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1 Cue-based analysis of speech: Implications for prosodic transcription Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel Speech Communication Group Research Laboratory of Electronics MIT
2 A stark view: Some unanswered questions What are the contrastive categories of spoken prosody? How does their phonetic implementation vary systematically with context? How do they relate to meaning and to interaction?
3 Prosodic parallels to a feature-cue-based approach to speech processing? 1) Segmental phonology: growing evidence that language users systematically control: individual acoustic cues to contrastive phonemic segments contextually appropriate parameter values of these cues 2) Models: representation and processing of surface phonetic information at this level of detail feature-cue-based processing (Halle, Stevens) 3) Parallels in prosodic phonology? if so, what are the implications for prosodic transcription?
4 Instruction giver s map Instruction follower s map
5 Reduction of surface word forms It s probably the same thing.
6 probably the
7 Strengthening/clarification of surface word forms Are you going to have to do that all over again? ProbabLY.
8 Extremes of variation in word forms
9 Surface phonetic segments often not appropriate for transcription Cues not aligned in time Cues to a feature can be distributed over time nasality in V preceding a nasal coda C in I can go duration of V preceding a voiceless coda C in I can t go Cues to features of two segments can overlap in time /n + dh/ of win those interdental nasal Cues selected individually Individual cues to features survive deletion of segment Duration of V preceding a deleted voiced coda C in cat Individual cues to features are sometimes added Glottalized word-final /t/ sometimes also has closure and release burst
10 Feature-cue-based transcription provides a better fit Stevens 2002 (extending Halle 1972): Two types of features, two types of cues Landmarks: abrupt spectral changes as cues to articulator-free features Consonant, Vowel, Glide, Continuant, Sonorant, Strident Landmark-related cues: spectral patterns near Landmarks, as cues to articulator-bound features Labial, Coronal, Velar, Voiced, Nasal etc. Additional acoustic events
11 Landmark cues Rapid spectral changes across several energy bands which provide information about articulator-free features Boyce et al. 2013
12 Landmark labelling captures individual cue patterns
13 Advantages of Landmark Cues in Speech Perception Reliably produced 80% of predicted LMs in AEMT Corpus (Shattuck- Hufnagel & Veilleux 2007) Robustly detectable ( auditory edges ) Highly informative Articulator-free features (~manner) provide estimate of CV structure of the utterance Identification of regions rich in cues to other features (place, voicing) Inter-Landmark times provide estimate of durational markers of prosodic structure
14 Extension to Production A sketch of an extrinsic timing model Stage 1: a phonological planning stage symbolic segmental representations are sequenced and slotted into an appropriate prosodic structure appropriate acoustic cues are selected for each segment s features in its context Stage 2: a phonetic planning stage cues are mapped onto sets of articulators appropriate values for spatial and temporal parameters of movement are computed Stage 3: a motor-sensory implementation stage articulator movements are generated and tracked. Turk and Shattuck-Hufnagel 2014
15 Extension to Production A sketch of an extrinsic timing model Stage 1: a phonological planning stage symbolic segmental representations are sequenced and slotted into an appropriate prosodic structure appropriate acoustic cues are selected for each segment s features in its context Stage 2: a phonetic planning stage cues are mapped onto sets of articulators appropriate values for spatial and temporal parameters of movement are computed Stage 3: a motor-sensory implementation stage articulator movements are generated and tracked. Turk and Shattuck-Hufnagel 2014
16 Evidence for a Feature-Cue-Based production planning model Evidence that speakers can choose among individual cues Feature cues left behind in phonetic reduction New cues in challenging speaking circumstances Inventory constraints on LM modification Evidence that speakers compute cue parameter values Conversational convergence: partial, governed by social values Covert contrast in development Inventory constraints on final lengthening
17 Evidence for a Feature-Cue-Based production planning model Evidence that speakers can choose among individual cues Feature cues left behind in phonetic reduction New cues in challenging speaking circumstances Inventory constraints on LM modification Evidence that speakers compute cue parameter values Conversational convergence: partial, governed by social values Covert contrast in development Inventory constraints on final lengthening
18 Conversational convergence/divergence Neilson 2011
19 Evidence for a Feature-Cue-Based production planning model Evidence that speakers can choose among individual cues Feature cues left behind in phonetic reduction New cues in challenging speaking circumstances Inventory constraints on LM modification Evidence that speakers compute cue parameter values Conversational convergence: partial, governed by social values Covert contrast in development Inventory constraints on final lengthening
20 Covert contrast in child speech Scobbie 1998; see also Gibbon 1990
21 Covert contrast for stop voicing Macken & Barton 1980 JCL
22 Characteristics of the FCBP approach More complex planning by the speaker Not choose a surface allophone But instead, choose context-appropriate feature cues and cue parameter values Extensive interpretation by the listener Which linguistic constituents and structures does the signal contain cues for? What information about the interaction and the situation does the signal contain cues for?
