Information packaging correlates of semantic information structure categories

Acoustic Correlates of Information Structure. Accessed Terms of Use Detailed Terms Acoustic Correlates of Information Structure

This paper reports three studies aimed at addressing three questions about the acoustic correlates of information structure in English: (1) do speakers mark information structure prosodically, and, to the extent they do, (2) what are the acoustic features associated with different aspects of information structure, and (3) how well can listeners retrieve this information from the signal? The inf...

Information Packaging Revisited

Prosodic Realization of Information Structure Categories in Standard Chinese

This paper investigates the prosodic realization of information structure categories in Standard Chinese. A number of proper names with different tonal combinations were elicited as a grammatical subject in five pragmatic contexts. Results show that both duration and F0 range of the tonal realizations were adjusted to signal the information structure categories (i.e. theme vs. rheme and backgro...

Leveraging Information Across Categories

Companies are collecting increasing amounts of information about their customers. This effort is based on the assumption that more information is better and that this information can be leveraged to predict customers’ behavior in a variety of situations and product categories. For example, information about a customer’s purchase behavior in one category can be helpful in predicting his potentia...

Japanese Information Packaging: an Overview