Comparative study on suprasegmental characteristics among East and Southeast Asian languages

为了研究口语中的超音段，开发了两个软件工具。一种是基于不同语言标签（包括超切分标签）的多语言共现或上下文分析标注工具。另一个是合成语音的韵律控制工具，通过编辑音高轮廓和音素持续时间，并使用合成的speechs.Acoustic和语音的声调语言，如泰语和缅甸语的分析澄清，静态的音调模式不是固定独立的音节连接，和预期的调整或融合的特点，经常观察到在连接的话语。因此，在描述超音段时，贯穿整个话语的动态特征的观点显然是必不可少的。

Two software tools were developed for researches on suprasegmentals of spoken languages. One is the multi-language annotation tool for co-occurrence or context analysis based on different language tags including suprasegmental ones. The other is the prosodic control tool for synthesized speech by editing pitch contours and phoneme durations, and for auditory experiments using the synthesized speeches.Acoustic and phonetic analyses of tone languages such as Thai and Burmese clarify that static tone patterns are not fixed independently on syllable concatenations, and anticipatory adjustments or fused characteristics are often observed in connected utterances. The viewpoints of dynamic characteristics throughout the utterance are, therefore, clearly essential in the description of suprasegmentals.