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

Exploring the Prosody-Syntax Interface in Conversations

Mattias Heldner, Beata Megyesi

KTH, Sweden

The goal of this study is to investigate the structuring of speech in terms of prosodic boundaries in spontaneous dialogues in Swedish. In particular, the relation between boundaries as perceived by listeners, and their acoustic and linguistic realizations as uttered by speakers is examined.

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Bibliographic reference.  Heldner, Mattias / Megyesi, Beata (2003): "Exploring the prosody-syntax interface in conversations", In ICPhS-15, 2501-2504.