This study aims to evaluate and compare the performance of automatic transcription systems for the ToBI (Tones and Breaks Indices) and ToDI (Transcription of Dutch Intonation) frameworks....Show moreThis study aims to evaluate and compare the performance of automatic transcription systems for the ToBI (Tones and Breaks Indices) and ToDI (Transcription of Dutch Intonation) frameworks. Specifically, the focus is on matching or surpassing the results achieved by previous systems using a relatively small data set for training. By employing recent advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP), this research demonstrates the potential to achieve comparable or superior performance in generating ToDI transcriptions of intonational phonology with limited labelled data available for boundary detection and boundary classification, while, for accent detection and accent classification, no results substantially better than the majority class baseline were obtained.Show less
This thesis will attempt to provide a short analysis of a test conducted among Dutch and RP speakers of English, a test that mainly considered the ways in which the word “yes” could be interpreted...Show moreThis thesis will attempt to provide a short analysis of a test conducted among Dutch and RP speakers of English, a test that mainly considered the ways in which the word “yes” could be interpreted by both groups of speakers. This study aimed to analyse the ways in which intonation is understood, and how this differs between English native speakers and Dutch speakers of English. Based on work and research by Hoorn, Mitrofanova, Hewings, So and Best, and Grabe, Rosner, Garcia-Albea and Zhou—from which one may gather that non-native speakers will find it both more problematic to distinguish between different intonation patterns as well as understand them see the following chapter for an elucidation on these theories—it was hypothesised that native speakers would have less difficulty with understanding intonation in general, and that Dutch speakers would have a more ambiguous understanding of certain types of intonation patterns.Show less
