Abstract
Most of the speech that speakers produce and listeners hear is spontaneous, and intended for the purpose of communicating. Apart from the occasional monologue, or the mutterings of a deranged passerby, the greater part of the speech we experience assumes the availability of a listener. Speakers use prosodic means (among others) to communicate to listeners the structure of the message that they wish to impart.
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Cutler, A. (1997). Introduction to Part II. In: Sagisaka, Y., Campbell, N., Higuchi, N. (eds) Computing Prosody. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2258-3_5
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