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We propose in this paper an implementation of the Prague School’s TFA (Topic-Focus Articulation) algorithm to support the Romanian prosody design, relying on the experience with FDG (Functional Dependency Grammar) and SCD (Segmentation-Cohesion-Dependency) parsing strategies for the classical, i.e. predication-driven, but Information Structure (IS) non-dependent, syntax. As contributions worth to be mentioned are: (a) Outlining the functional and hierarchical organization of linguistic markers and structures within SCD and FDG local-global parsing, on both sides of the syntax-prosody interface of Romanian. (b) Pointing out the relationship between classical (IS-free) syntactic structures, IS (topic-focus, communicative dynamism) depending textual spans, and the corresponding prosodic intonational units. (c) Adapting andimplementing the TFA algorithm for the first time to Romanian prosodic structures, to be continued with TFA sentence-level refinements, its rhetorical-level extension, and embedding into local-global linking algorithms.
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Curteanu, N., Trandabăţ, D., Moruz, M.A. (2007). Topic-Focus Articulation Algorithm on the Syntax-Prosody Interface of Romanian. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4629. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74628-7_67
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