Turn-taking in mandarin dialogue: Interactions of tone and intonation

SIGHAN@IJCNLP 2005 - 4th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 72-78

  Levow, Gina Anne ^a  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION TASKS; FLUENTS; LEXICAL TONES; MANDARIN CHINESE; MULTI-MODAL; PROSODICS; RELATIVE HEIGHTS; TONE LANGUAGES; TURN-TAKING; WORD MEANING;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 84892564819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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