| Rapp, S. (1996). Goethe for Prosody. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing , Philadelphia. |
....theories on this basis with slight modification, any approach may cover the central data. So, one has to rely on conceptual arguments in the first place. 1 Speech corpora are becoming available in growing number and size, easily accessable through automatical text alignment, cf. e.g. Rapp (1995, 1996). However, once one candidate theory has been chosen, this has to undergo empirical testing. Controlled experiments may have to complement corpus studies, since the factors influencing prosody are so numerous and still poorly understood. 7.2 Summary In this thesis, I investigated the role ....
Rapp, S. (1996). Goethe for Prosody. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing , Philadelphia.
....prosody, requires lots of data and explicit theories of discourse and of prosody to generalize over this data. In our project data has been recorded mainly from Digital Radio [Deutschlandfunk, 32 Khz, 16 bit, digital broadcast] and from commercially available literature readings in CD quality [1]. In order to process hours of data computational tools have been developed which allow for the automatic labelling and processing of prosody. 2 On the theoretical side explicit linguistic theories of dynamic semantics have been used in case of our project the choice fell on DRT (Discourse ....
S. Rapp, "Goethe for Prosody", Proc. ICSLP 96, pp. 1636-1639, Philadelphia, 1996.
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