Pitch-accent languages

The Fujisaki model is most commonly used with Japanese, but has been used or adapted to many other languages. In Japanese, we find that the range of pitch accent phenomena is narrower than in languages such as English, which means that the model s single type of accent is particularly suited. In addition, the nature of intonation in Japanese means that accents are marked in the lexicon, which greatly simplifies the problem of prominence prediction. Hence a simple approach to this, which uses accent information from the lexicon alone, is often sufficient. A common approach therefore is to determine phrase breaks and prominent syllables from the text, and then phrase by phrase and syllable by syllable generate the input command parameters for the Fujisaki... 

Marsi, E., Busser, B., Daelemans, W., Hoste, V., Reynaert, M., and Bosch, A. V. D. Combining information sources for memory-based pitch accent placement. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing 2002 (2002). 

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