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Prosodic prompts and information planning units in continuous speech — Relative allocation and compensation of prosodic highlight

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Chen, Helen Kai-Yun Fang, Wei-Te Tseng, Chiu-Yu
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Based on the assumption that prosodic highlight allocation in continuous speech directly reflects speakers' information planning, this study explores perception-based prominences for indexing key information [KEY], as well as cuing the upcoming key information, namely projector [PJR] with its trajectory of projection [PJN], functioning to indicate information planning regardless of the new-vs-old status. By defining both [KEY] and [PJR]-[PJN] as basic units of information planning, the study focuses on the allocation of and compensations between both units in continuous speech of diverse genres, and makes clear the significance of advanced prosodic prompting in relation to information planning. On the one hand, by calculating emphasis density throughout the trajectory of both units, a consistent pattern of heavy-to-light information loading from the beginning of the trajectory is identified. On the other, through distributions at higher-level discourse prosodic units, we test the hypothesis of the correlation between the location of both units and their trajectory size. Specifically, the results confirm that the larger the [PJR]-[PJN] size, the earlier positioned the beginning and later the ending of the unit would be at the breath-group (BG) level. Eventually the findings contribute to a comprehensive account for the mechanism behind information planning in continuous speech via the relative allocation and compensation between the two major information planning units.
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Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/eip/FILES/publish/2016.09.26.370790.519281.pdf
Language	English
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Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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