A comparison between syntactic and prosodic phrasing
Marcus L. Fach · 1999
This study presents a comparison between syntactic and prosodic phrasing. A parser is used to calculate the syntactic structures from the orthographic text the prosodic structures of which are given by means of ToBI label files. For the automatic evaluation the prosodic break indices "3" (intermediate phrase boundary) and "4" (intonation phrase boundary) are compared with the terminals extracted from the extensive syntactic structures generated by the parser. These terminals are assumed to be the carriers of the phrase boundaries. Keywords: syntax, parsing, prosody, phrase boundaries, prosodic labelling. 1. INTRODUCTION This study aims to show that there is a strong correspondence between syntactic phrasing and prosodic phrasing. It is based on the comparison of ToBI-labelled break indices and the output of a parser. There has been a lot of discussion about the correspondence between syntactic and prosodic phrasing ([9], [10], [11], [13]). Most of the criticism concerns syntactic ana...