The alternatives (Alt) tier for ToBI: Advantages of capturing prosodic ambiguity

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 273-276

  Brugos, Alejna ^a   Veilleux, Nanette ^b   Breen, Mara ^c   Shattuck Hufnagel, Stefanie ^d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIMMONS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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HAND-ANNOTATIONS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS;

RESEARCH;

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