FROM TRADITIONAL CHINESE PHONOLOGY TO MODERN SPEECH PROCESSING —— REALIZATION OF TONE AND INTONATION IN STANDARD CHINESE ——

摘要: To understand deeply the variations of tone and intonation in Spoken Chinese has long been a target study. The methods description classification tones intonations traditional phonology have proved useful for designing synthesis systems Chinese. Some examples realization Standard are given this paper. treatment problem. Due to diachronic synchronic Sino-linguistic rules, “tone sandhis” words phrase “change-keys” sentential interact with each other under phonological and/or grammatical frames as well coarticulatory attitudinal rules. They form large number surface forms, resulting tonal contours quite different from their underlying forms. Therefore, analysis should at first be conducted by filtering out original phrasal contours. Besides acoustic experiments on segmental features (SC), I done series following above-mentioned concept since 80s 20th century, what’s more, h ave some during past few years. It is interesting that found word-books, fragments prosodic descriptions ancient literature, numerous literary compositions, rhymed verses poems, which dealing half century ago, can referred guide design processing “Traditional Phonology” suggested here includes Middle Phonology (since 4th century), general Phonetics late 19th century). Before 1920s, all speech sounds had investigated only “mouth ears”, scholars were unable tell truth production field scientifically. But solid knowledge was obtained entirely mother tongues, surprisingly, categorized classified compared favorably distinctive modern phonology.