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The Role of Pause Occurrence and Pause Duration in the Signaling of Narrative Structure

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This paper addresses the prosodic feature of pause and its distribution in spontaneous narrative in relation to the role it plays in signaling narrative structure. Pause duration and pause occurrence were taken as variables for the present analysis. The results indicate that both variables consistently mark narrative section boundaries, suggesting thus that pause is a very important structuring device in oral narratives.

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  1. Institute de Linguística Teórica e Computacional (ILTEC), Lisboa, 1550-109, Portugal

    Miguel Oliveira

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  1. Universidade de Lisboa e CAUTL (IST), Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

    Elisabete Ranchhod

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    Nuno J. Mamede

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Oliveira, M. (2002). The Role of Pause Occurrence and Pause Duration in the Signaling of Narrative Structure. In: Ranchhod, E., Mamede, N.J. (eds) Advances in Natural Language Processing. PorTAL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2389. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45433-0_7

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