Prosody and Discourse
The Prosody of Discourse Structure and Content in the Production of Persian EFL Learners
... speakers’ discourse data, we assumed three prosodic features to be systematically correlated with text characteristics, namely pause durations between the RST-defined segments, pitch range and articulation rate of ...
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The perception of intonation in native and non-native linguistic contexts and by different individuals: From question-answer categorization to the integration of prosody and discourse structure
... Plasticity, also, is not only studied focusing on Deaccentuation and on the position of focus elements, but also by observing whether the syntactic organization of a sentence is linked to the expression of different ...
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Prosody and the Resolution of Pronominal Anaphora
... Table 1 describes the attributes captured for each pronoun. These features were chosen for the annota- tion because many previous studies have shown them to be important for pronoun resolution. Features in- clude ...
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On the Semantic Prosody of Career Women in Chinese Web Reportage
... To prevent the negative consequences, first of all, we believe that web media themselves shall take up the responsibility of producing unbiased news to the audience. Wu and Wang point out that if employees in the media ...
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Clause type anticipation based on prosody in Mandarin
... Participants were seated in front of a computer screen at an approximate distance of 50 cm and were asked to read silently the instructions that appeared on their screen. Once they were ready, they clicked on the OK ...
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An Automatic Prosody Tagger for Spontaneous Speech
... Speech prosody is known to be central in advanced communication ...speech prosody, so far, no sufficiently large, well-annotated prosody material has been created to support empirical studies and ...
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On the role of context and prosody in the interpretation of ‘okay’
... uses of individual cue phrases can be distinguished by variation in the prosody with which they are re- alized. For example, (Hirschberg and Litman, 1993) found that cue phrases in general could be disam- biguated ...
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Gesture Theory is Linguistics: On Modelling Multimodality as Prosody
... in prosody over the past two decades, partly from the traditional linguistic perspective that the ‘music of speech’ is an important indicator of the structure of spoken utterances and of their status as speech ...
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Prosody and Particles: A Study of Interaction in a Malaysian Academic Meeting
... The particles under investigation are referred to in various ways including „discourse markers‟ (Schiffrin 1987), „discourse particles‟ (Aijmer & Simon-Vandenbergen 2003) or „interjections‟ (Enfield et ...
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Voice quality and f0 in prosody: towards a holistic account
... of prosody and of the un- derlying production and perceptual correlates of prosodic ele- ments such as pitch accent, declination, focus, phrase bounda- ries, ...and discourse-related information and (ii) in ...
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Prosody and Quantifier Float in Japanese
... To recapitulate, the contours observed in Figures 1 and 2 should be explained if we assume that if accentual phrasing in Japanese tends to reflect both the discourse context and the syntactic structure of an ...
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Thinking prosody : the effects of production difficulty on prosody
... thinking prosody and ...thinking prosody as a host of prosodic ...with discourse status. Whatever is new in the discourse is also usually more difficult to produce because it is less ...
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The Syntax Semantics Prosody Interface in Legislative Language
... with prosody to some ...and prosody as two separate generative systems: one is syntactic phrase marker and the other is prosodic structure, which, under mapping constraints, “forms the set of possible pairs ...
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Prosody, syntax, and pragmatics: insubordination in spoken Brazilian Portuguese
... Prosody is also responsible for conveying the functional values of the several information units which may form the utterance, conveying specific pragmatic and communicative functions combined into specific ...
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Design and Development of a Prosody Generator for Arabic TTS Systems
... It performs a full-text analysis to provide the necessary features to the duration and F0 contour prediction models. These features are extracted from different levels, i.e. the phoneme, the syllable and the phrase. ...
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Prosody/Parse Scoring and Its Application in ATIS
... PROSODY/PARSE SCORING AND ITS APPLICATION IN ATIS P R O S O D Y / P A R S E S C O R I N G A N D I T S A P P L I C A T I O N i N A T I S N M Veilleuz M Ostendorf Electrical, Computer and Systems Engine[.] ...
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Effective Use of Prosody in Parsing Conversational Speech
... they can be effectively incorporated into a statisti- cal parsing model, ignoring for now the problem of word errors. Evaluated on the Switchboard cor- pus of conversational telephone speech (Graff and Bird, 2000), our ...
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Improved Prosody Module in a Text-to-Speech System
... The prosody model developed in the previous chapter establishes the groundwork for the prosody module of our TTS system. However, since it merely aims at assuring the accuracy of F0 mean without putting ...
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COMPREHENSIBILITY AND PROSODY RATINGS FOR PRONUNCIATION SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
... Comprehensibility and nativeness ratings were collected from both experienced and naïve raters. In addition, the experienced listeners were asked to identify specific areas of difficulty in the utterances they heard. We ...
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Tense and Aspect in English and Kiluba: The Role of Suffixation and Prosody
... Tense and aspect have been one of the most intriguing language issues when comparison is made in different languages. The reason for this is that languages do not always share the same linguistic background. This is the ...
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