Obtaining prominence judgments from naı̈ve listeners
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In this paper we examine different approaches to obtain judgments of perceptual prominence. It discusses the use of different scales, the influence of the linguistic level on which the prominence is rated and the normalisation of prominence judgments. We propose the use of a multilevel scale to obtain prominence judgments. It seems that naı̈ve listeners can rate word prominence better than syllable prominence, resulting in better correlations to acoustics. It is shown that normalization should be applied to the obtained ratings.
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