Correct accentuation and phrasing improves the quality of synthetic speech. This paper discusses an algorithm which assigns both sentence accents and phrase boundaries on the basis of the prosodic sentence structure. Although this latter structure is theoretically derived from the syntactic structure, the present algorithm deterrnines the prosodic structure by means of (linguistically and stati...

It has been claimed that the declarative sentence type in Seoul Korean mostly has a falling terminal pitch/F0 contour. Further, it has been claimed that imperative and propositive sentence types also have a falling terminal pitch/F0 contour, thus when declarative has the same morphosyntactic structure with imperative and propositive sentence types, the three sentence types can be distinguished ...