RESEARCH ON GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE

Abstract

A technique for prosodic analysis was developed that flattens the power spectrum without changing the instantaneous power and optionally reintroduces harmonics of the fundamental frequency. When the channel for average fundamental voice frequency was eliminated, correct listener responses to stress on English words decreased only slightly, but listener responses to intonation approached the chance level. A generative format was developed for expressing the structure of the syntax of a spoken language (French). An ordered set of rewrite rules used with a set of tables generated all existing verb forms and no nonexisting ones. An attempt to describe the syntax of English determiner phrases led to a reconsideration of the place of semantics in syntactic descriptions and the properties required of a syntactic description. Problems of grammatic description were examined with reference to two examples of chess notations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0637566

Entities

People

  • June E. Shoup

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acoustic Waves
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Computer Programs
  • Frequency
  • Grammars
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Machine Translation
  • Morphology (Linguistics)
  • Natural Languages
  • Numbers
  • Power Spectra
  • Scientific Research
  • Sequences
  • Speech

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  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.