A Predictive Approach to the Analysis of Intonation in Discourse
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This paper presents an approach to the analysis of prosody in French discourse, based on a prediction of the unmarked default intonation matching the lexical and syntactic properties of the sequence. By confronting this default intonation with the actual intonation used by the speaker, all marked intonation elements can be identified. The prediction of default intonation takes into account word stress, syllable count, syntactic dependency relations, and syntactic construction. In the process, criteria are proposed for the definition of discourse units based on both syntactic and prosodic formal criteria.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006