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Prosodic boundaries play an important role in intelligibility and naturalness of speech. It is an interesting topic to find a quantitative measurement of their importance. Previous studies have quantitatively measured the importance of prosodic boundaries based on functional loads (FLs). However, early study of estimating the information contribution of prosodic boundaries was under the hypothesis...
Phonetic contrasts (PC) are the basis of human speech communication. Different PCs have different levels of importance, which can be evaluated by the measurement of Functional Load (FL). It has also been understood that human speech perception is dependent not only on PCs but also on high-level context such as word, word sequence, grammar and etc. Thus it is desirable to take into account those context...
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