A Prosodic Analysis of Discourse Segments in Direction-Giving Monologues

This paper reports on corpus-based research into the relationship between intonational variation and discourse structure. We examine the effects of speaking style (read versus spontaneous) and of discourse segmentation method (text-alone versus text-and-speech) on the nature of this relationship. We also compare the acoustic-prosodic features of initial, medial, and final utterances in a discourse segment.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Julia Hirschberg, Christine H. Nakatani
• Keywords: ACL 1996, ACL 2007, Discourse Segmentation Method, Discourse Structure, Text-alone Versus Text-and-speech