23 Parallels in Prosodic Processing? Individual variation in cue patterns Irregular pitch periods at prosodic boundaries and prominences (Pierrehumbert & Talkin 1992, Dilley et al. 1996) New cues in challenging speaking situations Dysarthric speakers use duration instead of F0 to signal question vs statement (Patel 2003) Whispered speech in Mandarin shows amplitude variation analogous to F0 shape for tones (Gao 2003) Interpretation of ambiguous cues in context Early prominence patterns influence interpretation of ambiguous later prominence (Dilley & Shattuck-Hufnagel 1998) Early speaking rate influences interpretation of ambiguous cues to function words (Dilley & Pitt 2008)
24 Parallels in Prosodic Processing? Individual variation in cue patterns Irregular pitch periods at prosodic boundaries and prominences (Pierrehumbert & Talkin 1992, Dilley et al. 1996) New cues in challenging speaking situations Dysarthric speakers use duration instead of F0 to signal question vs statement (Patel 2003) Whispered speech in Mandarin shows amplitude variation analogous to F0 shape for tones (Gao 2003) Interpretation of cues in context Early prominence patterns influence interpretation of ambiguous later prominence (Dilley & Shattuck-Hufnagel 1998) Early speaking rate influences interpretation of ambiguous cues to function words (Dilley & Pittt 1998)
25 Patel 2003 New cues in challenging speaking situations: Dysarthric Speech
26 New cues in challenging speaking situations: Whispered Speech Gao 1999
27 New cues in challenging speaking situations: Whispered Speech Gao 1999
28 New Cues in challenging speaking situations: Whispered Speech Gao 2003
29 Implications for Prosodic Transcription? Determine the contrastive categories Determine the range of appropriate cues and cue parameter values for each category, across contexts Determine the relationship of the categories (and cue parameter values) to meaning and to interaction
30 Implications for Prosodic Transcription? Determine the contrastive categories Determine the range of appropriate cues and cue parameter values for each category, across contexts Determine the relationship of the categories (and cue parameter values) to meaning and to interaction Can cue-based transcription move us toward these goals?
31 Some useful steps Consider prosodic elements in terms of distributed cues to contrastive elements and parameter values for those cues Rather than as a sequence of surface elements Develop displays of parameters as compelling as F0 contours Duration and amplitude as % of typical Autodetection of irregular pitch periods Create inventories of contrastive use of prosodic phrasing and prominence across languages Investigate phonological equivalence in prosody
32 Phonological equivalence
33 Which differences distinguish contrasts?
34 Some unanswered (but answerable) questions What are the contrastive categories of spoken prosody? How does the phonetic implementation of these categories vary systematically with context? How do these categories relate to meaning and to interaction?
35
36 Evidence for a Feature-Cue-Based production planning model Evidence that speakers can choose among individual cues Feature cues left behind in phonetic reduction New cues in challenging speaking circumstances Inventory constraints on LM modification Evidence that speakers compute cue parameter values Covert contrast in development Conversational convergence: partial, governed by social values Inventory constraints on final lengthening Recall evidence from prosodic hierarchy: ipp s, VOT
37 Evidence for a Feature-Cue-Based production planning model Evidence that speakers can choose among individual cues Feature cues left behind in phonetic reduction New cues in challenging speaking circumstances Inventory constraints on LM modification Evidence that speakers compute cue parameter values Covert contrast in development Conversational convergence: partial, governed by social values Inventory constraints on final lengthening Recall evidence from prosodic hierarchy: ipp s, VOT
38 Speakers can select among cues: cues left behind in reductions even if whole strings of segments are no longer delimitable in reduced forms compared with fuller pronunciations of the same lexical items, there will still be articulatory prosodies, superimposed upon the remaining sound material, which retain essential components of the fuller forms, the phonetic essence that characterizes the whole form class of a word. The extreme reduction [ai~~i] of the German modal particle eigentlich, 'actually', is a case in point. The length, palatality and nasality of its gliding movement reflect the polysyllabicity, the central nasal consonant and the final palatal syllable of the fuller forms. It is assumed that this phonetic essence triggers lexical identification in the listener. Niebuhr & Kohler 2011
39 Speakers can select among cues Speakers constrain LM modification to maintain contrasts in their language (Lavoie 2002)
40 Lavoie 2002
41 Lavoie 2002
42 Speakers can compute context-appropriate cue values Recall examples from cues to prosodic structure: Duration adjustments of rhyme for boundaries, prominences (many languages) Duration adjustments of stop VOT for initial boundaries (Korean)
43 Neilson 2011 Speakers can compute context-appropriate cue values Conversational convergence/divergence
