Accenting deaccenting and information structure in Italian dialogue

Proceedings of the 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 19-24

  Avesani, Cinzia ^a   Vayra, Mario ^b  

^a ISTC CNR (Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies)   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Information structure; Prosody

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION STRUCTURES; PROSODY;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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