Representing Speech Rhythm
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چکیده
The issue of representing speech rhythm is understood in this paper as the search for relevant primary parameters that will allow the formalisation of speech rhythm. Current speech synthesisers show that phonological models are not satisfactory with respect to the modelling of speech rhythmicity. Our analysis indicates that this may be in part related to the formalisation of rhythmic representation. Based on the observation of other communicative systems facing the problem of representing rhythm, parameters are described for representing speech rhythmic structures.
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