although prominences sometimes play a role. Finally, phonetic analyses describing the attributes of these phonological markers indicate the importance of both absolute and relative measures.
韵律结构和句法结构并不相同，但也并非毫无关联。了解二者何时以及如何对应，能够产生质量更高的语音合成效果，有助于在语音理解中消除相互竞争的句法假设的歧义，还能让人对人类语音处理有更全面的认识。在一组实验中，涉及35对语音相似的句子，代表七种结构对比类型，感知证据表明，部分（而非全部）句子对能够基于韵律差异来消除歧义。音系学证据表明，消除歧义主要与边界现象有关，尽管重音有时也起作用。最后，描述这些音系标记属性的语音分析表明了绝对测量和相对测量的重要性。
