by Choy Chi Yan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-115). / Text in English; abstract also in Chinese. / by Choy Chi Yan. / ABSTRACT --- p.I / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --- p.III / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.IV / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.VII / LIST OF TABLES --- p.VIII / Chapter 1. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Speech Recognition --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Development of Speech Recognisers --- p.4 / Chapter 1.3 --- Speech Recognition for Chinese Language --- p.5 / Chapter 1.4 --- Objectives of the thesis --- p.6 / Chapter 1.5 --- Thesis Structure --- p.7 / Chapter 2. --- PHONOLOGICAL AND ACOUSTICAL PROPERTIES OF MANDARIN CHINESE --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1 --- Characteristics of Mandarin Chinese --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Syllabic Structures --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Lexical Tones --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2 --- Basic Phonetic Units for Mandarin Chinese --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Tonal Syllables and Base Syllables --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Initial-Finals --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Phones --- p.16 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Preme-Core-Finals and Preme-Tonemes --- p.17 / Chapter 2.2.5 --- Summary-The phonological hierarchy of Mandarin Syllables --- p.19 / Chapter 3. --- HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS --- p.20 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.20 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Speech Data --- p.20 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Fundamental of HMMs --- p.21 / Chapter 3.2 --- Using Hidden Markov Models for Speech Recognition --- p.22 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Likelihood of the state sequence of speech observations --- p.22 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- The Recognition Problem --- p.24 / Chapter 3.3 --- Output Probability Distributions --- p.25 / Chapter 3.4 --- Model Training --- p.26 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- State Sequence Estimation --- p.26 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Gaussian Mixture Models --- p.29 / Chapter 3.4.3 --- Parameter Estimation --- p.30 / Chapter 3.5 --- Speech Recognition and Viterbi Decoding --- p.31 / Chapter 3.6 --- Summary --- p.32 / Chapter 4. --- LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION FOR MANDARIN CHINESE --- p.33 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.33 / Chapter 4.2 --- Large Vocabulary Mandarin Chinese Recognition System --- p.34 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Overall Architecture for the Speech Recogniser --- p.34 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Signal Representation and Features --- p.36 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Subword Unit Models Based on HMMs --- p.39 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- Training of Subword Units --- p.42 / Chapter 4.2.5 --- Language Model (LM) --- p.43 / Chapter 4.2.6 --- "Transcriptions, Word Networks and Dictionaries for LVCSR System" --- p.44 / Chapter 4.2.7 --- Viterbi Decoding --- p.47 / Chapter 4.2.8 --- Performance Analysis --- p.48 / Chapter 4.3 --- Experiments --- p.48 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Tasks --- p.48 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Speech Database --- p.49 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Baseline Experimental Results --- p.51 / Chapter 4.4 --- Context Dependency in Speech --- p.52 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Introduction --- p.52 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Context Dependent Phonetic Models --- p.53 / Chapter 4.4.3 --- Word Boundaries and Word network for context-dependent HMMs --- p.54 / Chapter 4.4.4 --- Recognition Results Using Cross-Syllable Context-Dependent Units --- p.56 / Chapter 4.5 --- Tree-Based Clustering --- p.58 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- Introduction --- p.58 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- Decision Tree Based Clustering --- p.59 / Chapter 4.5.3 --- The Question Sets --- p.61 / Chapter 4.5.4 --- Convergence Condition --- p.61 / Chapter 4.4.5 --- The Final Results --- p.63 / Chapter 4.6 --- Conclusions --- p.65 / Chapter 5. --- APPLICATION1 ISOLATED WORD RECOGNITION FOR MANDARIN CHINESE --- p.67 / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.67 / Chapter 5.2 --- Isolated Word Recogniser --- p.68 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- System Description --- p.68 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Experimental Results --- p.70 / Chapter 5.3 --- Discussions and Conclusions --- p.71 / Chapter 6. --- APPLICATION2 SUBWORD UNITS FOR A MANDARIN KEYWORD SPOTTING SYSTEM --- p.74 / Chapter 6.1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.74 / Chapter 6.2 --- RECOGNITION SYSTEM DESCRIPTION --- p.75 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Overall Architecture and Recognition Network for the keyword Spotters --- p.75 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Signal Representation and Features --- p.76 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- Keyword Models --- p.76 / Chapter 6.2.4 --- Filler Models --- p.77 / Chapter 6.2.5 --- Language Modeling and Search --- p.78 / Chapter 6.3 --- EXPERIMENTS --- p.78 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Tasks --- p.78 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Speech Database --- p.79 / Chapter 6.3.3 --- Performance Measures --- p.80 / Chapter 6.3.4 --- Details of Different Word-spotters --- p.80 / Chapter 6.3.5 --- General Filler Models --- p.81 / Chapter 6.4 --- EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS --- p.83 / Chapter 6.5 --- CONCLUSIONS --- p.84 / Chapter 7. --- CONCLUSIONS --- p.87 / Chapter 7.1 --- Review of the Work --- p.87 / Chapter 7.1.1 --- Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition for Mandarin Chinese --- p.87 / Chapter 7.1.2 --- Isolated Word Recognition for a Stock Inquiry Application --- p.88 / Chapter 7.1.3 --- Keyword Spotting for Mandarin Chinese --- p.89 / Chapter 7.2 --- Suggestions for Further Work --- p.89 / Chapter 7.3 --- Conclusion --- p.91 / APPENDIX --- p.92 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.111

