Production and Perception of Pauses a in Read and Spontaneous Sp
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We investigate the relationship between prosodic phrase boundaries in terms of pausing and the linguistic structure on morpho-syntactic and discourse levels in spontaneous dialogues as well as in read aloud speech in Swedish. Both the speakers’ production and the listeners’ perception of pausing are considered and mapped to the linguistic structure.
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Production and perception of pauses and their linguistic context in read and spontaneous speech in Swedish
We investigate the relationship between prosodic phrase boundaries in terms of pausing and the linguistic structure on morphosyntactic and discourse levels in spontaneous dialogues as well as in read aloud speech in Swedish. Both the speakers’ production and the listeners’ perception of pausing are considered and mapped to the linguistic structure.
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