Prosody and Discourse Structure: Issues and Experiments
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In this report we summarize the approach of examining structural relations between prosody and discourse semantics by means of experimental phonetics.1 We sketch the computational basis of the project, its methodological setting, and we present the results of three experiments on: • the role of local prominence in disambiguation of focal adverbs • the role of relative prominence in anaphora resolution • the role of global prominence [register features] in discourse structure.
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تاریخ انتشار 1997