15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15) Barcelona, Spain August 3-9, 2003

Some Questions and Answers on the Prosodic Correlates of Information Structure

Hannes Pirker, Friedrich Neubarth

OFAI, Austria

In this paper a study on the effects of varying information structure and syntactic structure on prosody is presented. For this purpose a corpus of German question-answer pairs was designed and established. The structure and encoding of this corpus is described and some analysis results are presented.

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Bibliographic reference.  Pirker, Hannes / Neubarth, Friedrich (2003): "Some questions and answers on the prosodic correlates of information structure", In ICPhS-15, 1807-1810.