Based on several rhyme books and rhyme tables such as Lügu Ciqufu Xieyuntong(律古词曲赋叶韵统),this paper describes some phonetic characteristics of the Hui dialect in the late Ming dynasty:1)There were three kinds of dental initials,which came from Zhang group(章组),Zhuang group(庄组),Zhi group(知组)and Jing group(精组)of Middle Chinese.

Predicting chinese prosodic word based on transformation-based error-driven learning;

The accuracy of prosody structure prediction in text-to-speech(TTS) conversion systems is improved by a statistical model based on the probability frequency to detect the two-tier prosodic hierarchy,including prosodic words and prosodic phrases.

Taking advantage of the close correlation between the prosody framework and the modified tonal curve,this paper presents a Multi-Space Distribution Hidden Markov Model(MSD-HMM) built on the prosodic word for the tone evaluation.

Co-articulation at the boundary of prosodic words—Consideration on the naturalness of synthesized speech;

The minimal prosodic word is bimoraic in Manchu-Tungusic languages,as assumed in the present article.