CONTEXTUAL FACTOR ANALYSIS OF VOWEL DISTRIBUTION

Tetsunori Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Matsuda, Kazuhiro Watanabe

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Abstract

A new categorical factor analysis method is proposed and it is applied to investigate the influence of phonemic context on the distribution of vowel spectra. Conventional categorical factor analysis methods, such as quantification theory, assume that the influence of multiple categories are expressed by the linear combination of that of single category. In our method, the theory is modified to deal with nonlinear factor. Using this method, the multiple correlation coefficients are improved by 3.6- 7.8% as compared with the conventional linear method and some nonlinear categorical factors which affect the vowel distribution became apparent.

Original languageEnglish
Pages2277-2280
Number of pages4
Publication statusPublished - 1989
Externally publishedYes
Event1st European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1989 - Paris, France
Duration: 1989 Sept 271989 Sept 29

Conference

Conference1st European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1989
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period89/9/2789/9/29

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Software
  • Linguistics and Language
  • Communication

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