Exploring acoustic and syntactic cues to prosodic boundaries in French: A multi-genre corpus study
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This paper investigates the way prosody and syntactic structure combine in the perception of prosodic boundaries in French. Based on a 3.5-hour balanced corpus, we first analyse the distribution of boundary types across genres, and then examine the acoustic correlates of prosodic boundaries their relationship to linguistic features (part-of-speech categories and syntactic clauses).
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