A Comparison of Normalisation Strategies for Citation Tone F0 in Four Chinese Dialects
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Seven common normalization strategies are compared for unstopped citation tone F0 in the Chinese dialects of Shanghai, Cantonese, Fúzhōu and Zhāngzhōu. A z-score normalization is shown to give clearly superior clustering as quantified by normalization index, but no indication of superiority for a prior log transform of F0 is found.
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تاریخ انتشار 2016