Surface Structure, Intonation, and Meaning in Spoken Language
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The paper briefly reviews a theory of intonational prosody and its relation syntax, and to certain oppositions of discourse meaning that have variously been called "topic and comment", "theme and rheme", "given and new", or "presupposition and focus". The theory, which is based on Combinatory Categorial Grammar, is presented in full elsewhere. the present paper examines its consequences for the automatic synthesis and analysis of speech. Comments University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MSCIS-91-12. This technical report is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/cis_reports/389 Surface Structure, Intonation, And Meaning In Spoken Language MS-CIS-91-12 LINC LAB 193
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