Speech rate as a secondary prosodic characteristic of polarity questions in three languages

Speech Communication

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 87-99

  Van Heuven, Vincent J ^a   Van Zanten, Ellen ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clause type; Intonation; Prosodic boundary; Question; Speech rate; Statement

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

CLAUSE TYPE; INTONATION; PROSODIC BOUNDARY; QUESTION; SPEECH RATE; STATEMENT;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 24144466865     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.05.010     Document Type: Article

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