Dr Albert Lee Receives the General Research Fund to Promote Prosody Modelling in Language Documentation

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Dr Albert Lee has received funding from the General Research Council for his new project titled “Comparative prosody modelling across languages”. This proposal was developed with the support of EdUHK’s start-up grant. 

Bringing together experts in phonetics, computer science, and language documentation from Fiji (Candide Simard, USP), Hong Kong (Dr Albert Lee as PI), the United Kingdom (Professor Yi Xu, University College London), and Thailand (Dr Santitham Prom-on, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, this project seeks to promote computation modelling of intonation both as a tool for (i) prosody research; and (ii) language documentation. The main objectives of the project are to: (i) promote computational modelling as a tool for theory testing and comparison; (ii) further improve the accuracy of the leading intonation synthesiser (PENTAtrainer); (iii) to provide first-hand acoustic data on Fijian prosody; and (iv) to promote analysis-by-synthesis as a handy tool for field linguists. To achieve the last objective, a beginner-friendly user manual and a video tutorial, complete with mini-software tools that facilitate annotation, will be made available to users.  

This GRF project will commence in early 2022.