PROSODIC CORRELATES OF INFORMATION STRUCTURE IN SWEDISH HUMAN-HUMAN DIALOGUES

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 29-32

  Home, Merle ^a   Hamson, Petra ^a   Bruce, Gösta ^a   Frid, Johan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

accentuation; dialogue; Given New; information structure; prosody; speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACCENTUATION; AGENT SYSTEMS; DIALOG; GIVEN-NEW; HUMAN DIALOGUES; INFORMATION STRUCTURES; PROSODICS; PROSODY; SWEDISHS; TRAVEL AGENTS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84964467930     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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