Re: CHAT: Intonation surrogates in online text
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 9, 1999, 6:10 |
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On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Charles wrote:
> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>
> AFMC, I have discovered the intonation patterns
> (imagine a nice HTML table) below:
>
> Supra-segmental ..... Spoken Sound ....... Written As
>
> word separator ...... long vowel ......... a space " "
>
> phrase boundary ..... distinct pause ..... a comma ","
>
> sentence boundary ... long pause ......... commas ",,"
>
> proper name ......... medium-high tone ... Capitalized
>
> word emphasis ...... quite-high tone .... *asterisked*
>
Which is the vowel that separates words? Or is that dependent
on the vowels of the words to be separated?
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt