The work reported here focuses on the use of rela- tive duration of phonetic segments in the assignment of syntactic structure, assuming a known word sequence.

We describe the modification of a grammar to take advantage of prosodic information automatically extracted from speech. The work includes (1) the ...

The use of relative duration in syntactic disambiguation. Patti J. Price, C. W. Wightman, Mari Ostendorf, John Bear. We describe the modification of a grammar ...

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Jul 27, 2021 · We found that participants exhibited two distinct processing preferences: a semantically driven preference to assign agency to referents of ...

In a set of experiments involving 35 pairs of phonetically similar sentences representing seven types of structural contrasts, the perceptual evidence shows ...

What we want is that in contexts (7) and (8) the subordinating conjunction reading be selected, in contexts (9) and (10) the relative pronoun reading, while in ...

Abstract. Experiments have shown that prosody is used by human listeners to disambiguate spoken language and, in particular, that the relative size and location ...

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Prosody is used by human listeners to disambiguate spoken language and, in particular, the relative size and location of prosodic phrase boundaries provides an ...