TY - GEN
T1 - Investigating the Syntactic Characteristics of English Tone Units
AU - Fang, Alex Chengyu
AU - House, Jill
AU - Huckvale, Mark
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PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - This paper describes an investigation into the correspondence between grammatical units and English tone units. Our first aim is to provide some statistics based on scripted read speech since past studies mainly dealt with spontaneous speech. The second aim is to investigate whether the clause structure is a reliable indication of the tone unit. We start with a description of the annotation of transcribed speech data selected from the Spoken English Corpus (SEC), which is tagged for detailed wordclass information with AUTASYS and then parsed for rich syntactic description with the Survey Parser. Prosodic annotations in SEC, including both major and minor tone unit boundaries, were then mapped onto the parse trees. We then present our observations of tone units in the light of the clause structure. The paper will demonstrate that there is an overall correspondence between the clause structure and the tone unit in the sense that tone units generally co-start with the clause and that they seldom occur at major clause element junctures.
AB - This paper describes an investigation into the correspondence between grammatical units and English tone units. Our first aim is to provide some statistics based on scripted read speech since past studies mainly dealt with spontaneous speech. The second aim is to investigate whether the clause structure is a reliable indication of the tone unit. We start with a description of the annotation of transcribed speech data selected from the Spoken English Corpus (SEC), which is tagged for detailed wordclass information with AUTASYS and then parsed for rich syntactic description with the Survey Parser. Prosodic annotations in SEC, including both major and minor tone unit boundaries, were then mapped onto the parse trees. We then present our observations of tone units in the light of the clause structure. The paper will demonstrate that there is an overall correspondence between the clause structure and the tone unit in the sense that tone units generally co-start with the clause and that they seldom occur at major clause element junctures.
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U2 - 10.21437/icslp.1998-26
DO - 10.21437/icslp.1998-26
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
T3 - 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998
BT - 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998
PB - International Speech Communication Association
T2 - 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998
Y2 - 30 November 1998 through 4 December 1998
ER -