Acoustic features of Greek rhythmic structure

Acoustic structure of fricative consonants in Greek

The present study examines the temporal and spectral characteristics of Greek fricatives (duration and spectral moments, i.e. mean, variance, skewness, kurtosis) as distinctive cues for their place of articulation. The effects of voicing, speaker’s gender and post-fricative vowel on both duration and spectral moments are also investigated. The results indicate that noise duration does not disti...

Acoustic and Perceptual Correlates of Vietnamese Folk Poetry Rhythmic Structure

This paper reports a study on the acoustic realization and the perception of the rhythmic structure of Vietnamese folk poetry. Ten speakers of Sài Gòn dialect recite four folk poems that were made up of three-word, five-word, six-word, seven-word, and eightword lines. The acoustic analysis showed that the duration and intensity results mirror each other in indicating a strong iambic pattern of ...

Acoustic Features for Music Piece Structure Analysis

Automatic analysis of the structure of a music piece aims to recover its sectional form: segmentation to musical parts, such as chorus or verse, and detecting repeated occurrences. A music signal is here described with features that are assumed to deliver information about its structure: mel-frequency cepstral coefficients, chroma, and rhythmogram. The features can be focused on different time ...

Acoustic model of stress in standard Greek and Greek dialects

The paper compares acoustic models which predict the position of stress in bisyllabic words in Greek varieties. It is shown that while in Thessalian Greek ratios of peak amplitude and F1 are the best predictors of stress, in Athenian and Cypriot Greek these are ratios of durations and f0. Furthermore in Cypriot Greek morphological category of the token affects the acoustic prominence of the str...

The acoustic model of the Greek theatre