The annotation of information structure in spoken Chinese: a pilot study
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2022/13/0012/000554Keywords:
Information Structure, Speech Segmentation, ChineseAbstract
The paper sketches a pilot study aimed at verifying the consistency of the Language into Act Theory principles and tagging methodology for the annotation of Chinese speech. The pilot confirms both the correspondence between Prosodic Units and Information Units foreseen in this theory and the applicability of its tag set to Chinese speech.
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