Cues to upcoming Swedish prosodic boundaries: Subjective judgment studies and acoustic correlates

Speech Communication

Volumn 46, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 326-333

  Carlson, Rolf ^a   Hirschberg, Julia ^b   Swerts, Marc ^c,d  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Prosodic boundaries; Prosody perception

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CORRELATION THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; REDUNDANCY; SEMANTICS;

LEXICO-GRAMMATICAL INFORMATION; PROSDIC BOUNDARIES; PROSODY PERCEPTION; SEMANTIC INFORMATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 21844445586     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.02.013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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