A Computational Grammar of Discourse-Neutral Prosodic Phrasing in English
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چکیده
We describe an experimental text-to-speech system that uses information about syntactic constituency, adjacency to a verb, and constituent length to determine prosodic phrasing for synthetic speech. A central goal of our work has been to characterize "discourse neutral" phrasing, i.e. sentence-level phrasing patterns that are independent of discourse semantics. Our account builds on Bachenko et al. (1986), but differs in its treatment of clausal structure and predicate-argument relations. Results so far indicate that the current system performs well when measured against a corpus of judgments of prosodic phrasing.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Computational Linguistics
دوره 16 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1990