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The linguistic description of the intonation systems of different languages, like that of any other aspect of language, can be thought of as a rather indirect process of extracting linguistic information from measurable physical data. As has long been known, there is no automatic technique for performing this operation. As Chomsky (1964) has pointed out, there is no general ‘discovery procedure’ we can appeal to.
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Hirst, D., Di Cristo, A., Espesser, R. (2000). Levels of Representation and Levels of Analysis for the Description of Intonation Systems. In: Horne, M. (eds) Prosody: Theory and Experiment. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9413-4_4
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