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Chapter 5. Design and annotation of two-level utterance units in Japanese

  • Takehiko Maruyama , Yasuharu Den und Hanae Koiso
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In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language
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Abstract

We introduce an annotation scheme of two-level utterance units in Japanese speech, thus identifying utterance units in two different levels, which are called “short utterance-unit” (SUU) and “long utterance-unit” (LUU). SUUs are divided by acoustic and prosodic boundaries, corresponding to Intonation Units (Chafe, 1994), considered as basic units of speakers’ planning. LUUs, on the other hand, correspond to Clausal Units (Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad, & Finegan, 1999), being divided by major syntactic breaks and/or communicative interactions. Those are basic units of syntactic chunks and/or participants’ interaction. We show a design of SUU and LUU consisting of prosodic, clausal and non-clausal units. Annotating SUU and LUU in 12 dialogs of two hours altogether, we examine their characteristics and distribution in the corpus.

Abstract

We introduce an annotation scheme of two-level utterance units in Japanese speech, thus identifying utterance units in two different levels, which are called “short utterance-unit” (SUU) and “long utterance-unit” (LUU). SUUs are divided by acoustic and prosodic boundaries, corresponding to Intonation Units (Chafe, 1994), considered as basic units of speakers’ planning. LUUs, on the other hand, correspond to Clausal Units (Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad, & Finegan, 1999), being divided by major syntactic breaks and/or communicative interactions. Those are basic units of syntactic chunks and/or participants’ interaction. We show a design of SUU and LUU consisting of prosodic, clausal and non-clausal units. Annotating SUU and LUU in 12 dialogs of two hours altogether, we examine their characteristics and distribution in the corpus.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments xi
  4. Introduction. In search of a basic unit of spoken language 1
  5. Part I
  6. Chapter 1. Russian spoken discourse 35
  7. Chapter 2. The basic unit of spoken language and the interfaces between prosody, discourse and syntax 77
  8. Chapter 3. Prosody and the organization of information in Central Pomo, a California indigenous language 107
  9. Chapter 4. Syntactic and prosodic segmentation in spoken French 127
  10. Chapter 5. Design and annotation of two-level utterance units in Japanese 155
  11. Chapter 6. The pragmatic analysis of speech and its illocutionary classification according to the Language into Act Theory 181
  12. Chapter 7. Illocution as a unit of reference for spontaneous speech 221
  13. Chapter 8. Narrative discourse segmentation in clinical linguistics 257
  14. Chapter 9. Cross-linguistic comparison of automatic detection of speech breaks in read and narrated speech in four languages 285
  15. Part II
  16. Same texts, different approaches to segmentation 303
  17. Chapter 1. Segmentation and analysis of the two English excerpts 309
  18. Chapter 2. Analysis of two English spontaneous speech examples with the dependency incremental prosodic structure model 327
  19. Chapter 3. Applying criteria of spontaneous Hebrew speech segmentation to English 337
  20. Chapter 4. Basic units of speech segmentation 349
  21. Chapter 5. Segmentation of the English texts Navy and Hearts with SUU and LUU 359
  22. Chapter 6. The Moscow approach to local discourse structure 367
  23. Chapter 7. Some notes on the Hearts and Navy excerpts according to the Language into Act Theory 383
  24. Chapter 8. Comparing annotations for the prosodic segmentation of spontaneous speech 403
  25. Index 433
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.94.05mar

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments xi
  4. Introduction. In search of a basic unit of spoken language 1
  5. Part I
  6. Chapter 1. Russian spoken discourse 35
  7. Chapter 2. The basic unit of spoken language and the interfaces between prosody, discourse and syntax 77
  8. Chapter 3. Prosody and the organization of information in Central Pomo, a California indigenous language 107
  9. Chapter 4. Syntactic and prosodic segmentation in spoken French 127
  10. Chapter 5. Design and annotation of two-level utterance units in Japanese 155
  11. Chapter 6. The pragmatic analysis of speech and its illocutionary classification according to the Language into Act Theory 181
  12. Chapter 7. Illocution as a unit of reference for spontaneous speech 221
  13. Chapter 8. Narrative discourse segmentation in clinical linguistics 257
  14. Chapter 9. Cross-linguistic comparison of automatic detection of speech breaks in read and narrated speech in four languages 285
  15. Part II
  16. Same texts, different approaches to segmentation 303
  17. Chapter 1. Segmentation and analysis of the two English excerpts 309
  18. Chapter 2. Analysis of two English spontaneous speech examples with the dependency incremental prosodic structure model 327
  19. Chapter 3. Applying criteria of spontaneous Hebrew speech segmentation to English 337
  20. Chapter 4. Basic units of speech segmentation 349
  21. Chapter 5. Segmentation of the English texts Navy and Hearts with SUU and LUU 359
  22. Chapter 6. The Moscow approach to local discourse structure 367
  23. Chapter 7. Some notes on the Hearts and Navy excerpts according to the Language into Act Theory 383
  24. Chapter 8. Comparing annotations for the prosodic segmentation of spontaneous speech 403
  25. Index 433
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