A PROFILE OF THE DISCOURSE AND INTONATIONAL STRUCTURES OF ROUTE DESCRIPTIONS

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 1659-1662

  Williams, Sandra ^a   Watson, Catherine I ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

discourse; intonation; prosody; route descriptions

Indexed keywords

DISCOURSE; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; INTONATION; INTONATIONAL PHRASE; LINEAR SEQUENCE; PROSODY; ROUTE DESCRIPTIONS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 12844280943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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