//******************************************************************* // TONES //******************************************************************* //******************************************************************* // REFERENCE MATERIALS //******************************************************************* // Collaborative Documentation and Revitalization of Cherokee Tone // https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/24630/herrick.pdf // Tones fall within a range of 80–140 H (pg 21, footnote) // the mid tone (2) starts at 104 Hz (P1) and falls approximately 2 Hz at of the next four points ending at 96 Hz at P5. // // Building Tone Resources for Second Language Learners from Phonetic Documentation // https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/24737/hirata-edds_herrick.pdf // // Pitch contours taken from Praat chart, pg 295 // // (¹) low fall: 106, 102, 97, 92, 88 // (²) low/mid: 104, 100, 98, 97, 96 // (³) high: 108, 109, 110, 111, 112 // (⁴) super high: 109, 113, 118, 122, 127 // (²³) rising: 97, 98, 101, 104, 109 // (³²) falling: 122, 120, 115, 106, 97 // A REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF OKLAHOMA CHEROKEE (2008) // Short vowels preceding /h/ are devoiced, pg 45 (how to do this espeak-ng?) // Word final vowels are nasalized // Vowels are nasalized after a nasal consonant // Vowels are either long or short; a long vowel takes // approximately twice as long to pronounce as its // short counterpart., pg 46 //int pitch1 = 0; //int pitch2 = 0; //int pitch_env = 0; //int amp_env = 0; //IF (pitch1 >= pitch2) the pitch values get swapped (???) phoneme 1 // low fall (¹) stress ipa ˨˩ //Tone(106, 88, envelope/p_fall, NULL) Tone(106, 85, envelope/p_fall, NULL) //need a pitch contour of 106-88 for a endphoneme phoneme 2 // low (²) stress ipa ˨ //Tone(104, 96, envelope/p_fall, NULL) //DF voice based Tone(105, 93, envelope/p_fall, NULL) //need a pitch contour of 104-96 for a endphoneme phoneme 3 // high (³) stress ipa ˧ //Tone(108, 112, envelope/p_rise, NULL) Tone(109, 116, envelope/p_rise, NULL) //need a pitch contour of 108-112 for a endphoneme phoneme 4 // extra high rise (⁴) stress ipa ˧˦ Tone(112, 134, envelope/p_rise, NULL) //need a pitch contour of 109-127 for a endphoneme phoneme 23 // rising (²³) stress ipa ˨˧ Tone(96, 111, envelope/p_rise, NULL) //need a pitch contour of 97-109 for a endphoneme phoneme 32 // falling (³²) stress ipa ˧˨ Tone(128, 96, envelope/p_fall, NULL) //need a pitch contour of 122-97 for a endphoneme phoneme 43 // extra high fall (⁴³) - end of word tone stress ipa ˦˧ //need a pitch contour of 122-75 for a~ //but can't seem to get espeak-ng to generate it when analysed via praat Tone(127, 71, envelope/p_fall, NULL) //length 150 endphoneme //******************************************************************* // LANGUAGE SPECIFIC CONSONANTS (PLOSIVES/STOPS) //******************************************************************* //none. //******************************************************************* // LANGUAGE SPECIFIC VOWELS //******************************************************************* //from phonemes phoneme : // lengthen previous vowel by "length" virtual length 175 endphoneme // ạ, a //from ph_en phoneme A: vwl length 175 FMT(vowel/aa_2) endphoneme // ạ, a, end of word vowel //from ph_english phoneme A~ vwl length 175 FMT(vnasal/aa_n2) endphoneme // e, ẹ //from ph_base2 phoneme E vwl length 175 FMT(vowel/ee_1) endphoneme // e, ẹ, final word vowel //from ph_konkani phoneme E~ vwl length 175 FMT(vnasal/ee_n2) endphoneme // i, ị //from ph_en phoneme I vwl length 175 FMT(vowel/ii_2) endphoneme // i, ị, final word vowel //from ph_konkani phoneme I~ vwl length 175 FMT(vnasal/ii_n) endphoneme // o, ọ //from ph_base2 phoneme o vwl length 175 FMT(vowel/o) endphoneme // o, ọ, final word vowel phoneme o~ vwl length 175 FMT(vnasal/o_n) endphoneme // u, ụ //from ph_base2 phoneme u vwl length 175 FMT(vowel/u_bck) endphoneme // u, ụ, final word vowel phoneme u~ vwl length 175 FMT(vnasal/u_n) endphoneme //ṿ, v //from ph_french phoneme W~ vwl length 175 FMT(vnasal/W_n) endphoneme // fix specific consonents to last long enough to be heard phoneme l import_phoneme base2/l length 150 endphoneme phoneme m import_phoneme base2/m length 400 endphoneme phoneme n import_phoneme base2/n length 200 endphoneme phoneme w import_phoneme base2/w length 100 endphoneme