Lu Chen, Final Project
LING 001, Professor Liberman

Novel by Dan Brown
Recording by Richard Poe
Graphs and Charts

Data Sampling

The following charts and graphs summarize the data collected.

* For certain bar graphs, associated data has been connected with a line.
This does not mean that the data is correlated across sets; it is merely done for clarity and comparison purposes.

1A
Percentage of samples by gender:


1B
Percentage of samples by character:


2
Example of abnormal spike.
The spike circled and labeled as #1 corresponds roughly to "...how sinful..." in the transcript.
Area #2 occurs when the Hassasin is saying "No surprise."


3A
Male and Female: Speech Rate Data


3B
Male and Female: Scatterplot of All Data Samples


3C
Male and Female: Pitch Data


4A
Characters: Speech Rate*
Measured in words per second.


4B
Characters: Pitch*
Measured in Hz.


5A
Categoric: Speech Rate*


5B
Categoric: Pitch Data*


6
Presence of "smooth pitch" (lack of pitch range) in Italian sample, compared to more pitch variation in an Englisih sample.




Fall 2007, University of Pennsylvania