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Table 1 Notations of prosodic tags, prosodic-acoustic features and linguistic features

From: A parametric prosody coding approach for Mandarin speech using a hierarchical prosodic model

T: prosodic tags

B: break types

P: prosodic states

p: pitch prosodic states

q: duration prosodic states

r: energy prosodic states

A: prosodic-acoustic

Features

X: syllable prosodic-acoustic features

sp: syllable pitch contours

sd: syllable durations

se: syllable energy levels

Y: syllable-juncture prosodic-acoustic features

pd: pause durations

ed: energy-dip levels

Z: inter-syllable differential

prosodic-acoustic features

pj: normalized pitch-level jumps

dl: normalized duration lengthening factor 1

df: normalized duration lengthening factor 2

L: linguistic features

POS: part-of-speeches

PM: punctuation marks

WL: word lengths

t: tones

s: base-syllable types

f: final types