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

Local and Global Prosodic Cues to Discourse Organization in Dialogues

Ronald Geluykens, Marc Swerts

Institute for Perception Research (IPO), Eindhoven, The Netherlands

It is experimentally investigated to what extent speakers use prosody to signal topic- and turn-boundaries non-ambiguously to a listener. Results show that local and global melodic features are employed to structure both information and interaction.

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Bibliographic reference.  Geluykens, Ronald / Swerts, Marc (1993): "Local and global prosodic cues to discourse organization in dialogues", In Prosody-1993, 108-111.