?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=A+Timing+Model+for+Fast+French&rft.creator=Keller%2C+Eric&rft.creator=Zellner%2C+Brigitte&rft.subject=Computational+Linguistics&rft.description=Models+of+speech+timing+are+of+both+fundamental+and+applied+interest.+At+the+fundamental+level%2C+the+prediction+of+time+periods+occupied+by+syllables+and+segments+is+required+for+general+models+of+speech+prosody+and+segmental+structure.+At+the+applied+level%2C+complete+models+of+timing+are+an+essential+component+of+any+speech+synthesis+system.+%0APrevious+research+has+established+that+a+large+number+of+factors+influence+various+levels+of+speech+timing.+Statistical+analysis+and+modelling+can+identify+order+of+importance+and+mutual+influences+between+such+factors.+In+the+present+study%2C+a+three-tiered+model+was+created+by+a+modified+step-wise+statistical+procedure.+It+predicts+the+temporal+structure+of+French%2C+as+produced+by+a+single%2C+highly+fluent+speaker+at+a+fast+speech+rate+(100+phonologically+balanced+sentences%2C+hand-scored+in+the+acoustic+signal).+The+first+tier+models+segmental+influences+due+to+phoneme+type+and+contextual+interactions+between+phoneme+types.+The+second+tier+models+syllable-level+influences+of+lexical+vs.+grammatical+status+of+the+containing+word%2C+presence+of+schwa+and+the+position+within+the+word.+The+third+tier+models+utterance-final+lengthening.+%0AThe+complete+segmental-syllabic+model+correlated+with+the+original+corpus+of+1204+syllables+at+an+overall+r+%3D+0.846.+Residuals+were+normally+distributed.+An+examination+of+subsets+of+the+data+set+revealed+some+variation+in+the+closeness+of+fit+of+the+model.+%0AThe+results+are+considered+to+be+useful+for+an+initial+timing+model%2C+particularly+in+a+speech+synthesis+context.+However%2C+further+research+is+required+to+extend+the+model+to+other+speech+rates+and+to+examine+inter-speaker+variability+in+greater+detail.+&rft.publisher=Department+of+Language+and+Linguistic+Science%2C+University+of+York+(UK)&rft.contributor=Local%2C+J&rft.contributor=Warner%2C+AR&rft.date=1996&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F885%2F3%2FKellerZellnerTimingModel.pdf&rft.identifier=++Keller%2C+Eric+and+Zellner%2C+Brigitte++(1996)+A+Timing+Model+for+Fast+French.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F885%2F