Effect of genre, speaker, and word class on the realization of given and new information

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 557-560

  Gravano, Agustín ^a   Hirschberg, Julia ^a  

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

Author keywords

Accenting; Given new information; Information status; Prosody

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ACCENTING; GIVEN/NEW INFORMATION; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; INFORMATION STATUS; NEW FORMS; NOUNS AND VERBS; PROSODY;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 44949236456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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