published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Speech and Hearing Sciences / Master / Master of Science in Audiology

published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Linguistics / Master / Master of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Computer Science and Information Systems / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Speech and Hearing Sciences / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Chinese Language and Literature / Master / Master of Arts

by Wai-Hoo Au Yeung. / Thesis submitted in 1997. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves i-v (3rd gp.)). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Acknowledgments / Abstract / Contents / Abbreviations & Tables / Chapter 1. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1. --- What is a parameter? / Chapter 1.2. --- Parameter resetting in SLA / Chapter 1.3. --- Parameter as feature checking / Chapter 1.4. --- Research goals and outline of the thesis / Chapter 2. --- PARAMETERIZATION IN CHINESE NOMINALS --- p.18 / Chapter 2.1. --- DP-analysis and its parameterization / Chapter 2.2. --- Evaluation of the four models of Chinese nominal structures / Chapter 2.3. --- Parameterization in Cantonese and Mandarin nominals / Chapter 2.4. --- The Lexical CL Parameter / Chapter 3. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.86 / Chapter 3.1. --- The subject / Chapter 3.2. --- Timing of recording / Chapter 3.3. --- What is recorded / Chapter 3.4. --- The corpus / Chapter 3.5. --- Criteria of counting utterances and point of acquisition / Chapter 4. --- THE ACQUISITION OF CANTONESE NOMINALS --- p.92 / Chapter 4.1. --- Overall development of Cantonese nominal structure / Chapter 4.2. --- Acquisition of Cantonese-specific CLP properties / Chapter 4.3. --- Comparison with native Cantonese children's data / Chapter 4.4. --- Acquisition by resetting the Lexical CL Parameter / Chapter 5. --- AN INFORMAL EXPERIMENT ON GENERIC di AND di-N PHRASES --- p.118 / Chapter 5.1. --- Design of the experiment / Chapter 5.2. --- Materials / Chapter 5.3. --- Procedures and results / Chapter 5.4. --- Comparison between Ching's and native children's results / Chapter 6. --- CONCLUSION --- p.134 / Chapter 6.1. --- Theoretical and acquisition findings / Chapter 6.2. --- Further evidence for parameter resetting / Chapter 6.3. --- Implications for future research / Chapter 6.4. --- Concluding remarks / References / Appendix A: 3 sample files of the corpus

