Communication and prosody: Functional aspects of prosody

Speech Communication

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 31-43

  Hirschberg, Julia ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Intonational meaning; Prosody; Spoken dialogue systems

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

HUMAN COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0036027583     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(01)00024-3     Document Type: Article

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