Prosody analysis on Tibetan Lhasa dialect news reading

Based on the experimental phonetics means, this paper has collected male/female each 20 passages of Tibetan Lhasa dialect news as subject, labeled them by Praat software and extracted labeling data saved into .xls files. With the prosody boundary perception, it has labeled for various levels of prosody units and the prosody units include sentence, prosody-phrase, prosody-word and syllable. After data extraction, it has done study on interrelationship, different levels' prosody units' duration, silence segmentations, etc between male and female news reading aspects.