Automatically extracted F 0 features as acoustic correlates of prosodic boundaries

This work presents preliminary results of an investigation of various automatically extracted F0 features as acoustic correlates of prosodic boundaries. The F0 features were primarily intended to capture phenomena such as boundary tones, F0 resets across boundaries and position in the speaker’s F0 range. While there were no correspondences between boundary tones and boundaries, the reset and range features appeared to separate boundaries from no boundaries fairly well.