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An Empirical Analysis of the Correlation of Syntax and Prosody

  • The relation of syntax and prosody (the syntax-prosody interface) has been an active area of research, mostly in linguistics and typically studied under controlled conditions. More recently, prosody has also been successfully used in the data-based training of syntax parsers. However, there is a gap between the controlled and detailed study of the individual effects between syntax and prosody and the large-scale application of prosody in syntactic parsing with only a shallow analysis of the respective influences. In this paper, we close the gap by investigating the significance of correlations of prosodic realization with specific syntactic functions using linear mixed effects models in a very large corpus of read-out German encyclopedic texts. Using this corpus, we are able to analyze prosodic structuring performed by a diverse set of speakers while they try to optimize factual content delivery. After normalization by speaker, we obtain significant effects, e.g. confirming that the subject function, as compared to the object function, has a positive effect on pitch and duration of a word, but a negative effect on loudness.

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Author:Arne Köhn, Timo BaumannORCiDGND, Oskar Dörfler
DOI:https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2018-2530
Parent Title (English):Proceedings of Interspeech 2018, 02.-06.09.2018, Hyderabad
Document Type:conference proceeding (article)
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2018
Release Date:2022/06/27
Tag:corpus-based analysis; linear mixed effects models; prosody; syntax
First Page:2157
Last Page:2161
Institutes:Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik
Begutachtungsstatus:peer-reviewed
Publication:Externe Publikationen
research focus:Information und Kommunikation
Licence (German):Keine Lizenz - Es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht: § 53 UrhG