Accentuation of Adpositions and Particles in a Text-to-Speech System for Dutch

In this paper I propose an accent placement algorithm that locates accents on adpositions and particles for the use in a Dutch text-to-speech (TTS) system. The algorithm is intended to be a refinement of the rule that accents only content words, which is used in most TTS systems. Before the algorithm is set up, I discuss when adpositions and particles are accented in Dutch. For this empirical research, I made use of the Spoken Dutch Corpus (CGN) as empirical material. The combination of part-of-speech, syntactic as well as prosodic information for approximately 125,000 words in the CGN made it... Mehr ...