Presentation 2002/4/19
Influence of context and word order in the identification of focal prominence in Japanese dialogue
Tatsuya KITAMURA, Kayo ITOH, Toshihiko ITOH, Shigeyoshi KITAZAWA,
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Abstract(in English) This paper studies the influence of prosodic features, context, and word order on the identification of focused clauses in Japanese dialogue, using a psychoacoustic experiment. In the experiment, question and answer speech was used as stimuli. The questions were to create two different contexts in the stimuli, and the answers had focal prominence at different clauses and had different word orders. The experimental results indicate that (1) prosodic characteristics are more significant for focus identification, (2) context has some effect on identification, and (3) it is probable that the word order has some effect on identification.
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Keyword(in English) focal prominence / contexts / word order / prosodic features
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Title (in English) Influence of context and word order in the identification of focal prominence in Japanese dialogue
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Keyword(1) focal prominence
Keyword(2) contexts
Keyword(3) word order
Keyword(4) prosodic features
1st Author's Name Tatsuya KITAMURA
1st Author's Affiliation Faculty of Information, Shizuoka University()
2nd Author's Name Kayo ITOH
2nd Author's Affiliation Faculty of Information, Shizuoka University
3rd Author's Name Toshihiko ITOH
3rd Author's Affiliation Faculty of Information, Shizuoka University
4th Author's Name Shigeyoshi KITAZAWA
4th Author's Affiliation Faculty of Information, Shizuoka University
Date 2002/4/19
Paper # EA2002-17
Volume (vol) vol.102
Number (no) 33
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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