NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Ouyang, Iris Chuoying – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This dissertation aims to extend our knowledge of prosody--in particular, what kinds of information may be conveyed through prosody, which prosodic dimensions may be used to convey them, and how individual speakers differ from one another in how they use prosody. Four production studies were conducted to examine how various factors interact with…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Role, Oral Language
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Swerts, Marc; van Wijk, Carel – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Tennis scores represent a natural language domain that offers the unique opportunity to study the effects of discourse constraints on prosody with strict control over syntactic and lexical variation. This study analyzed a set of tennis scores, such as "30-15," from live recordings of several Wimbledon and Davis Cup matches. The objective was to…
Descriptors: Racquet Sports, Natural Language Processing, Scores, Language Usage