| Presentation | 1995/7/21 A Phonological Study on Japanese Discourse Markers Masahito Kawamori, Tekeshi Kawabata, Akira Shimazu, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Every Japanese dialogue is full of such features as interjectory responses, disfluencies, overlapping, and sentence final particles, which are not part of its written counterpart. Many interjectory expressions, called discourse markers, are also regarded as one of the features of naturally occurring discourse. It is a recognized fact that the analysis of these expressions constitutes an integral part of work designed for constructing a truly helpful dialogue model. Understanding spoken discourse necessitates a model that can treat not only grammatically well-formed sentences but also dialogues containing these discourse markers. In this, phonological and phonetic models are indispensable, for dialogues are naturally spoken. This article is an investigation into the phonological system of Japanese intonation, with particular emphasis on discourse markers. Using this system, we analyze the intonational characteristics of some of the Japanese discourse markers, an analysis that has lead to some interesting observations. Our system is based on the theory of Pierrehumbert et al. but is an extensive modification on the original theory. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Dialogue understanding / discourse marker / intonation / phonology |
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| Committee | NLC |
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| Conference Date | 1995/7/21(1days) |
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| Registration To | Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication (NLC) |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | A Phonological Study on Japanese Discourse Markers |
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| Keyword(1) | Dialogue understanding |
| Keyword(2) | discourse marker |
| Keyword(3) | intonation |
| Keyword(4) | phonology |
| 1st Author's Name | Masahito Kawamori |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | NTT Basic Research Laboratories() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Tekeshi Kawabata |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | NTT Basic Research Laboratories |
| 3rd Author's Name | Akira Shimazu |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | NTT Basic Research Laboratories |
| Date | 1995/7/21 |
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| Volume (vol) | vol.95 |
| Number (no) | 169 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 8 |
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