Phonetic pitch movements of accentual phrases in Korean read speech
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The minor prosodic unit in Korean language, generally called an Accentual Phrase, is usually defined by its syntactic or phonological characteristics. This article looks at the correlation between phonetic pitch movements and accentual phrase boundaries using a technique of pattern extraction and prediction by a probabilistic grammar.
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