Prosodic correlates of contrastive and non-contrastive themes in German

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 789-792

  Braun, Bettina ^a   Ladd, D Robert ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

FORWARD LOOKING; INFORMATION STRUCTURES; PITCH ACCENTS; PROSODIC FEATURES; SEMANTIC THEORIES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84902991375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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