The development of a disfluency-robust speech parser requires some insight into where disfluencies occur in spontaneous spoken language. This corpus study deals with one syntactic variable which is predictive of disfluency location: syntactic parallelism. A formal definition of syntactic parallelism is used to show that syntactic parallelism is indeed predictive of disfluency.
Cite as: Cooper, A.A., Hale, J.T. (2005) Promotion of disfluency in syntactic parallelism. Proc. Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2005), 59-63
@inproceedings{cooper05_diss,
author={Andrew A. Cooper and John T. Hale},
title={{Promotion of disfluency in syntactic parallelism}},
year=2005,
booktitle={Proc. Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2005)},
pages={59--63}
}