ESCA Workshop on Prosody Lund, Sweden September 27-29, 1993

Studies of Intonation and Discourse

Julia Hirschberg

AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA

Research on intonation and discourse falls into two major categories: work on the intonational correlates of discourse structure and work on accent and information status. In both categories, problems of specifying an adequate and independently motivated discourse model hinder evaluation of results and generalization across experiments. Also, much work remains to be done on combining these results into general models capturing the mapping between intonational features and discourse features.

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Bibliographic reference.  Hirschberg, Julia (1993): "Studies of intonation and discourse", In Prosody-1993, 90-95.