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Harrison, Alissa May. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 184-194). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Intonation´ؤlexical tone transfer --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2 --- Unresolved issues of intonation-lexical tone transfer --- p.8 / Chapter 1.3 --- Objectives of this study --- p.10 / Chapter 1.4 --- Hypotheses of intonation-lexical tone transfer in L2 Mandarin --- p.12 / Chapter 1.5 --- Methodology and experimental results --- p.13 / Chapter 1.6 --- Major findings and conclusions --- p.15 / Chapter 1.7 --- Outline of the thesis --- p.16 / Chapter 2 --- "Background of Mandarin, English, and Japanese prosody" --- p.18 / Chapter 2.1 --- Prosodic phonology --- p.19 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Defining the components of prosody --- p.19 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Theoretical basis for intonation and lexical tone inter- action --- p.23 / Chapter 2.2 --- Mandarin prosody --- p.32 / Chapter 2.3 --- English prosody --- p.41 / Chapter 2.4 --- Japanese prosody --- p.49 / Chapter 2.5 --- Summary of prosodic similarities and differences --- p.54 / Chapter 3 --- Previous studies of intonation and lexical tone acquisition --- p.61 / Chapter 3.1 --- Second language acquisition --- p.62 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Interlanguage --- p.62 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Defining transfer --- p.63 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- Theories of L2 phonological acquisition --- p.66 / Chapter 3.2 --- Comparison of first and second language acquisition --- p.71 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Lexical tone --- p.71 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Intonation --- p.74 / Chapter 3.3 --- L1 intonation transfer in Mandarin L2 lexical tone acquisition --- p.77 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Initial hypotheses of intonation-lexical tone transfer --- p.77 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Experimental studies claiming intonation-lexical tone transfer --- p.85 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Unaddressed issues of previous studies --- p.91 / Chapter 4 --- Methodology of production and perception experiments --- p.94 / Chapter 4.1 --- Hypotheses --- p.94 / Chapter 4.2 --- Design --- p.97 / Chapter 4.3 --- Subjects --- p.101 / Chapter 4.4 --- Procedures --- p.102 / Chapter 4.5 --- Data transcription and statistical analysis --- p.105 / Chapter 5 --- Results of production and perception experiments --- p.108 / Chapter 5.1 --- Production experiment results --- p.108 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Effect of lexical tone category on pitch production --- p.109 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Effect of sentence type on pitch production --- p.119 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- Summary of tone production results --- p.126 / Chapter 5.2 --- Perception experiment results --- p.128 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Effect of lexical tone category on lexical tone identifi- cation --- p.128 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Effect of sentence type on lexical tone identification --- p.136 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Summary of tone perception results --- p.143 / Chapter 6 --- Discussion of experimental results and intonation-lexical tone transfer hypothesis --- p.146 / Chapter 6.1 --- Analysis of experimental results --- p.147 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Lack of postlexical tone transfer --- p.148 / Chapter 6.1.2 --- Postlexical tone prior to lexical tone acquisition --- p.156 / Chapter 6.1.3 --- Factors in lexical tone errors --- p.166 / Chapter 6.2 --- Limitations of methodological design --- p.170 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Size of experimental data sample --- p.170 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Proficiency levels and testing --- p.172 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- Method of elicitation --- p.173 / Chapter 7 --- Conclusions --- p.177 / Chapter 7.1 --- Summary --- p.177 / Chapter 7.2 --- Implications --- p.178 / Chapter 7.2.1 --- Prosodic phonology --- p.178 / Chapter 7.2.2 --- Second language acquisition --- p.180 / Chapter 7.3 --- Future Work --- p.181 / Chapter A --- Production Experiment Materials --- p.195 / Chapter A.l --- Wordlist --- p.195 / Chapter A.2 --- Sentences --- p.196 / Chapter B --- Perception Experiment Materials --- p.199 / Chapter B.l --- Wordlist --- p.199 / Chapter B.2 --- Sentences --- p.200 / Chapter C --- F0 contours of target word productions --- p.203

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1986. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.