FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY CHANGE IN TWO-SYLLABLE WORDS WITH LONG RISING ACCENT
FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY CHANGE IN TWO-SYLLABLE WORDS WITH LONG RISING ACCENT

Summary/Abstract: Fundamental frequency change in two-syllable words with long rising accent is investigated in this paper. Experimental results show that long rising accent is realized in similar way by all speakers. Fundamental frequency in stressed vowel rises during the whole vowel till the end, where it has peak, or near the end, where after peak it has slight fall. Beginning f0 value in unstressed vowel is close to ending value of preceding syllable. Peach starts with peak, or rises very little in the beginning, before reaches the peak, and then falls till the end of the vowel. According to average results for four male speakers proposition for f0 change which should be included in speech synthesis programme is given.

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