44 Speakers can compute context-appropriate cue values Inventory-sensitive constraints on degree of final lengthening: Nakai et al. (2009) have also shown that a quantity language like Finnish exhibits final lengthening, but its implementation is regulated to preserve the language-specific quantity system, namely the contrast between single or short vowels and double or long vowels. This important empirical finding raises the question whether final lengthening, and perhaps also other prosodic cues, is a universal cue to phrasing that is implemented in language-particular ways. If so, cue variation may be the result of the conspiracy of specific phonologies against universal tendencies in language, and experimental approaches are decisive to disentangle the two factors. (Frota 2012)
45 A sketch of an extrinsic timing model of speech production Stage 1) a phonological planning stage symbolic segmental representations are sequenced and slotted into an appropriate prosodic structure appropriate acoustic cues are selected for each segment s features in its context Stage 2) a phonetic planning stage cues are mapped onto sets of articulators appropriate values for spatial and temporal parameters of movement are computed Stage 3) a motor-sensory implementation stage articulator movements are generated and tracked. Turk & Shattuck-Hufnagel, Sp Prosody 2014
46 Outline Past 30 years have seen two contrasting developments in speech prosody: the emergence of grammatical theories of prosodic structure, and deep disagreements about how prosodic structure should be annotated/what matters about prosody/the role of prosodic phonology. In this talk I will review what seems to me to be a parallel pair of contrasting views about segmental phonology, one of which focuses on range of variation in word forms across contexts, and the other on the systematic nature of this variation in relation to abstract linguistic categories. This approach seems to me to provide a framework for uniting the largely statistical and probabilistic view of phonetics with the more traditional view of phonology based on abstract contrastive categories, to the benefit of both.
47 Collaborators Segmental phonology and phonetics: Cue-based approaches Ken Stevens, Morris Halle, Jay Keyser, Haruko Kawasaki, Helen Hanson The role of prosodic structure in utterance planning Pat Keating, Alice Turk Cues to prosodic structure Jon Barnes, Alejna Brugos, Nanette Veilleux Jennifer Cole
48 Both segmental and prosodic phonetics signal several different types of information Linguistic constituents and structures Situation-specific information the language/dialect the frequency/predictability of the words the speaker (attitude, emotion, physiology) the speaking situation the relationship between the speakers
49 The plan for this talk Evidence that segmental phonetics has many of the same problems as prosodic phonetics How a model based on cues to contrastive categories, and their parameter values, addresses some of these problems for both segmental phonetics How this might work for prosodic phonetics Evidence for a phonetics model based on cues and their parameter values Implications of this Cue-Based-Processing approach for prosodic transcription
50 Segmental phonetics has many of the same problems as prosodic phonetics Often, expected cues aren t there Reduction in segmental phonology Ambiguity
51 Cue-based processing solves problems
52 Evidence for Cue Based Processing Speakers typically leave cues behind in reduction Speakers use new cues in challenging situations Developing child speakers use cues differently Listeners are sensitive to cue parameter values even if they can t accurately report them Listeners can parse cues and parameter values into their sources appropriately Listeners can reproduce cue parameter values in their conversational or imitative behavior Listeners tune their perception to cue parameter values of individual speakers
53 Speakers typically leave cues behind
54 Speakers use new cues
55 Developing child speakers use cues differently
56 Listeners are sensitive to cue parameter values
57 Implications of Cue-Based-Processing for Prosodic Transcription
58 After three decades of literature focusing on prosodic structure, the view that prosodic structure has a role to play as the organizing framework of speech is well established. This structure consists of the grouping of chunks of speech into prosodic constituents arranged according to a hierarchy, delimited by prosodic boundaries or edges and with prominences or heads at the various levels. Prominence strength and boundary strength reflect the hierarchy. Prosodic domains are marked by constellations of cues, which stand as the major empirical evidence for prosodic structure and the constituents it comprises. These cues have been shown to be used in lexical processing, in the disambiguation of syntax, or in the identification of morpho-syntactic units (as in bootstrapping).
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60 An alternative title for this talk Why I sleep better at night these days, and how you can too
61 Summary What questions do we need to address? What counts as an answer to the question what is the prosody of this utterance? An abstract specification of the linguistic constituents that make up the utterance and its structure? An exact specification of the quantifiable, measurable and prosodically-relevant aspects of the signal? A cue-based specification that links the abstract contrastive categories to their quantitative implementation?
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